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Dear Amy,
great to see you in Utah!
Plants are not by strong suit, not by a long shot, but your #4 is Erythronium grandiflorum, I'm fairly certain. It's a dogtooth violet, in the same genus as the familiar spring flower of eastern woodlands.
I t h i n k that your #1 is a Convolvulus, #2 a yellow Fabaceae (duh), and #6 a Lobelia. I'll be eager to see what those who actually know their flowers have to say!
r
I haven't a clue about the flowers, but they certainly are lovely.
Rick: Wonderful to gab with you during ABA! Thanks for your input on the flowers.
NCMW: Isn't nature an incredible artist?
Amy,
Great photos.
#2 is affectionately named Butter & Eggs (Linaria vulgaris). I've seen it in Alaska where it's considered a non-native flower, but I don't know about its status in Utah.
#3 looks like some kind of Polemonium species (Jacob's Ladder).
#6 I agree with Rick that this looks like a Lobelia.
You might be able to narrow down the species by looking at a list of plants from Utah via the USDA Plant Database: http://plants.usda.gov/
Hope this helps
Thank you, Casey.
P.S. On second thought the 6th photo may be a Penstemon of some sort. I can't tell for sure.
Hi, Amy,
Nice pix! And thanks for the opportunity for armchair botanizing (no substitute for attending the convention, but...).
Rick got one of the aliens, the noxious Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) plus the native Yellow Avalanche-Lily, and Casey got the Butter and Eggs or Common Toadflax, another alien, and its scroph cousin, #6, a penstemon (maybe Wasatch beardtongue, P. cyananthus - I don't pay much attention to the blue ones ;>). #3 is Lewis's, Prairie, or Blue Flax, Linum lewisii, named for Meriwether Lewis. #5 is a cranesbill (Geranium sp.), but I'm not sure which (it's downy like richardsonii, which we also have here in SE AZ).
Lovely...and hopefully a preview of what's to come here at home since the summer rains have begun.
--Sheri
1. Looks like Bindweed to me (though I nearly said morning glory but the leaves are different)
2. Toadflax
3. Blue Flax
4. Glacier-Lily (rare these days)
5. Wild Geranium
6. Penstemon of some sort
It helps to include leaves in the photo, for identification…but another cool thing to do is guess and then go to Google and click ‘Images’ (upper left corner of Google's main page) when you want confirmation. You'll get about a million pics! Works for me.
Wonderful blog, BTW... Thanks!
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Thanks, y'all!
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