Unlike the Opuntia (prickly pear cacti) which are generally easy to see, there are very many cacti in Texas that grow close to the ground and tend to blend into the terrain. Except when they are in bloom. Then their flowers light up the landscape with vivid color. It appears almost as if there were flames coming out of the ground.
On my walk in Eisenhower Park on Wednesday, May 16, the cacti were blooming profusely amid the rocky terrain. The first two photos of the cacti with the light purple flowers are Lace Hedgehog Cactus, a.k.a. Purple Candle (Echinocereus reichenbachii). There were only a few of these scattered about. But everywhere I looked, there were the cacti with the yellow flowers: the Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha sulcata):
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