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| Blue violet | Yellow violet | Wild Iris |
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| Larkspur | Dogwood blossoms | Brodiaea and Lupines |
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| Redbud | Flower patch on Kennedy Table | Bush lupine |
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| Dogwood Blossoms, Yosemite | Lupines, Highway 49, Mariposa County | Athurial's Spear (a variety of brodiaea) |
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| Mariposa Lily | Owl Clover | Foxgloves, Oregon coast |
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| Mustang clover | Western Wall Flower | California Poppies |
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| Fiesta Flower | Lupine | Striking blossom in Missouri |
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| Daisies in Missouri | Wild onion (?) | Colorado blossoms |
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| Tiny flowers in a Sierra meadow | Flowers
along Highway 1 in Mendocino County |
Flowers above the coastal cliff |
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| More coastal flowers | Purple flower on Point Cabrillo | More Cabrillo flowers |
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| And still more | Flower in Richardson Grove | Farewell-to-spring
in Sierra foothills near Oakhurst |
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| Mariposa Lilly, Oakhurst, 2011 | Flowering tree at Black Rock Reservoir | Goldenrod near Dinkey Creek |
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| The foothills' #1 flower, fiddlenecks | Bird's Eye Gilia | Blue Dick, Sierra foothills |
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| Indian Pinks |
Indian
Rhubarb grows |
Rhubarb close-up |
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| Lupines at Bass Lake | Redbud at San Joaquin Gorge | California
poppies along Highway 41 near Cholame |
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| Color in the desert |
More spring flowers
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Cactus flower, Arizona |
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| Joshua blossom | Porcupine cactus | Hedgehog cactus |
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| Flowers at San Joaquin Gorge - Lupine, thistle, golden brodiaea | ||
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| Bush lupine | Top of lupine, ready to bloom |
Harlequin
lupines, |
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| A closer look | These two
inch high flowers are known as broom-rape or cancer-root |
Farewell-to-Spring - one of the last to bloom in the Sierra foothills |
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| Shooting
Stars at San Joaquin Gorge, February 2013 |
Baby Blue Eyes at the Gorge | Blue lupine |
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| White lupine | Purple vetch | Mariposa Lillies |
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| California poppies | Golden brodiaea, AKA pretty face | Poppies paint the hills
along Big Creek, Fresno County |
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| Spring flowers along Trimmer Springs Road |
Unknown
flowers at Caribou Crossroads, Plumas County |
More from Caribou |
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Wild roses at
Mono Hot |
Research
indicates this is some kind of primrose |
Lupines in Sierra foothills |
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| Flower by the Dry Creek trail in Clovis CA | This should be called the hydra plant | Fiddlenecks |
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| Climbing Brodiaea | Fringed
redmaids, less than a quarter inch in diameter |
Filaree |
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Poppies,
South Fork, Merced River |
Zig
zag of poppies, Hite Cove Trail (Photo by Wes Thiessen) |
Poppies and blue dicks |
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| Shooting stars, the most beautiful of all wildflowers |
A bunch of shooting stars | Baby blue eyes |
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Indian paint brush near Bear Valley (Mariposa County) |
A hillside of fiddlenecks | Chaparral
blossoms (also known as buck brush) |
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| Who can identify this plant? | Athurial's spear | Farewell-to-spring |
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| Lupines by Highway 120, eastern California | Lupine in Fulton County Ohio | |
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Inviting
flower, spiny foliage |
A view of the full plant |
Flowers seen everywhere in the Midwestern states in July 2014 |
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| Cliff Rose, Great Basin National Park | Bee posing on a thistle blossom |
Flower
with bee in Great |
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Paint brush in Great Basin in Nevada |
Mullein
in Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado |
Blossoms in the monument |
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| More Dino Monument flowers | In the
Utah section of Dinosaur National Monument |
White lupine in Colorado |
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Columbine
blossom, Rocky |
Bright flower |
In Oak
Openings Preserve, |
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| Assorted flowers in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado | ||
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| Another RMNP flower | Redwood
sorrel,
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park |
Monkey flower, Cowell Park |
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| The 2015 display of poppies in the Kings River Canyon by Pine Flat Lake was the best in more than a decade | ||
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| Poppies or paint patches? | ||
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| A magnificent poppy panorama | ||
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| Bush lupine panorama next to the Kings River | ||
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Popcorn flowers dominate here |
Blue dicks | Fiddlenecks and blue dicks |
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Baby blue eyes in the Sycamore Wildlife hiking area |
Golden brodiaea | Bright yellow daisies |
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| Bush lupines are out in force | Hillside of poppies | Research indicates this is Foothill Gilia |
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Delicate lavender edges |
Landscaping in stripes | Blossoms
are out on this unusual variety of miner's lettuce |
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| Indian Paintbrush | Miner's lettuce in bloom | Fringed Redmaids |
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Lupines along Old Highway in Mariposa County |
A favorite mystery flower | A type of penstemon |
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| White lupine |
This white lupine has a touch of pink |
Chinese houses |
