Yeah, I've seen a white one (in habitat)....however, your small population leads to inbreeding....and recessive genes express this way....so you got it ;)

Inbreeding? Sounds awful. There I was all excited thinking I had some special naturally occurring clone or event and now I'm let down. I wouldn't have thought I would but I like the white better in my own little urban prairie.

They look better growing in the wild on that harsh, inhospitable looking slope on wantanamara's land by Austin. She sent me a photo and that nearly barren landscape looked positively bizarre. Maybe she'll post it here, I'd like to see it again. There were some nice clump grasses too.

Yeah, they were absolutely fascinating and I required my friend to stop and let me walk 1/4 mile back to where there was a large outcropping of them. They look very out of place in the landscape where they're native...and so look that much more impressive.

Those are so cool looking. Gee, I've had 3 GW names in all, now I'm wondering who I was back then?

I'm going to take another picture of the 'Mountain White' when its fully blooming. Its in an odd spot because I never scatter the seeds up there close to the house but there's a pink one growing in a crack between the front porch and and the sidewalk with a baby next to it close to the white one.

When the tops dry out I cut them off and put rocks over the stems so they don't blow away and plant them in that sandy soil where the yard slopes down toward the sidewalk between the yard and the hell strip. All those hundreds of seeds and I never have more than a few plants each year. I'm wondering if the white one will produce white offspring?

If it's standard simple genetics, you'll get 25% white offspring, 25% pure pink offspring, and 50% mixed (which when bred together would have possibility of white too).

We get a lot fewer than 25% white in the population by me. We do get variation but very few whites.

Seeing that natural habitat I have to say that even though I love the plant, in a situation such as mine with prairie natives it just doesn't have the same WOW! impact because it becomes just another plant among others. Its that sparse, spaced out barren look with unexpected feminine looking pink bouquets standing along the hill as if dressed for a wedding that is so bizarre.

I'm curious how Lady Bird's successful sowing efforts along that airport runway turned out? I wonder is it still there?

They do like a area that is disturbed and bare preferably facing west, NW or SW. They do not like much competition. I also never see them coming till they bloom. They seem to appear out of nowhere very quickly. Plunked down by a some lost Texas Wedding Fairy. This year is not a very good year for them or I am spoiled by 2014. I need to drag my camera around.

The white ones are brides. The pink ones are brides maids & flower girls. I'm glad I solved that mystery, its a much more satisfactory explanation. That high school biology class scientific genetics stuff only applies to recessive genes such as blue eyes and blonde hair.

Most of my sloping screes face east.... darn it. I have one flat almost slope clearing that faces south with a 2 lonely plants last year. I should walk down there but its a long walk and hot outside.

Mine faces south. They seem to like the sandy soil and gravel. They love sidewalk cracks sitting perfectly level too. They often come up in the hell strip which is the lowest part of the yard but those usually drown in spring.

Around here I ONLY see them on slopes. Maybe that is as much about lack of competition. Maybe they come up and drown or out competed and I never se them in those positions

I was walking out front around one o'clock in the morning and noticed the white one really stands out at night but the pink ones don't at all. Anyway its the first time I noticed that the flowers close up at night, just an interesting tidbit. It would be really nice I think to have a slope with these growing along with some Tufted Evening Primrose, those like rocky slopes too.