Minnesota's State Flower the Showy Lady's Slipper or Cypripedium reginae, she starts blooming around June 20, and is still blooming. These are about 10 miles from our home.
The Yellow Lady's Slipper or Cypripedium parviflorum, she blooms around June 20, and is still blooming. I can walk to this one as she is found along our back driveway. This year there were five blooms! That may not seem like many, but that is two more than she had last year!
Blue Flag Iris or Iris versicolor, this is along a stream about two miles from our home.
Indian Paintbrush or Castilleja coccinea. He is a little more difficult to find, we had to go further away to find a good stand of these, about twenty miles. He was well worth the trip! :)
Wow, these are great. Never seen any of those in the wild over here. Love the orchids.
ReplyDeletethe first shot is really really pretty, well done :)
ReplyDeleteI love the yellow so wild and looks exotic too. It really made me wild looking for something to post for this challenge.
ReplyDeleteThe Lady Slippers are lovely, and the Indian Paintbrush makes me a little homesick for Texas. :) It always bloomed along with the Blue Bonnets in April.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, I see you had to travel a bit for this but well worth it..:-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I'm glad I took the time this morning tolook at your stuff. I love how they are he and she and the gender fits the pic.
ReplyDeleteWonderful colors!! Very nice.
ReplyDeleteI love paintbrush, but your lady's slippers are quite beautiful too! :)
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty and I can't believe that you even knoe the names of these flowers. I am so impressed :)
ReplyDeleteLady Slipper are so delicate aren't they? Love them, great job!
ReplyDeleteI love the lady slippers but the blue flag iris is something that I've grown in my flowerbed here and can't imagine it growing in the wild.
ReplyDeleteNice colour on the first ladyslippers, so delicate. Indian Paintbrush is one of my favourite wild flowers.
ReplyDeleteExcellent native plants and great photos!
ReplyDeletebeautiful wildflowers I love lady slippers they are such delicate plants.
ReplyDeleteThe lady slipper is very unique. Pretty colors!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures and lovely flowers! I wish we had those growing wild around here!
ReplyDeleteLove your shots.
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ReplyDeleteLooks like my first comment didn't stick, so I'll say it again:
ReplyDeleteThank you for those lady slippers!
Love Indian Paintbrush but I'm a little partial due to living in Texas. The other flowers are so different, never seen anything like them before!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics! Very different than the wildflowers in this area.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos -- we get some of these earlier in the year, around March or so. Thank you so much for sharing.
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