In our area, most people think wild flowers are Bluebonnets or Paintbrush. Most others are ignored.
We have several including some very tiny pink flowers. I am sending a picture of what we are calling Red-eyed Susans until we know otherwise. The stalks are very thin, the leaves are threadlike, and the seed pods look like little brown burs.
Any help is greatfully accepted.
This is a picture of the tiny pink flowers along with a Primrose for scale. There are millions of these around here. Please help!
Your first photo is a Coreopsis, possibly C. tinctoria.
Is that larger pink bloom a Primrose? We have tons of that growing "wild" around here! I got some and potted it up- so very pretty.
Thanks. I will check it out.
Trois
Mexican Evening Primrose, we always called them desert roses. They are plentiful here too.
While out in our jungle we noticed a yellow flower that resembled a sweetpea. The leaves are completely different. Any one know what they are?
Hey somebody, what ARE those tiny little pink star ones. They're delightful. I grow the pink primrose in my garden, don't have the yellow missourianas. The white ones grow all over the desert in good water years. Term good is relative.
Spent yesterday out in the end of our valley where the sego lilies and orange mallow look like someone planted the meadow. Then at the far end found some desert larkspur. The light was lousy for picture taking, a sort of all over white silk veil and two layers of clouds.
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While we are on the subject of tiny flowers, here is a picture of some ground hugging plants with orange flowers. The flowers are less than an eighth of an inch across. There are large masses of them. It's too bad they are so small because they are beautiful flowers.
Would be so pretty in a rock garden tub!
Trois, your little orange ones look like Anagallis arvensis
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=anagallis+arvensis&btnG=Search
Thanks. I will look it up.
Trois
trois, your little ornage flower is scarlet pimpernel. It spreads but is pretty. They only open when it is sunny.
Bloomswithaview, The little pink ones , to me look like Deptford pink, Dianthus armeria, they grow abunatly here. I can send you some seeds if you wish.
This little pink flower originated in Deptford ,England, now they are on their Endangered list. Any one from the UK here ?,I will send seeds for SASE after they have bloomed.
Your little pink ones may be Prairie Bluet (Hedyotis nigricans).
http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/54708/
Thanks. It has been a while.
trois
The little pink ones might be canchalagua (Centaurium venustum).
My wildflower book says, "Description: Annual, single stem branching above, not hairy, 4 to 12 inches high... Flowers: Solitary at the ends of branches; calyx in 5 segments, about 3/4 inch long; corolla at tube, flaring, 5-lobed, rose with red spots and a white throat, the tube 5/16 to 1/2 inch high, the petals 5/16 to 5/8 inch long; stamens 5. Leaves: Opposite, ovate to oblong, 3/8 to 1 inch long."
Lots of pictures here. http://images.google.com/images?q=Centaurium+venustum&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
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Thanks for the information. The tiny pink flowers I am referring to are no more than 1/8 wide. Very small. There are thousands of them in the spring, but hard to notice because they are so small. I will get some good closeup next spring. I may have one in the computer somewhere. I will look.
trois
Your little pink flowers look like pinks to me too. To tell for sure, go to enature.com and put in your zip. They'll have a guide for wild flowers native to your area.
Thanks. I will check that out.
trois
Kelli, I just found this thread, those flowers in the very first pic are BEAUTIFUL!! Did ya get any seeds?????? Hint, hint... :)
I will get some most likely in May next year. I was too late this time. There is a red centered Yellow Cosmos that is almost identical. They bloom longer. I didn't get seeds from that either. We were overwhelmed by wildflowers this year.
Well, trois, please keep me in mind, and lemme know what you mught be looking for from Zone 7b :)
Will do.
trois
You photo looks like Plains Coreopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria. It is native to Texas, just not as famous as your fabulous bluebonnets, phlox, wine cups, and paintbrush. Plains coreopsis is native all over the plains and far into the east. In fact, it was picked a few years ago as the Florida state wildflower. I live in Florida, and have seen it growing in the median grasses on the Florida Turnpike, almost to Miami! It's an annual coreopsis, and a popular species in commercial wildflower seed mixes. It is a champion reseeder, "coming back" a lot more dependably than most of the wild annuals.
Thanks. You are right.
trois
Trois,
Your sweet-pea look-alike (especially the pods) reminds me of some of the Crotalaria's I looked at while identifying onalee's C.lanceolata from Florida over in ID forum. Crotalaria species the USDA reports for Texas (somewhere in Texas) are incana, pumila, purshii, retusa, rotundifolia, sagittalis, and spectabilis. They have photos only of the last two:
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=plant_profile.cgi&symbol=CRSA4&photoID=crsa4_002_avp.tif
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=plant_profile.cgi&symbol=CRSP2&photoID=crsp2_001_avp.tif
I don't have time to Google for images of the others (there is a link to one of C.incana in onalee's thread; it has rusty/red veins in the petals) as I'm getting ready to drive to Blooms' for a couple-week visit, so have at it!
You mention "leaves nothing like sweet-pea" but then no pic of leaves! Not fair! That would help rule in or out some of the possibilities...
~'spin!~
Sorry about the leaves. I thought I had included them. Another senior moment. I intended to, therefore I did.
trois
