'The Crepe Myrtle'

Crepe myrtle doesn’t behave like other flowers. Its petals are crinkled and vivid, the kind of magenta that argues with the sky. Here it climbs goldenrod stems with gold beads standing in for pollen — tiny golden punctuation at the center of each blossom.

This is a Floraglyph that reads like a botanical illustration from a century ago, when artists treated flowers as worthy of the same precision as any other subject worth recording.

This Floraglyph is for the woman who finds magenta the most honest color.