I’m taking us back to Illinois for these Friday flowers, because we all need some beauty in our day. I hope your Friday is as beautiful as these flowers.
Posts Tagged ‘Illinois flowers’
Friday flowers
Posted: November 6, 2020 in flowersTags: coneflowers, flowers, Friday flowers, Illinois flowers, McDowell Forest Preserve
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Friday flowers…shy
Posted: May 3, 2019 in flowersTags: flowers, Friday flowers, Illinois flowers, Illinois wildflowers, iPhone photography, McDowell Forest Preserve, wildflowers
Friday flowers…finally wildflowers
Posted: April 12, 2019 in flowersTags: a walk in the park, flowers, forest wildflowers, Illinois flowers, Illinois wildflowers, McDowell Forest Preserve, spring, spring flowers, wildflowers
My Monday walk this week took me through a lot of mud in search of wildflowers. There were thousands of them (wildflowers, not mud, although there was a lot of that, too) waiting for the sunshine to warm the earth a bit more before bursting briefly into bloom. I tramped through the mud in search of anything else, when suddenly I discovered this patch of wildflowers in full bloom. I’ll be going back as soon as possible to check on the progress of the other flowers. Despite the lack of flowers, it was a soul-soothing two hours.
I have no idea what these flowers are and I haven’t had any luck finding them online. If any of you know what they are (Judy?), please share! Trying to identify by online photos isn’t easy!
Friday flowers…yellow
Posted: August 24, 2018 in flowersTags: flowers, Friday flowers, Illinois flowers, McDowell Forest Preserve, yellow flowers
Friday flowers…curves
Posted: November 3, 2017 in flowersTags: flowers, Friday flowers, Illinois flowers, Illinois wildflowers, McDowell Forest Preserve, Nikon, Oscar Wilde quote, quotes, Shakespeare quote, wildflowers
I have no idea what this is (input invited), but I love the delicate little waxy flowers and the graceful curves of the stem. And doesn’t this quote from Shakespeare make you want to lie down on the bank he describes?
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
Friday flowers…royal beauty
Posted: October 27, 2017 in flowersTags: flowers, Illinois flowers, McDowell Forest Preserve, Naperville Illinois, p, prairie flowers, Red flowers, Royal Catchfly, Silene regia, woodland flowers
During the walk where I found all the flowers featured in my recent blog posts, I also found one plant with beautiful red flowers. I’ve never seen one before and there was only this one (and maybe one other in another spot), so I was curious whether it was rare.
Not only is it rare, it’s royal. The US Wildflower site says:
Silene regia – Royal Catchfly. Royal Catchfly – Silene regia is a plant of rocky prairies, glades, and open woods with attractive scarlet red flowers. It appears similar to Fire Pink – Silene virginica – but Silene regia has a much smaller distribution – 12 states, and in 6 of those states it is protected due to its rarity, having Rare, Endangered, or Threatened status. It is possible that it has no longer survived in Knox County, the only county in Tennessee where it was found.
There’s no mention as to whether it really catches flies, but it certainly caught my eye.
