Rise, my children. Rise from the darkness into the light. Mwahahhaha
#gardensky #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Pinxterbloom azalea

Pinxterbloom azalea on the Durant Nature Preserve hike
#Photography #Hiking #NativePlants

Shrubs are great additions to your pollinator garden. They offer nesting sites for birds as well as provide nectar and pollen for bees, butterflies, and insects that birds need to feed their young.

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#ldnont #nativeplants

We'll pause from our Trillium series to feature some blooming trees. Chionanthus virginicus is blooming now. Known by common names like fringetree, grancy greybeard or even old man’s beard, this member of the olive family is found throughout the state. (1/2) #nativeplants

A wide shot of a young eucalyptus sapling with striking silver blue leaves growing from a weathered tree stump. The plant is the central focus, surrounded by a dry Australian bush land setting with tall, slender gum trees and parched earth in the background. The lighting is soft and natural, highlighting the cool tones of the new growth against the warm, earthy browns of the forest floor. A small watermark in the shape of Australia with the text Kev Peirce Photography is in the bottom right corner.

Silver leaves emerging from the heart of the scrub.

Clare, South Australia.

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#Photo #Photography #Australia #SouthAustralia #Eucalyptus #AustralianBush #NaturePhotography #SilverLeaves #GumTree #AustralianFlora #NativePlants

a flowering stalk of nashville breadroot with over a dozen blooming flowers. the short stem is reddish purple and densely covered in long hairs below the flowers, present but less densely above the lowest flowers. several flowers grow at shared nodes, the nodes rotating around going up the stem. the legume-type flowers are light purple, but their hairy calyces are the same color as the stem. the banner petal is not quite double the length of the wing petals and tends to reflex backwards. the wings are held forwards with edges that curve inwards, around and usually concealing the keel petals unless you look at just the right angle.

some blooming nashville breadroot seen from above. early in their development, the clusters of flowers are egg-shaped, but they loosen up and spread apart as the flowers develop. the flowers on each cluster are of the same color, but the colors between the clusters range from light blue to dark purple. the legume-type flowers have long, narrow banners and wings that clasp together around the keels, which grow facing all directions around their shared stalk. the leaves grow on their own hairy stems, one leaf per stem. the leaves are circular, with usually 5 to 7 elliptic, hairy green leaflets spreading in all directions around a central point. the plants grow in loose gravel on a limestone cedar glade.

nashville breadroot growing among rocks and gravel near the edge of a limestone cedar glade. they have green leaves with around half a dozen long, thin leaflets growing at the top of their individual stems right out of a shared root in the ground. there are many flowering stalks growing among the spreading plants on this rocky plain. the flowers form short towers of purple flowers. behind the nashville breadroot, grasses grow nearer the treeline. at the very top of the image, the grasses give way to trees.

🌸 nashville breadroot 🌿
Pediomelum subacaule

there are a handful of sites where it can be found outside of middle tennessee but p much the nashville basin is the best place to find it

#nativeplants #ecoregion71

#foto STINK CURRANT (Ribes bracteosum) buds opening in vernal snowmelt stream 1450m, mid-MAY

Amazing, in a traditional Winters,
these currants are under 2m of snowpack
from NOVEMBER to MAY, water
of the small mountain flowing continuously.
Amazing…

#nativeplants #WALLOWAS #OREGON

PS I should put in a plug for Wild Ones Front Range. We support folks in gardening with #nativeplants. This is a good year to dip your toe in if you haven’t yet. If not for the bees, butterflies, and birds, then for the water!

About a year later. Pretty native flowers, but warning that the lesser celandine and Japanese knotweed of it all may be dispiriting.

🌈✨ just anthropocene things ✨🌈

🌿 #nativeplants
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

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This is such an opportunity to get people to CHANGE. Instead of lawn, why not low water #nativeplants, especially in front yards? Instead of thirsty landscaping which does nothing, how about a resilient native shade tree/s? How about one that bears fruit?

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I've been thinking about trying to grow eastern prickly pear lately. I don't have the sandy soil for it, so I'm still trying to figure out just exactly how I'm going to do that.

#nativeplants

Physaria bellii, our endemic Front Range Twinpod, blooming today in north Boulder #nativeplants 🌿

You can clearly see the tetradynamous stamens in these flowers which are characteristic of most mustard family members, four long plus two short stamens. 🧐

Yellow skunk cabbage with purple streaking.

The lone yellow one in a sea of maroon. #nativeplants #swamps

Yellow violets with purple nectar guides

Four years ago today 🌿

Viola nuttallii, our Nuttall's Violet, blooming at Joder Ranch #nativeplants

Yellow flower buds about to blossom. They are at the top of a stalk of a small plant on the forest floor.

