"Also called Firewheel because the flower resembles a child's pinwheel, with its maroon center surrounded by an orange or red ring that, in turn, is encircled by a ring of yellow. Readily self-seeds and forms large colorful masses of flowers that blanket the ground. Many state highway departments, including the Texas Department of Transportation, plant this eye-catching flower along roads. Often grown in wildflower gardens and restored prairies, since it needs little care and the flowers last a long time."
Wildflowers of Texas Field Guide, Nora and Rick Bowers, Stan Tekiela
Also called Indian Blanket, this brilliant red and yellow flower is a bit of an obsession of mine. Back a few years ago they covered this western field of Breckinridge Park in probably the largest and most glorious display of such flowers I'd ever seen. The past few years I haven't seen as much of them in this area, but they are still to be found just north of here, along a new section of trail that inspired this series of mine.
The cache is located near where the new track of firewheels begins, and there are many other wildflowers to be seen along this happy little paved path that is surprisingly beautiful in the springtime. I have tried to provide a variety of challenges in this series, and this one is my first puzzle cache. I won't make it too difficult, though expect the final location to be a bit wild. There may be a bit of bushwhacking involved. Definitely use your bug repellant and watch out for poison plants.
The cache is located at N33 0.3AB' W96 38.2CD', where
A = GUERR
B = AAFVK
C = AMREB
D = AABAR