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| Purple brodiaea close-up... | ...and in profusion | A relative, golden brodiaea |
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They
like a little more sunshine |
Tangled stems of climbing |
Climbing brodiaea blossom |
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| Thistle with huge striped leaves | Bulbous stem plant in bloom | Elderberry blossom |
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| Bell-like flowers near California Creek and Road 6S47Y |
Wild strawberry blossom | Indian pinks |
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Shelton's violet |
Yellow violet |
Wild iris |
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| Dogwood blossoms | A close-up | Western wall flower |
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| Blue Dick | Another unknown | Chinese Houses |
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| A member of the daisy family | Indian rhubarb grows in the water | |
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This flower surely
has |
Western
wall flower, Kaiser Pass, Sierra National Forest |
Probably a type of penstemon |
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| Low-growing
lupine forms a ground cover near Kaiser Pass |
Scarlet Gilia | Wild rose, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado |
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Looks somewhat but not |
Common yarrow | Lots of identified
flowers look similar, none exact |
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| Field of lupines by CA 120 | And a close-up | Lupines above Kaiser Pass |
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Another type of lupine above Kaiser Pass |
At Eagle Canyon in Utah |
More Utah flowers |
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Flowers near Courtright Reservoir |
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| Flowers on the Kaiser Pass Road | More Kaiser Pass flowers | Fireweed |
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| Along the Dinkey Creek Wilderness Trail |
These look very much like a flower known as alpine lily |
Sunflower |
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| Datura AKA Moonflower AKA jimson weed | Looks like Indian paint brush | California poppies were thick again in spring of 2016 |
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| Fiddleneck, ready for its close-up | Fringed
redmaids are thick throughout the foothills |
After seeing these by the hundreds we learned the name - Phacelia |
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| Chaparral blossom at the San Joaquin Gorge |
This
striking blossom |
They
were hard to spot among the tall grass |
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| Common madia | Is this a variation of madia? |
An
excellent example of |
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| Another daisy-like flower |
Poppies and lupines |
Globe Lily |
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| Milkweed blossom | Penstemon | This remarkable flower needs someone to provide a name |
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| Spectacular
Carpenteria blossoms are about two inches across |
Goldfields | A beautiful but unidentified flower |
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| Elegant Clarkia | Farewell-to-Spring | A lone popcorn flower |
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| These look almost the same as Fringed Redmaids but not quite |
This is a white variety of brodiaea |
Brodiaea relative, Ithurial's Spear |
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| The spotted variation of Farewell-to-Spring | And the "spotless" variety | Lots of Farewell-to-Spring along a foothill trail |
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Blue dicks
at Edison Point |
Leafless tree
makes a perfect contrast for the orange hill |
Best stand of baby blue eyes in Spring 2016 |
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| White blossoms in Colorado | Sierra Star |
In Dinosaur National Monument, Utah-Colorado |
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| Roadside flowers outside Duluth, Minnesota | More Duluth blossoms |
Flower growing above tree line in |
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| Cream Cups | Blue Dick | Unidentified yellow flower |
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| A fine brodiaea specimen | A bunch of brodiaea | Phecelia
is often accompanied by fiddlenecks |
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| A fine thistle blossom | Blue variation of chaparral blossoms | Bush Lupines shine in the sun along Trimmer Springs Road |
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| Grand Collomia | Close-up
of the "spotless" variation of Farewell-to-Spring |
Asters |
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| Bear Clover | Tall
purple flower in Cedar Grove, Kings Canyon National Park |
Teri stands next to the plant |
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| More unidentified flowers - suggestions welcome | ||
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| One more flower to identify | And another one | Owl clover surrounded by birds eye gilia |
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This
flower is
well-defended |
One more
in my collection of |
These bushes, apparently planted, are common along roads and trails |
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| The white flowers give way to rust-red seed heads | ||
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| Fiddlenecks along Dry Creek Canyon in Tulare County | ||
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| Yellow-throated gilia | Kelley's Lily | Another flower to be named later |
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| Wavyleaf Indian Paint Brush | Either Azure or Royal Penstemon | Dewy blossoms (by Wes Thiessen) |
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| Lupines, Merrill Ranch, Triangle Road in Mariposa County CA (Crandall) | Dried flower heads near Kaiser Pass | This
may be rabbitbush also known as goldenbush |
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Wild
rose in the Giant Sequoia |
Probably some type of goldenrod | Fireweed |
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| Another nice fireweed photo | These
fuzzy-looking blossoms are Ranger's Buttons |
Common
small sunflower found in city and countryside |
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| Manzanita
blossoms along Trimmer Springs Road |
Manzanita blossoms close-up |
Baby
blue eyes at the |
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| Bush lupines on Auberry Road | A closer look | Unusual white manzanita |
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| Bush lupines near Pine Flat Lake | Shooting stars by the Kings River | These
unknown flowers often accompany shooting stars |
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| Dove
lupines, the smallest of the species in the Sierra foothills |
Shooting stars and buttercups | The
brilliant orange of poppies, above Sycamore Creek |
