Native Plants found in the Wild.

Picante, that is a gorgeous flower, but if you found it growing wild, it is more likely to be Pulsatilla pattens
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PUPA5
Pulsatilla vulgaris is native to Europe
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch
or maybe I am mistaken and Pulsatilla vulgaris grows wild in your area
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Pulsatilla+vulgaris
I guess I am confused now.
Josephine.

Picante, regardless of what it is, it's a gorgeous flower and that's a wonderful photo! Josephine, that grass is one of my favorite native grasses. Have you ever heard of Grasses of the Hill Country? I just looked it up in that book to make sure it was the same one I call Scribner's Panicum.

Hello Linda, yes it is also called Panicum oligosanthes, I think it is synonym.
These names and synonyms are very confusing.
Was it the same one in your book?

Some kind of pulsatilla, I guess. It is beautiful and a great picture!

I agree, it is beautiful and a great picture, I just wanted to know which one it is, and I hope I didn't upset Picante by asking, and if I did I apologize.
Josephine.

Yes, Josephine, it had the same botanical name and they used the same common name you had, but mentioned Scribner's Panicum as another name for it. When I was doing the surveys to ID forbs and grasses at Cibolo Nature Center (Boerne, Texas) years ago, that was one of the grasses they taught us. For the most part, grasses were the most difficult plants I ever tried to ID.

I agree, I don't do well with them either, but this one was identified by the nature walk leader, I thought the colors were so pretty.

Josephine, quite likely you are right, as I found it listed as Pulsatilla patens for a photo taken in Yellowstone. That's our ecosystem. The photo was taken in the National Forest.
I planted Pulsatilla vulgaris in the garden, thinking it was our native pasque flower!

Well, no matter what, I think they are beautiful and I wish we had those around here.
I have never seen an actual one. You are very lucky.

This is another very neat plant Woolly White, Hymenopappus scabiosaeus
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/75459/
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=HYSC
I found this one on a nature walk in January the plant rosette.

Here are a few photos from the summer of 2006.

First Iliamna rivularis in Elko County, Nevada.

Next is Calochortus nutallii in White Pine County, Nevada.

And Linum lewisii, Alpine County California.

oops!

Aconitum columbianum, White Pine County Nevada

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Ipomopsis aggregata in Elko County.

Cirsium subniveum, Nye County Nevada.

And finally Allium validum in Mono County California.

They are all so beautiful Katlian & all are new to me. Really lovely!

Gorgeous flowers indeed !!!

Nice pictures!

Thanks, it's easy to get a few good flower pictures when you get paid to drive around looking at plants all day.

What?!!!!! I want your job Katlian, or one like it where I live!!!
:-)

Really! who do you wok for?

I used to work for the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest as a botanist, now I'm the wetland ecologist for the Nevada Natural Heritage Program. Both are fun jobs that require(d) me to drive around the remote areas of the state and look at plants. Now that spring is here, I get to work outside soon, yeah!

Wow! that is very exciting, great job to have.

That is fabulous Katlian. If I had only known I would have taken more science & less Shakespeare. :-)

I agree, that's a wonderful job!

Navajo Tea, Thelesperma simplicifolium
I looked it up in NPIN, but they had 2 or 3 pics that weren't this species. I guess whoever verifies the pics submitted dropped the ball. They're just starting to bloom now around here. The leaves are extremely threadlike.
http://www.adamlong.com/flowerpics/NavajoTea.html

Very neat Linda.

What a sight this was along a local road! It's a tall species of Ceanothus, not sure which.

It is very pretty!

And I believe this one is Prairie Paintbrush, Castilleja purpurea var. Lindheimeri. A bit different from Texas Paintbrush.

I really like blue flowers! Blue Gilia, Gilia rigidula var. rigidula...the flowers don't open until late in the afternoon.

Nice pictures. Love the Blue Gilia!

Quote: I really like blue flowers! Blue Gilia, Gilia rigidula var. rigidula...the flowers don't open until late in the afternoon.

Now Frostweed that is what we need to plant with our dayflowers so we could have pretty blooms all day!

You are right Charlene, I don't think the Blue Gilia is as easy to find as the dayflower, but it would be really nice.

I have found several of these wild roses growing on my place. They are climbers and oh so fragrant. I am not certain, but I think they are the Cherokee Rose. They may be smaller than the Cherokee rose, if anyone knows let me know.

Charlene

Charlene, I wonder if what you have might be Dewberry, Rubus trivialis, the flowers look like a simple rose because they are of the rose family. Check this out;
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=RUTR
Of course I could be mistaken.
Josephine.

This is toothwort, Cardemine concatenata. This colony was growing in moss on top of a huge rock(8' tall at least). I zoomed in for the photo.I wish I had taken a normal one so you could see Ihow big it was.
http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H32.htm