AI or real?

this is a real photo. i know, because i photographed it this afternoon. but when i sat down just now to post it, it occurred to me it looks like an AI generated image, with the goatsbeard “photoshopped in”. but i assure, dear reader, that it is not. the open-field wildflowers are peaking. there are dots of color everywhere–with purple, yellow, and orange in highest abundance. these tonsured prairie clovers are always a happy sight for me. someone surely missed an naming opportunity–for they should certainly have been called purple monks of the prairie.

purple prairie clover with goatsbeard (Dalea purpurea)