Wildflower Photo Gallery
I have a habit of taking photos of wildflowers* and identifying them. Here are those photos (and more) with my best guess at the species name, approximate location, and time of year. Please contact me with any corrections.
*Often not-so-wild flowers
Western wallflower (Sandia Mountains, August)
Giant lousewort (Sandia Mountains, August)
Wild bergamot (Sandia Mountains, August)
Hare bells (Sandia Mountains, August)
Whipple’s penstemon (Sandia Mountains, August)
Datura (Albuquerque, August)
Silver leaf nightshade (Albuquerque, August)
Red whiskered clammyweed (Albuquerque, August)
Wavyleaf thistle (Albuquerque, August)
Copper globemallow (Albuquerque, August)
Prairie-fire (Albuquerque, August)
Ponil (Albuquerque, August)
Orange puncturevine (Albuquerque, August)
Scarlet beeblossom (Albuquerque, August)
Germander sage (Albuquerque, August)
Pinewoods geranium (Santa Fe, August)
Alfalfa (Santa Fe, August)
Stemmy four-nerve daisy (Santa Fe, August)
Tansyleaf tansyaster (Santa Fe, August)
Royal penstemon (Santa Fe, August)
Great mullein (Santa Fe, August)
Hoary vervain (Santa Fe, August)
Cane cholla (Santa Fe, August)
Menodora (Santa Fe, August)
White sweetclover (Santa Fe, August)
Craglily (Mount Taylor, August)
James’ penstemon (Mount Taylor, August)
Hoary stock (Mount Taylor, August)
Lewis flax (Mount Taylor, August)
Fewflower milkweed? (Mount Taylor, August)
Silvery lupine (Mount Taylor, August)
Palmer’s catchfly? (Mount Taylor, August)
Japanese gentian? (Mount Taylor, August)
Purple dead-nettle (Boston, May)
Wild lupine (Boston, May)
Cranberrybush viburnum (Watertown, May)
Menzies' baby blue eyes (Boston, May)
Goldmoss stonecrop (Boston, June)
Rose campion (Boston, June)
Moss flox (Boston, May)
Firewheel (Boston, June)
Blue plantain lily (Boston, July)
Pink lady slipper (Boston, May)
Creeping woodsorrel (Boston, May)
Virginia spiderwort (Brookline, May)
Garden star-of-Bethlehem (Boston, May)
Beach rose (Mashpee, May)
Red clover and meadow buttercup (Ashburnam, May)
Common chicory (Boston, June)
Plum blossom? (Boston, May)
Marsh marigold (Brookline, April)
Thyme-leaved speedwell (Boston, May)
Tatarian honeysuckle? (Newton, May)
Crimson clover (Boston, May)
Japanese Andromeda (Brookline, April)
Snowdrop (Brookline, February)
Crab apple blossom (Blue Hills, May)
Common blue violet (Boston, April)
Eastern redbud (Watertown, May)
Sticky sandspurry (Boston, May)
Purple-flowered raspberry (Blue Hills, July)
Large-leaved lupine (Brookline, June)
Common milkweed (Boston, June)
Bittersweet nightshade (Boston, June)
Bladder campion (Boston, June)
Daisy fleabane (Boston, June)
Perforate St. Johns-wort (Boston, June)
Dwarf mallow (Boston, June)
Mountain-laurel (Portland, ME, June)
Honeysuckle (Boston, June)
Paprika rose (Boston, June)
Tulip tree (Boston, June)
Purple top vervain (Boston, September)
Scarlet pimpernel (Boston, August)
Three leaves cinquefoil (Franconia, NH, August)
Fox-and-cubs (Ashburnam, July)
??? (Bridgewater, VT, July)
Field bindweed (Boston, July)
Yellow toadflax (Boston, July)
Purple loosestrife (Boston, June)
Pacific ninebark (Boston, June)
Great mullein (Boston, June)
Deptford pink (Boston, June)
Bird vetch (Boston, June)
Treacle mustard/wormseed wallflower (Boston, June)
Black chokeberry (Ashburnam, May)
Field rose (Boston, May)
Shrubby cinquefoil (Boston, May)
Germander speedwell (Watertown, May)
Starflower (Newton, May)
Staghorn sumac (Brookline, June)
Mouse-ear chickweed (Boston, May)
Yellow rocketcress (Boston, May)
Bluebells (Newton, May)
Garlic mustard (Boston, May)
Spring draba (Boston, May)
Japanese pachysandra (Boston, April)
Early crocus (Boston, March)
White wood aster (Hopkinton, September)
Orange jewelweed (Hopkinton, September)
New England aster (Cambridge, October)
Brownplume wirelettuce (Abiquiu, NM, August)