Golden ragwort. In my experience, this is a super easy native to establish. These were volunteers from my yard that I moved last fall to a woodland being cleared of honeysuckle. Glad they survived the winter. #nativeplants

Small lavender colored cup shaped flowers are blooming on a native plant in a backyard. It is a chaparral mallow.

Lovely lavender flowers of one of the #nativeplants in the backyard - a Chaparral mallow. The shrub has soft gray green leaves that are covered in very tiny hairs. The bees like those cup shaped flowers. 🌿 Southern California

A photograph of several Little Barley plants growing close together on the edge of a backyard at a suburban house, all are less than 12 inches tall.

The local Little Barley is already going to seed, I love this species. Is anyone else here familiar with them or familiar with growing/processing them? They were domesticated once by eastern indigenous nations to my knowledge. #nativeplants #nativegrains #botany #littlebarley #alabama

A fourth train through a canyon rich in dense green chaparral plants with an oak tree in on the distant hill that stands out among the shorter shrubbery. The sky is partly cloudy and higher mountain ranges peek through in the distance.

A closer look at this oak tree leaning on a green hill shows an opening around its base void of large shrubs and surrounded mostly by green grasses

An Oak Tree a Day
Sometimes an oak just jumps out like it wants to be noticed. It also helps that many suppress the plants around it by shade, water & nutrient consumption, duff layer or a lesser form of chemical interference (allelopathy). California #nativePlants #nature

The golden ragwort (packera aurea) is looking lovely this spring! It's doing a wonderful job of spreading as a woodland edge groundcover. #nativeplants 🌱

Hot pink flowers with yellow stamens

Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Ball Cactus, blooming now off Button Rock trail #nativeplants 🌿

Three either vulture silhouettes against a cloudy sky.

A bright yellow, star-shaped glacier lily rises from the pine duff.

The turkey vultures and glacier lilies are back, so spring has officially arrived in the Inland Northwest.

🪶 🌱 #nativeplants

A gravelly mess between our bins and the neighbors starting to show signs of green plants emerging with a chainlink gate behind it covered in brown Clematis vines from the previous year.

Closeup of small green plants including natives and discards like the yellow daylilies from my original tear planting to see if anything would grow in the cracks. With annual Tithonia in the mix last year, the amount of #bees, #wasps, & #butterflies that visited just this area is exceptional.

The greening continues behind the bin and along the garage apron with flowering plants to fill in and some more ideas planned to add this season. Plus some heavy concrete bricks to prevent the garbage men from pushing the cart back over the plants, though they’re usually pretty respectful of them once they’re up. Who doesn’t appreciate a bit of surprise beauty in their everyday workplace?

Alley Patch is waking up. Our tiny #UrbsInHorto #Chicago garden means we can’t waste an inch of #pollinators habitat. So garbage bins are surrounded by #NativePlants Pycnanthemum muticum & tenuifolium, Oligoneuron rigidum, Grindelia lanceolata, maybe Asclepias plus some other stowaways. #gardening 🌱

Shaded rocky slope with mossy ledges near conifers which provide more shade

Selaginella (Spikemoss) covered munge ledges on broken pink granite cliff face. Over time dirt and detritus from the forest deposits on the ledges making a good environment for Selaginella on these north facing exposures #nativeplants 🌿 Button Rock trail today.

Partly moistened moss after an overnight spritz of rain. The moss is yellow green.

Moss growing on a north facing slope along the Button Rock trail today #nativeplants 🌿

Bright yellow flower clumps around a rosette of succulent leaves

Physaria bellii, our endemic Front Range Twinpod, blooming now in north Boulder #nativeplants 🌿

And its zoned commercial, meaning its almost certainly to be clear-cut. That means I dont feel guilty one-bit about what I am about to do #PlantRescues #GuerrillaGardening #NativePlants #SorryNotSorry

Hot pink cactus flowers with yellow orange anthers and pollen smeared on its petals

Pediocactus simpsonii blooming now 🌿

Our Mountain Ball Cactus #nativeplants

Hot pink flowers with yellow stamens and green pistils

Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Ball Cactus, blooming now off Button Rock trail #nativeplants 🌿

Nodding lavender flower opening on forested slope

Pasqueflower blooming now along Button Rock trail #nativeplants 🌿

A stem of Prairie Verbena beginning to flower today, surrounded by Western Daisies and visited by a Seven-spotted ladybird.

This is the spot where I planted the Prairie verbena last year, now covered with dozens of seedlings of various sizes.

A small newly-emerged seedling of Prairie Verbena, Glandularia bipinnatifida.

A larger seedling of Prairie Verbena that has developed the characteristic deeply-divided ferny leaves. Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

I bought a Prairie Verbena, a tender perennial, at a native plant sale last spring. It didn't come back this year, but it left lots of babies for me to plant around the garden. Glandularia bipinnatifida. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