#WildflowerWednesday
Just posted again to my blog Habitat Gardening. This time, I cover
🪱Preparing soil for native plants - by not doing hardly anything.
and
🪲Protecting #wildflowers that bloom early - by just relaxing and not ripping them out […]
This is my full draft lifecycle for sunflower broomrape, Orobanche cumana. Last year, Washington State had the first known infestation of this parasitic plant in North America.
#WIPwednesday #SciArt #WildflowerWednesday #BloomScrolling #ScientificIllustration
A close up of a blue Cornflower blossom with two more in the background, surrounded by a blurry, green background.
Centaurea cyanus
While not originally from Germany, Cornflowers are assumed to have immigrated here through seed in the early Neolithic period and are hence Archaeophytes, which I personally think counts for #WildflowerWednesday
Louisiana Broomrape has special roots that enable it to steal sugar from other plants. Since it doesn't photosynthesize, its leaves are not green, appearing as pinkish scales instead. The species is rare in Manitoba because it only parasitizes native prairie plants. #WildflowerWednesday
Close-up of small white anemone flowers with a purple cast. Their stems are reddish and they have trifoliate, toothed green leaves.
Gray's Anemone (Anemonoides grayi) blooms for #WildflowerWednesday. 💚
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
The image captures a river bank with wildflowers displaying red flowers. The plants are Cardinal Flowers – a native wildflower that produces showy red flowers in late summer and thrives in marshes and the shores of streams, ponds, and lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. This photo was taken at McCasland Bridge on the Saranac River.
Here’s a #coloraday submission for #redWed: #CardinalFlower blooming along the banks of a river. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...
#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackMountains #wildflowerwednesday #AdirondackWildflowers #wildflowers #nature
#wildflowerwednesday
Good Afternoon 🕊️Some Daisies for #wildflowerwednesday ☺️ #gardening #wildflowers #daisies #perennials #FlowersOnBluesky #flowers
Did you know that in Canada, three-toothed Groundsel can only be found in Manitoba? This rare species can be found in sandy habitats in the province, like the dunes at Spruce Woods Provincial Park. The yellow flowers bloom in spring, attracting small bees and flies. #WildflowerWednesday
Close-up of round, bright yellow buds and blooms atop green stems and pointed leaves. Plant is growing in a forested area among brown leaf duff.
Lovely Laceleaf Sanicle (Sanicula laciniata) blooming earlier this month, for #WildflowerWednesday. 💚
Plant information here...
www.calflora.org/app/taxon?cr...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers 📷🌱
Scratch-art line drawing of an orchid in flower. Different parts, angles, and life stages are included. Fairy Slipper Orchid, Calypso bulbosa
Fairy Slipper Orchid, Calypso bulbosa, is a circumpolar species. This means it grows all across the northern hemisphere, where it can be found in shaded habitats.
#SciArt #orchid #ScratchArt #BloomScrolling #WildflowerWednesday
The leaves of Woolly Groundsel are covered with a dense mat of long woolly hairs, giving them a greyish-green appearance. It grows on dry prairie slopes, and was named after famous Canadian botanist John Packer, who was a professor at the @https://ualberta.bsky.social #WildflowerWednesday
#Wildflowerwednesday swamp milkweed? and a #monarch
#Wildflowers #Photography #Naturephotography #flowers
A small clump of snowdrops viewed from above.
Pink hellebores in the flowerbed in front of the cottage.
A lone daffodil blooms proudly under the holm oak.
Periwinkles next to the kitchen (staff) door.
"Before I had any conscious thought it was a delight to me to find wild flowers, just to see them."
The Open Air
#WildflowerWednesday #BloomScrolling
Macro of small three-part maroon and white flower with striped drooping sepals and finger-like upright petals.
Macro of small three-part maroon and white flower with striped drooping sepals and finger-like upright petals.
Macro of small three-part maroon and white flower with striped drooping sepals and finger-like upright petals.
Closeup of two California Fetid Adderstongue plants with mottled maroon spots on wide green oval leaves. There are long pedicels emerging from the base of the leaves, and have flowers or seed pods at their ends . This plant is in the lily family.
California Fetid Adderstongues blooming in Forestville this week. Their scent reminds me of raw meat, which draws in their fungus gnat pollinators.💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Scoliopus-bi...
#WildflowerWednesday #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱
A watercolour painting of a cutting of a plant. The upright branch has small groups of leaves growing off at regular intervals with small white-pink blossoms near the leaves. Near the base of the plant handwriting read, “N.C. / v. 1910”.
