And they're inspiring. I had wondered what I was going to do with the rest of my day. Now I knew. I'd cruise crocus country. Heading east, I passed Carseland and drove on toward the Siksika Nation.
Crocuses are picky about where they grow.
They don't colonize broken land like dandelions. They like native prairie, grasslands that have been that way for the last 10,000 years. That's why they're endangered in Manitoba even though they're the provincial flower. Virtually everything there has been turned grass-side down. Their habitat has been wiped out.