Anybody know of a good website to identify wildflowers?
We went and picked these wildflowers last week but have no idea what they are called.
I must say, with all the rain and cooler weather we have been having it sure has greened up what would otherwise be a very “beige” landscape.
It’s been beautiful to see these views as we drive around in our little valley!
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Hi Cocoa! It’s a little difficult to tell from the photos, but they look to me a little like red bluebonnets from my native Texas. The “maroon” version of the Texas bluebonnet was developed at Texas A&M University, but they sometimes come out looking a little more bright red than maroon. Here’s a site that talks about the flowers. Did they look like bright red versions of this?
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/cemap/maroon/maroon.html
And this site talks about how Texas bluebonnets can grow in many more places than in Texas, so I’m not surprised to see them with you in Nevada!
http://www.texasbluebonnetseeds.com/bluebonnetphotos.htm
As a Longhorn myself, I’m just waiting for them to engineer a burnt orange variety!
Enjoy that beautiful weather! 🙂
I wish I knew more about wild flowers! I recently enjoyed an evening discussion on forging though and was directed to the instructor’s website will all sorts of useful info.
http://holisticwisdom.org/hwpages/wildcrafting.html
You are such a great photographer that you and your girls should put together your own local field guide
I googled Nevada wildflowers and came up with this one: http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/FieldGuide/fieldguide.html. Choose your color of flower and click on it to see it is the one. Good luck.
Heather Waite (say HI to your sil for me)
Can’t help with the name, but the pictures and flowers are gorgeous!
Try the Utah State’s extension plant id site:
http://extension.usu.edu/rangelands/rangesciandmonitoring/plantidandinfo3.htm
Hope that helps. Your terrain looks very similar to Northern UT/ Southern ID.
Hey Cocoa, It looks like milkweed to me. Check for monarch butterflies later in the season.