Although the berries of Canada Gooseberry are edible, they can be quite tart if picked too early. When ripe, the berries turn colour from green to reddish purple or black. Animals like bears and birds also like to eat the berries, so you may have some competition for them! #WildflowerWednesday
Close-up of a pale purple-and-white wildflower with raindrops on its petals, set against soft-focus green leaves.
What can I say? I like my Colorado Columbines a little wet and a little dirty. 🤷🏼♂️😅💦
#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Flowers #Wildflowers #WildflowerWednesday #Nikon #CaptureOne #BloomScrolling
Close-up, looking down on clusters of purple-budding, blue-flowering, and green-fruiting plant, with large oval green leaves at the base.
Macro of a small five-petaled blue flower with tiny heart-shaped white structures at base. There are purple buds and blue flowers in the blurry background.
Pacific Hound's Tongue (Adelinia grandis) in bloom this week on Sonoma Mtn. for #WildflowerWednesday. 💚
Calscape plant information here...
calscape.org/Adelinia-gra...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #MacroPhotos #iNat #Breathe📷
A watercolour painting of the upper portion of a plant. Leaves peel back from a thick stem, and at the top is a cluster of small white flowers. Either side of the painting are small illustrations of the fruiting flower and the tufted seeds. Small handwriting reads, “NC / 27.V.07”.
Arctic Sweet Coltsfoot leaves are said to resemble the shape and size of a young horses’ foot! It’s a large plant with several dense clusters of white flowers. Even in fruit it’s lovely, as each seed possesses long white tufts of hairs to help them disperse in the wind. #WildflowerWednesday
Close-up of a purple iris from above.
Lovely Douglas Iris along the NorCal coast last week, for #WildflowerWednesday. 💚
Calscape plant info. here...
calscape.org/Iris-douglas...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos 📷
A watercolour painting of two sections of a plant. On the left side it the upper portion, with two clusters, or “heads”, or small yellow flowers. On the right side is the lower portion of the plant, a thick stem interspersed with large green leaves. Between the two sections, small handwriting reads, “N.C. / Feb 1909”. Printing in pencil in the lower right corner reads, “Senecio interjerimus”.
Western Ragwort is a native species with yellow flowers grouped into dense clusters, and leaves covered with long, sometimes cobwebby hairs. Growing in dry prairies in the south, the flowers provide pollinators like bees, flies, and butterflies with nectar in early spring. #WildflowerWednesday
Good Afternoon 🕊️😇
Good Afternoon 🕊️ 😇 #WildflowerWednesday “May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” #wildflowers #nature #FlowersOnBluesky #FlowersonWednesday
Good Evening 🕊️
Good Evening 🕊️ #WildflowerWednesday "The strength of a wildflower is found in its ability to dance in adversity." #wildflowers #nature #quotes
A photo of a patch of parrys gentian flowers from the side with a mountain and blue sky in the background. Parrys gentians are white, tube-shaped flowers with bright blue on the tips of the petals.
#WildflowerWednesday with this cool side shot I got of Parrys Gentian. I love the shape and color of these flowers!
Watercolour painting of a cutting of a plant with paired circular leaves with darker green tops. Growing at intervals near the upper portion of the plant are individual small, yellow flowers. Near the base of the plant, handwriting reads, “N.C. / 11. VII. 05”, and in the lower right corner, printing in pencil reads, “Mimulus Jamesii”.
The endangered Geyer’s Yellow Monkeyflower only grows in wetland habitats in the southwest, often near a natural spring. It has yellow, irregularly-shaped flowers that bloom mainly in August. The common name refers to the flower’s apparent similarity to the face of a monkey. #WildflowerWednesday
Happy #WildflowerWednesday! Take a break, breathe, and enjoy some pretty flowers from the #BerryessaSnowMountain National Monument region.
#wildflowers #norcal
A yellow butterfly (a Cloudless Sulphur) is clinging to the side of a red flower called a Turk's Cap. The flower has a tight red bud with a very tall stamen protruding from its center. Part of the bush on which the flower is attached is showing and the background is blurred greenery. The photo was taken at Hagerman NWR in August.
Another #random photo from the archives for #WildflowerWednesday with a bonus #butterfly. Every time I look at this photo, I think it looks like the butterfly is playing a red upright bass. (I know. I'm weird.)
#randombeauty #originalcontent #photography 📷
A photo of an arctic gentian flower. Arctic gentians are white, tube-shaped flowers with purple speckles.
Arctic Gentian for #WildflowerWednesday ! A high altitude bloom
