Here's my lady blooming. It is one of my "High Holy's"
George
Native Plants found in the Wild.
That is a stunning example!
Beautiful George, is this growing in your garden now or in the wild?
Hey bugme
it's in my wild flower garden. It was a rescue from a new home development. I also got a species lily there. I THINK it's called L. canadense. It get to about 6 foot tall and has leaves that are in a whorl up and down stem. The flower points down and is a red/orange. I have also been told it's a Carolina lily. When it blooms you experts will have to tell me what it is. It's up about 6 inches now an I have 5 of them.
I am currently working on another rescue. So far I have saved and kept or rehomed dogwood, Dutchmen britches, dogs tooth violets, multi color wild violets, cinnamon ferns, maiden hair fern, azaleas in pink, orange and yellow, rhododendron, holly, lady fern, foam flower, jack in the pulpit, red stem fern, blood root so many trillium in red and white I have lost count and the list goes on and on. We live on 100 wooded acres on the edge of Daniel Boone National forest and I am very lucky and protective of natives.
The best is a friend called and has pink lady slipper to give me. You should see his patch. There are hundreds. I will try to get a pic for us.
George
What a treasure, all those beauties so close. I've tried to sever roots of wild azaleas but it is too much for me so I just enjoy the beauty when they're blooming. Have managed to relocate one magnolia, several cinnamon ferns and a sweet shrub. We have 12-1/2 acres, most in woodlands surrounding us, so I feel free to relocate if the plant can handle it.
Purple Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja purpurea, found at Tandy Hills nature preserve.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAPU11
Powderpuff, Mimosa strigilosa, found at Tandy Hills nature preserve.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=MIST2
Those powder puff mimosa are adorable!
Yes they are they actually seem to glow, very neat plant.
Here is a field of Coreopsis at Tandy Hills, so pretty to see.
These grow in the woods here and bloom all summer and fall. I watched a hummingbird enjoying these last Fall.
I forgot to mention the name: Scarlet Calamint (Calamintha coccinea)
Nice! I never heard of those. I like plants that hummingbirds, butterflies and such like also. One of the natives on my property keeps the butterflies coming back over and over, but when I went out to take a picture, I only found these bugs. The plant is Skeleton Plant, Lygodesma texana, which is named because it doesn't have much in the way of leaves and during the summer, even those go away, leaving only stems and flowers.
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And a Texas Thistle, Cirsium texanum, which I DID catch with skippers all over it.
I love the Texas thistle too Linda, mine are not open yet, but have many buds.
I am trying the skeleton plant for the first time from seed this year, but so far not very good results.
Josephine.
Well, finally something to show you! Blue Flax.
Growing from a crack in the curb. Does that count as wild? It also grows by roadsides and in gardens here. But, it is a native plant and self sows all over the place.
Those are adorable Roybird, such lovely blue color.
Josephine.
Ooh, that should count as wild! And the flaxes are host plants for a butterfly, the Variegated Fritillary!
Glad you and the butterflies like it. We don't have quite as much around this year. Maybe because of the cold winter and dry spring. We are getting some rain now. It barely got up to 50 degrees today for a high here. Tuesday it was in the high 70's.
Hello! all
Our native orange azalea.
Native columbine. This gets really tall.
Geo
I'm not sure, but think this might be Wand Milkweed, Asclepias viridiflora. It was set back enough from the highway to avoid the periodic mowing that often damages or kills some of the roadside milkweeds.
That one sure is neat Linda, I had never seen that one.
Josephine.
Lots of lovely wildflowers! After our recent rains thanks to "Dolly" we have a lot of wildflowers blooming. I spied these along the roadside. I call them Hog Potato.
Scientific Name: Hoffmannseggia glauca (Hoffmanseggia glauca)
Common Name: Indian Rushpea, Hog Potato
Height: 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 cm) tall
Here is a link to my flickr wildflower photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiltdiva/sets/72157604354555914/
Those are beautiful, they are native to Texas too but I have never seen them.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=HOGL2
Josephine.
When your taste runs to the wild side, sometimes you find yourself looking around in roadside areas many people don't even glance at and collecting seed. That's how I got seed for Clammy Weed, Polanisia dodecandra. When I think how many plants I grow with common names that include "weed" names, well, it even surprises me!
I seem to have that " problem " too.
Nice picture! The clammy weed reminds me of rocky mountain bee plant!
OOps! A glitch, sorry.
angele
Aug 20, 2008
Wow!! That is some awesome photography everybody! I haven't ever seen the rocky mountain bee plant before roybird. It is so nice it deserved to be posted twice :-)
Pretty! And they look similar because they're both in the same botanical family, the caper family, Capparaceae (or Capparidaceae). One of my college profs would be so happy I mentioned such a thing. Of course, I've forgotten so much of what I learned in his classes that it's pitiful. Oh well!
Beautiful plants and pics. Another roadside plant, Eupatorium rugosum. ( I think it is, anyway..) I didn't realize until later today that it's the same plant as the 'Chocolate' one in the garden, not blooming yet.
That's a pretty plant, Claypa. Yes, the caper family. Interestingly, they don't seem much like capers that we eat. Which I thought were some sort of fern.
Such pretty plants. I found this one in our back arroyo. Got to look up what it may be.
That is pretty! It looks sort of like purslane.
Actually, it reminds me of a plant in the Menodora genus I have, but the flower is shaped different from the one I have. Who knows, it could be related. That's in the Oleaceae family.
This is a wild plant I've added to a few spots in my yard.It is Pearly everlasting-Anaphalis margaritacea.
Linda, two of my friends who are into native plants tell me that my photo is of a Menodora scabra. It does seem to be that plant, except all the photos I see of it the flowers are not little bells. I went back out and found several others and they all had the droopy bell shaped flower. I guess it is a Menodaro of some sort!
Glad I was able to help! At least you have a genus, you should be able to ID the species eventually. Nice picture of that pearly everlasting, Nedhudson1! Were you interested in a butterfly host plant when you planted it? I understand it hosts the American Lady and Painted Lady butterfly caterpillars.