Some more of our Turkish delights:
Glaucium corniculatum, a spectacular horned poppy. Both it and its relative G. flavum are quite common around the Mediterranean – absolutely drought-hardy and happy in hot dry places as annuals or maybe short-lived perennials. Elsewhere its flowers are often redder in colour, but we really liked this fiery orange.
Muscari anatolicum, a Turkish endemic first described in 1994 – one of those small plants that you have to get really close to, to see how pretty it is.
Onosma frutescens, quite common around the eastern Mediterranean.
Orchis anatolica, often present in quite large numbers, the plants usually a foot or so apart from one another. The name is a bit misleading, as it's not confined to Anatolian Turkey but ranges through the eastern Mediterranean from Crete across to Iran.
Orchis coriophora, the bug orchid: we didn't see such crowds of this, which must be approaching the eastern edge of its mainly European distribution.
Orchis simia, named for the way the flowers look like little long-tailed monkeys, very widely spread in Europe and further east, though not that common.
Ornithogalum umbellatum, perhaps the commonest of all the Stars of Bethlehem, in Europe and beyond (it's become an invasive weed in parts of the US). I have no idea why it's apparently also been called Sleepy Dick or Nap at Noon as the flowers stay open all day, after opening in mid-morning – hence the rather more apt nick-name of 11 o'clock Lady.
Tulipa armena var. lycica: not one of the flowers I saw of this had escaped the attentions of small snails or slugs, this was one of the least afflicted. Flowering much more tightly down in its leaf cluster than the one in Jorun's picture, above.
Vinca herbacea: this very pale form of the periwinkle showed up much more strikingly as it sprawled through other low herbs than the usual blue flowers.