What is your favorite wildflower?

I travel a lot to photograph wildflowers, and of all those that I have taken, I think that this one is one of the most complexed and my favorite. What is yours?


Bog bean ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )

 

Love the Bog Bean flowers! Wow!

My favourite wildflower? Well, it has to be the Trillium.

 

A good selection. I think that I have pics of all of those, although ours may differ from yours in Scotland. This is our evening primrose.


( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )

 

Do you have a picture of a white Trillium or maybe a pink one, Kildale?

 

I have lots of trillium, this is the only wildflower protected by law here in BC.


( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )

 

I love that flower. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to go out in the woods this year so I missed the blooms.

Thank you for posting the picture, Kildale

 

This is another one that I like and is going to be in a book, NWF Field Guide to Wildflowers being published by Sterling in 2010.They contacted me through my web site.


( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )

 

I vote the same as Kildale for Trillium. We have them here too, and they're one of the first signs of spring after a long cold winter.

 

I like them all but I think the little red columbine is my favorite :-D

 

i dont know enough names or varieties to answer....but i saw that pic of the evening primrose above and i think i have that growing next to my fence.

i noticed the plant a few months back and now its quite big. It has yellow flowers that open and close.

i just did a lil research about it and if its the evening primrose its supposed to be totally edible and good for you..

 

Here is a red columbine. Aquilega formosa.


Columbine ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )

 

What is your favourite wild flower?

Some of the photographs are quite quite beautiful. Thank you. I only wish I was capable of taking pictures like them.

For me part of the joy of plants is their appearance and scent. Their profusion, individuality and contribution to the life of the planet only makes the appreciation of them even greater - and I have been writing and researching about that for the past twenty years.

I only wish that fewer people discounted their existence. Apart from the fact that animals (including man) cannot live without them - people just do not seem to realise what they are missing.

 

Thank you for the columbine

 

Hi Suece. As I have been photographing all aspects of nature for me Nature Site, I know how much in nature that people, even walkong in the woods, miss.