Take a Walk on the Wild(flower) side...name it...

After a fairly rotten day at work with massive call-ins and comming home to an unsuccessful attempt to get a tree down, that we need down , to do some building....

SO...inspired by Ellie's trillum pics...

I quickly shrugged off everything, hoisted my overalls, pulled on my boots...and with shovel and camera in hand went hunting...

I am still trying to learn the names, and which ones have surface roots or deep tap roots..

and exactly how to get to some of them( may have to have other half tie a rope to me and drop me down before it gets too snakey here)

Keeping an eye out for mushrooms too...none so far for me...but the guy who is trimming trees for the elec. company came by the other day and just had to wave two huge morels in our face...the B****** ROFLAO....

I guess it just proves..dont have to be too exciting to amuse me....

SO can you name that wildflower?

lousewort

a variety of trillum

bluestar(commonname)

pussytoe

queen annes lace?

may apple?

jacobs ladder?

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dark faery Apr 26, 2008, 11:57pm EDT

very very green!

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Joan O. Apr 27, 2008, 8:54am EDT

I'm not great with wild flower names although I do enjoy a nature walk and looking at them. I do know trilliums, dwarf irisis, Jack in the Pulpits, and Lady Slippers since we have lots of those. I also learned Indian Paint Brushes since they are plentiful at my mom in laws but I'd never saw them here. We both live in the same county but at opposite ends. Love to hear what these are called.

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arlene m. Apr 28, 2008, 2:39am EDT

this post is so green.lol

Arlene,
Federal Way florist

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Kathy W. Apr 30, 2008, 1:36am EDT

Tell ya what, chicaletta, I noticed you have an ABUNDANCE of rock. How bout I trade you several bags of high quality garden soil for a couple of dem rocks? I could use some 'round my trees, and looks to me like you could use a little extra soil.

LOL.
Beaut shots as always. You must have been running around, peeping under, crawling over, sliding through as you took these shots.

Watch out for 'em snaikes!
Kat

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Lou Anne L. Apr 30, 2008, 9:42am EDT

we are all about rocks here in the ozarks...LOL....
One of my favorite things to do when the boys were preteens was to hike into the very deep hollers, down to natural springs when the chill was still on and the foliage was not up yet...it is an amazing world..
yes hunting wildflower can be risking meeting a snake....being noisey helps...they REALLY dont want to meet you...
the risky part is geting close enough to the flowers to snap a pic....you are kinda at their level..
we have had only one snake so far....and it is the garden snake that lives on my property who is totally welcome..came out one day only so far....
snakes are teritorial in this respect...ifyou have good ones the venomous ones stay away

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