Now to continue.
Depford pink.
Favorite Wildflowers
A reason to keep a thistle or two
Common mullen.
Bindweed
Here is a blue one I found down by the river. I forgot what it is called. If no one knows, I will look it up.
Sure is a pretty one though.
I have a request, and please don't shoot me, but it would be good if at all possible, to include with each plant or flower a common and scientific names, and a link to learn about the plant and where it is native to. That way we learn about them, as well as admire them.
I know it is a little more work, but not hard and we all can benefit from it.
What do you all say?
Josephine.
This one I love because it is the first I see in the season. (about May 10th or so)
There are acres of these by the river. A little hard to get to, but worth the walk.
Marsh marigolds.
I don't know about links, but I can get my book out and add some more later in the week.
Got company coming, so I am done for the weekend. I will be back.
Cpartschick, it is easy to find the links, you just go to this site;
http://www.wildflower.org/explore/
and type the common or scientific name in the search bar, and it will show it to you.
This is the one for Marsh Marigold;
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAPA5
I hope i didn't upset you, I only meant to be helpful.
Josephine.
That blue one above looks like a great blue lobelia to me (Lobelia siphilitica).
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/133/
I just wanted to show you how big this Antelope Horns (Asclepias asperula) plant got....where I live we don't usually see them like this. It was growing wild in the Hill Country area of Texas last spring.
Adding link:
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/species.php?id_plant=asas
This message was edited Feb 24, 2008 8:06 AM
angele
Feb 23, 2008
Wow that is a gorgeous specimen Linda. I have seen only one or two blooms at a time!
I couldn't get the whole plant into one photo and still show how neat the blooms look like. If you look close at the lower part in the pic, you'll see a big Monarch caterpillar. As milkweeds go, this one is quite toxic and also the older foliage can get too tough for caterpillars to eat, so butterflies mainly use it when there's fresh growth...like in spring.
angele
Feb 23, 2008
:-) I see the little guy now!
Linda, that is the most amazing Antelope Horns Milkweed I have ever seen.
Josephine
Thanks for the link to the wildflower.org site!!
:)
Here is a close view of the Camassia Lily
(photo taken last spring)
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAQU2
Thank you for the picture and the link Gardenguy, it must be a wonderful sight to find a field of those, or even just a few.
Josephine.
ViburnumValley, you got the blue one. That is correct!
I think it is a great idea to add the names and links. Just got to get a little time to do it. I will edit my posts this week.
Really excited to see the wildfowers from all over the world that do not grow in our cold climate.
It allways amazes me the fantastic flowers that just grow wild, without the fuss. Like the orchids that grow wild here (lady slippers and polygala)
Did my limit of editing for today and added some info to the pictures.
Thank you, cpartschick, may I have your real name please? I would feel more comfortable calling you by your name.
Yes we will be learning a lot this way, and who knows some of your wildflowers might be native here, and vice versa, and we could possibly share seeds sometime in the future.
Josephine.
Here is another one of my favorites.
Dicentra formosa
Pacific bleeding heart, Western bleedingheart
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=DIFO
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/65143/
Not much longer and they should be breaking ground in my garden.
-Kin
Kin,
You must really have a beautiful garden. Can't wait for more pictures.
cparts
Oh, I can relate to that.
I have too much shade and it takes a couple tries sometimes to get the plant in the right spot.
The project is never done. That is what makes it so fun.
I agree with the project never being finished. The little lily is really pretty, thank you.
and if you have a chancy memory, every spring is a revelation!
Every day is new for me.
Cpartschick, I was so charmed by your little Pipsissewa flower that i looked some more to see where it is native to. It appears that it is native to a very large portion of north America, but indeed not to Texas, that is just a precious flower, I wish it grew here.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CHUM
I was surprised when I first saw it. I have been walking those woods for years and thought I had seen all it had to offer. Ha. Every year it seems I find a new flower.
They came up again last year, several plants. It is so different, I just love it.
I had sent DM the photo and she thought it was a nice painting of a flower. LOL
Yes, so many little miracles, don't you love it?
angele
Feb 27, 2008
Gosh I am loving this thread! Cpartschick I have fallen in love with your Bunchberry
(cornus canadensis). http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=COCA13 and http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1103/
I don't have the conditions it need for growing in my yard but boy if I did!!
Kin, those Bleedinghearts are just precious! That Camassia Lily sounds like the Northwest's answer to Texas' Bluebonnet, wildflower.org says: "This species is sometimes so frequent as to color entire meadows blue-violet."
I'm falling in love with so many of everyone's favorites. Thanks so much for sharing :-))))
Your welcome. Glad to share.
The bunchberry is not really very pretty, but I like how simple the flower is.
I am lucky enough to have a varied amount of woods, some swamp and some sandy areas. I get a good variety of flowers growing wild.
Poor DH has to cut wood around the wildflowers, and watch where he walks. (I have trained him well)
angele
Feb 27, 2008
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=BAMU
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1744/
I'm starting to see my sandy sunny slope in my minds eye. I can see some native Agave and Yucca with some of our incredibly long blooming native flowers. This yellow flower blooms from March - November and is very common where I live.
Baileya multiradiata - Desert Marigold: Seen here in the wild with a Phacelia I know as Scorpionweed. I love the color combination of yellow & blue/purple. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHCR
I love Desert Marigold also! I should be growing some more this year.
Wow Angele, I am going to have to come and steal some from you, that is another that grows in Texas but is not easy for me.
Josephine.
angele
Feb 27, 2008
Linda, it is a hard one not to love :-) when hardly anything else is blooming I can usually count on seeing some of the Desert Marigolds on my hikes except for just a few months in the winter. Almost as long blooming (March-October) is this plant another favorite I want to add to my home landscape
Ipomopsis longiflora - Gilia longiflora
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=IPLO2
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/81931/
it even has a hint of purple to go with the yellow
Josephine, I'm thinking it must be the sand.. do you get a lot of rain?
Well, sometimes we get too much, and at other times not enough, the weather patterns are very variable here. That is a gorgeous one too.
Josephine.
My area, in a drought, can get rainfall under 20 inches annually, in a really wet year in the mid-40's. Usually somewhere in the middle between those extremes. We slipped back into a dry spell after last summer, which was extremely wet.
This is Golden Groundsel, which is just beginning to bloom here. But I'll put a picture from last year, when it was blooming better.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PAOB6
Oh Linda, mine is about to bloom too, I have some that you gave me, and some from the wildscape. It is so pretty and practically evergreen here.