Forget April Showers; Think Flowers…

12May09

I thought I’d try to do something a little different…

Here are the flowers that sprouted up this April. I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile to organize in my own mind what will sprout up when. I’m quite sure I did not get them all but this is what I did get. May will have to be done in installments as any flower hunter will probably tell you.

It seems the first flowers are yellow or white they started around the end of march actually I captured them on the 6th of April, buttercups (not shown), followed by yellow-bells and the woodland star. Around the 9th the spring beauties and Draba was added. It was 17th when the shooting stars and blue-eye’d Mary’s bloomed. On the 20th the very pretty wool breeches showed up alongside the Siberian springbeauty. This year, unlike the last three, there is an abundance of wool breeches. That makes my eyes happy!

Draba verna, spring draba or spring whitlow-grass

Claytonia lanceolata or Lanceleaf Springbeauty

unknown I suspect it’s in the springbeauty family (or Claytonia)

Lithophragma glabrum, bulbous woodland-star or bulbiferous prairie-star

Fritillaria pudica, yellow fritillary, yellow bells or yellow missionbells

Collinsia parviflora, small-flowered blue-eyed mary or maiden blue eyed Mary

Phlox gracilis or slender phlox

Though this is a later shot they were in full bloom on the 17th I suspect this, based on the thick rounded basal leaves, is Dodecatheon conjugens or the Bonneville shooting star. {sometimes also called; slimpod shooting star or desert shooting star}

Hydrophyllum capitatum, ballhead waterleaf or wool breeches

Claytonia sibirica or Siberian springbeauty… I’m not 100% solid on this ID but I’m pretty sure.

Unknown Flower

And suprizingly I saw my first pioneer violet on the 20th. Viola glabella

Arrowleaf Balsamroot just started to sprout petals on the 17th & on the 1st of May were in full bloom.

Okay I think that covers it… It’s been raining for days now which means I’m stuck inside. Though I love the powerful and dramatic thunderstorms I still think I adore looking for the flowers more.

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