And now, a floral intermission to my South America travel narrative. Photos from 27 April at Edgewood County Park in Redwood City, California.
California Poppies and Tidy Tips
Linanthus sp.
Tidy Tips and Four-Spot Clarkia
A lizard
Blue-eyed Mary
White Globe Lily
Sticky Monkeyflower
Blue Dicks
Sanicula(?) sp.
Starflower
Flowers seen (in no particular order):
- Blue-eyed Grass
- Blue-eyed Mary
- White Globe Lily
- Scarlet Pimpernel
- Cut-leaf Geranium
- Redstem Filaree
- Broadleaf Filaree
- California Hedgenettle
- Sticky Monkeyflower
- Ithuriel’s Spear
- Blue Dicks
- Miner’s Lettuce
- Morning Glory
- Crimson Columbine
- Indian Warrior
- Sanicula sp.
- Cow Clover
- Bush Lupine
- Starflower
- California Poppy
- Creamcups
- Larkspur sp.
- Fern-leaved Lomatium
- Elegant Brodiaea
- Pale Flax
- Tidy Tips
- California Blackberry
- Purple Clarkia
- Four-spot Clarkia
- Suncups
- Hound’s Tongue (in seed)
- Shooting Star (in seed)
- Woodland Star
- Mule’s Ear Sunflower
- Chamomile
Wonderful photos. The colors of spring truly cannot be surpassed.
I sure envy all of the flowers blooming in your area! Excellent photos, too!
ScienceGuy: Thanks, and I quite agree!
Montucky: It seems you have plenty in your area too, plus you’ll be posting about them while we are mid-summer. Spring’s coming to a close around here. In another month we’ll have to drive to the Sierra Nevada to witness spring anew.
The shots are beautiful. I love what you did with the blue eye’d Mary .. and that soft portrait look is really beautiful (like on the starflower, the blue dicks etc….) That is really pretty. I think these shots are amazing. Beautiful shots – gorgeous flowers. (It’s important for me to keep up on yours – we over here seem to have about ten percent of the flowers you have!) p.s. I completely love that pale yellow on the monkey flower… beautiful!
Thanks, Lori! The BE Mary isn’t really in-focus (there wasn’t much light to get a reasonably high shutter speed), but oh well, not everything has to be pin-sharp, right? The others’ portraity look is due to using a large aperture on my macro lens, which blurs out the background nicely. Do you have Sticky Monkeyflower in your ‘hood? It’s very common here, blooming from early spring through mid-to-late summer on grassy sunny hillsides.
I love reading your blog and seeing your photos. We have none of these flowers here… At least I don’t think so! We have a different flower we call Starflower. I like how yours is casting a shadow on the greenery below.
Jennifer: Interesting – our Pacific Starflower is Trientalis borealis (and of course I’m not 100% certain that that’s what the above is, although it looks right to me), in the Primrose family – what’s yours?
Love them all, but my favorite is the White Globe Lilly… really nice.
Thanks, Jayleen – that’s one of my very favorite wildflowers.
I’ll echo Jennifer- It is very cool to see such interesting and different flora than we have here in the east. Excellent photos, thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Tom!
That Blue-eyed Mary looks like collinsia multicolor, or San Francisco Blue-eyed Mary, a rare plant. Edgewood is one of the few places where it is found.
Thanks for visiting, Peggy, and for the ID tip – I wasn’t sure which Blue-eyed Mary it was.