I take photos of wild flowers (weeds to most of you). I live in the lower foothills of the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Many of these flowers are incredibly tiny, other, not so much. I also haven't identified many of them.
Wild Hyacinths
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They grow profusely behind the house on our west-sloping back property.
B. Elegans and Foxtails
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Obviously a set up photo but I thought it made for a pretty picture.
Lovely lavender flowers
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I have not identified these lovely flowers. The next photo is a close up.
Lovely lavender flower (2)
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Don't know what it is and I only just saw it the first time last Spring. I've lived here eight years.
B. Elegans
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This richly purple flower comes out when nearly all the grass and weeds are dead, in late Spring. There's a hillside just off our property where it blooms every year.
Common weed
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This is one of the early bloomers and it is quite common. My camera lens was only one to one and a half inches away when I took the photo.
Broadleaf Shooting Star
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After eight years of living here, last Spring was the first time I saw this beautiful, elegant flower, and it was all over the property.
Common Fiddlehead
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The Common Fiddlehead grows profusely, everywhere, every Spring.
Another unidentified flower
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These yellow flowers bloom in mid-Spring every year.
Farewell to Spring
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These flowers, Farewell to Spring, bloom when nearly everything else has died, like the B. Elegans.
Unidentified flower
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This weed flower blooms every year and is everywhere. But the blossoms are very tiny. Again, this, like many of my photos was done with the macro lens setting.
Baby Blue Eyes
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There is a field on the way down to the local gas station/mini market where these flowers grow and there will be several dozen blooming for a couple of weeks. I've never seen them any place else in my 2-1/2 to 3 miles daily walks.
A posey of tiny pink flowers
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Again, unidentified. This one group only was growing in the gravel parking area next to the sidewalk in front of the house.