Ah, yes, just went to look... great photos.
here are some more of the wild ;-) flowers I found yesterday
LOL Hadn't heard that one Blooms. Very cute :-). I personally would call them "dirty knees" flowers. ;-) Snapping shots of wildflowers sure isn't for someone who actually cares what their clothes look like ROTFL. I often shoot flowers on the way to pick up the kids from school....so I sometimes wonder what the other mothers think about my camera in hand and messy clothes. They all think I'm weird anyway though for enjoying work in the garden ;-)
-Julie
Well, to each their own of course, but personally I think you're the one who has per priorities straight! lol
I always enjoy people from Great Britain because eccentricity is more acceptable to them than in the USA. Must be that prim pilgrim start we had. People have often tried to make me feel odd, but even as a child I knew they were missing out and I was having lots of fun, albeit odd fun. I just found a folder called wild flowers that i took a few years ago. here are a few-I was traveling through VA, MD, PA, DE.
That was bloodroot. Here's a monkeyflower.
Don't know what this is.
Some kind of Phlox.
Spring beauty.
Another unknown.
Violas.
And trout lily.
Boojum, that bright red flower is either Royal Catchfly(Silene Regia, becoming increasingly rare) or a Fire Pink(Silene "something or other"). The little white flower with the bloom cluster and the serrated leaf edges is Toothwort of some sort (Cardemine Concatenata?), and a member of the mustard family. Enjoy them, they're beauties! Great pics, too! April
Thanks, dodecatheon!! Just got my book out and I think it's a fire pink. And I think the pink one may be a wild pink and not phlox. The white looks like a cut-leaved toothwort. the violet is a birdfoot violet. And here's the bicolored form. Sure helped to get the families. I think I'll change the jpeg names to remember. Thanks again.
Here's one we can work on. Don't think the leaves are showing.
Here's a large-flowered trillium.
Here's a monkey-flower. Could be square-stemmed or sharp-winged. Most likely the sharp-winged because itwas not very tall.
Boojum,
I think the first violet and the second are 2 different types of violet. I don't know, the flowers look really different to me. Are the leaves different from each other?
Are the petals of the yellow flower shiny? Just looking at the flower, I'm thinking it's ranunculus ficaria, and it's very invasive. Endemic to Europe. I was given some plants from this family a few years ago....and it tried to take over. I still have a few big plants to dig up and put on the compost pile this spring. It is very pretty, though. April
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/rafi1.htm
Boojum, may I gently suggest you start a new thread for your pics? This thread is about Israeli flowers and many people may not get the chance to see your flowers if they don't read this thread. That would be a shame.
-Julie
Oops. I thought the theme was spring wildflowers. Sorry I messed up. I don't have any more and nothing's blooming here so I sure would like to see what you are seeing!! Please post more, Julie!
I thought it was about spring wildflowers, too! Sorry! april