I have mixed feelings about wildflower identification. Some I know well and enjoy and struggle to remember their ‘proper’ names. Others I take photos of and try to identify after the fact by comparing the photos to images in my wildflower guidebooks. Usually that works. But in order to make a definitive ID on some flowers, you have to dissect parts or dig up the roots. I don’t feel like it’s that important for me to make an identification … I’d rather let the plant live.