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Click for fullsize picture. Wild Purple daisies in some rocks along a stream in Northern California. A field of Yellow wildflowers in Texarkana, Texas Poppies in their prime. Poppy. Sunflower close up look Field of Camassia and Oak trees Pincushion at Mesa Verde Rabbit Brush Mesa Verde Asclepias incarnata - Red Milkweed - Nippersink Creek in the background - on our property in Hebron, IL Mealy Blue Sage and Plains Coreopsis Plains coreopsis Bachelor Button Wildflowers on my slope, side view. Wildflowers on my slope, front view. Wildflowers, Rocky Mountain National Park. Red trillium, Feura Bush, New York. A nodding thistle flower bud about to open in Plano, Texas Clasping-leaved haplopappus flower buds about to open in Plano, Texas Spring's first wildflower, peeking through the leaves. Taraxacum officinale - a lion in every lawn The bud of a wild aster. Photo taken at Sandy Knoll Park September 2010 Wendy Chapman This Queen Anne's Lace is a favorite of mine. Meadow rue Tall American Bellflower Tiny flowers growing in the cracks of a stone wall May wildflowers, Colmenarejo, Spain Canada Lily, Lac Le Jeune Prov. Pk., BC, Can. Wild Daisies and Flax blowing in the breeze. Jimson Weed (Datura stramonium) Pretty poison St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) Botanically, the picture could be a lot better. But the bee knocked my socks off. Small pleasures. Camomile. Poppy near my house. We only know them as "Puffballs" The spring desert has colorful surprises everywhere! Desert gold.... Thousands of Bloodroot in our woods. A carpet of white in the spring. Fleabane at the edge of a pond. Honeysuckle. I know I got many things from my mom and this is one of them... My dad and she drove to Texas and she made my dad stop the car so she could dig this out of a ditch and bring it to me- I've done the same thing! :) This is near the Antelope Valley Poppy reserve in Lancaster California. It was yellow on one side of the street and on the other was a sea of orange, mixed with purple. Spring is too brief in the high desert. This is the area in my yard with Orange and Yellow cosmos. Have thousands. Love that they multiply with the falling of the seeds. I also collect thousands of seeds to share. I have some in another area of my yard that is between 4 and 5 feet tall. Love them all summer and still into the early fall Wild iris at Pt Reyes CA Wildflowers at Pt. Reyes, CA Daisy, old fashioned, makes you smile kind of flower! One April this poppy, growing along a pathway, was found and photographed in the garden...a poppy butterfly. grows in the garden every year Thistle Silhouette Unknown orchid in the tropics This beautiful red clover suddenly appeared in my garden! Spiderwort Liatris on the prairie Lonicera ciliosa - our native honeysuckle While searching for Blue Bonnets in Texas I came across this beautiful Grape Hyacinth. "Blanket Flower" - Gaillardia pulchella, growing wild at Merritt Island Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, August 2010 Growing towards the sun from under a deck Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) on our yard. Purple coneflowers. Wild cardinal flowers growing in the woods. Borago Phlox wearing a hat of lily buds. Chrysanthemum coronarium Mexican hat (Ratibida columnifera) Native plant. Common name refers to resemblance of a sombrero. Colorful perennial wildflower always welcomed in my garden. These pink wood sorrels covered my friends ranch in the fall after a summer of nice rains Hinkley yellow columbine grows wild in the Big Bend area of Texas A beautiful native plant. Swamp sunflowers against a background of rough-stemmed asters add a bright finale to summer. They bloom in early November in New York. Wildflowers by the side of a country road in Texas. Silphium perfoliatum a magnet for Eastern Tigers. Maximillian Sunflower at night. Southwest Austin, TX, October 2010 Growing by the side of the road in Oregon Oregon roadside flowers Winter Aconite. This charming plant blooms in February here in S. Central Pa, zone 6b. Tulipa species. Comes up in Spring, very charming, S. Central Pa, zone 6b. Wildflowers in the desert around Phoenix, Arizona Closeup of Aquilegia canadensis, the Eastern red columbine, wild columbine, red columbine or native columbine, depending on where you live. love the colors Bluebells and Single Track Photo: Every April when the Virginia Bluebells are at their peak, I like to take a walk at the park with my camera. Rudbeckia Trio Trumpet Honeysuckle Sore eye poppy Black-eyed Susans cover our roadsides. Prickly Poppy roadside stand Dakota Mock Vervain, Great Plains Verbena, Prairie Verbena (Glandularia bipinnatifida) growing among other wildflowers. Curvepod Fumewort, Scrambled Eggs (Corydalis curvisiliqua) makes a beautiful showing in very early spring. This Mexican Hat wildflower was photographed at Brazos Bend State Park in Needville, Texas in June, 2007. gaillardia (Indian blanket) apios americana (nutvine) Carolina Jasmine. Just looking at the photo brings back memories of their incredible fragrance; to me, a mix between anise and bubble gum. This huge group of vines drapes over my orchid bench, providing shade throughout the summer. A cypress vine climbing in the bougainvillea bush. Wildflower found in the pasture area in the plains East of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. I'm not certain but I think this may be Copper Mallow. Found in the pasture in Colorado in the plains area East of the Rockies approx. 7000 feet in elevation. I think this is Western Spiderwort. A spotted jewelweed blossom by the riverbank. Brazilian Verbena (Verbena bonariensis). Highly attractive to butterflies. Bush's Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe bushii) Chicory found on my annual fall-photography tour. On my annual fall-photography tour I discovered many wild Asters. Tastes so fine....Elderberry wine Skunk Cabbage in Olympic National Rain Forest, Washington State Trillium, Olympic National Rain Forest. '......a WEED by any other name...." Queen Anne's Lace California Pipevine by Kim Chacon Castilleja by Kim Chacon Lemmon's catchfly (Silene lemmonii) photographed near Silver Lake (California) in the Sierras. Chapel in the midst of wild radish on a misty day. Wildflowers inside Rocky Mountain National Park. Violets Thistle in Yellowstone National Park. Beebalm and Goldenrod Little Yellow Wildflower Pussy Toes, in Deer Park, in the Olympic mountains above Port Angeles, Washington.Back to the contest main page. |
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