Week 8 – March 5 – 12. The First Wildflower of Spring photo challenge.
Be searching for wildflowers in your area. Try to find the first one blooming and post a photo of it on your blog.
On our walks along the coast the most abundant wildflower we see is the Sea Fig. They come from the Carpetweed family. The yellow one is a Hottentot Fig and I think the more purple colored one is just called Sea Fig.
I’m hoping to get the names correct for this collage of flowers. I searched my Coastal Flowering Plants book but some were hard to identify. Here’s what I came up with from left to right. Purple Nightshade, Sea Rocket, more Sea Rocket, California Encelia (Bush Sunflower), Not sure maybe Wild Morning Glory?, more Bush Sunflower, Again not sure but think it’s Wild Morning Glory, Our Lord’s Candle (Yucca whipplei) Agave Family, Turkey Mullein Dove Weed.
An extra note on Our Lord’s Candle, the flower stalk is 4 to 8 feet tall. There is a basal rosette of spine-tipped, sword-like leaves 1 to 3 feet long. The white flowers sometimes purple-tinged, appear in a terminal compound cluster up to 4 feet long. They are very fragrant and even have a pleasant taste when nibbed. The fruit is a capsule.
Now since I am in California I really need to include some photos of our state wildflower the California Poppy!
These are all blooming at the same time here along the coast in Southern California so I included them all.
For more First Spring blooms head over to Elizabeth Joy’s.
Photobucket is holding all my photos from 2007-2015 hostage. I’m working on updating my blog posts very slowly.
I love your pictures. Isn’t SoCal beautiful this time of year!
Absolutely, positively incredibly beautiful.
I’m so jealous!
Blessed, beautiful flowers!
Thanks for sharing them.
Jody
There is just tooo much beauty out there.
I would love to take a walk with you.
ALL THIS is in flower now where you live? Oh my goodnes! What am I doing hre in icy, snowy Ontario?
Do you detect a hint of jealousy? 😉
I’m jealous, too! It’s going to be a challenge to find something growing in the wild here in Nova Scotia. Thanks for the splashes of spring color!
Wow! That’s WAY too impressive. We’re just finally getting rid of our snow over here. 🙂
We had poppies too! Great post.
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