RHH's photos with the keyword: pudica

One of the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring, this is Fritillaria pudica, Yellow Bells. We have seen no signs of spring yet and are waiting eagerly the first wildflowers.

This is one of the first wildflowers to bloom, Yellow Bells or Fritillaria pudica.

The wildflowers are starting to bloom here and we spent quite a bit of time photographing them yesterday. These Yellow Bells bloom with the Sagebrush Buttercups, always the first wildflowers of spring followed closely by the Grass Widows and Lomatiums. These Yellow Bells are one of our favorites and are usually found on sagebrush prairies, often growing in and under the sagebrush. The insets show them closer up.

These small wildflowers are usually single, but occasionally double-flowered. We photographed these on the prairie near Fishtrap Lake while hiking this past week. Theya re some of the first spring wildflowers.

I believe the dark red color of this flower is due to the fact that it is nearly finished blooming. The flowers when fresh are bright yellow, sometimes with red markings. They are some of the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring and are appropriately named Yellow Bells.

These small wildflowers are appropriately named and are one of the flowers we always look for in the spring. They gloom just after the Sagebrush Buttercups, always the first wildflowers.

This is the third wildflower we've found this spring, which is coming very slowly. They are Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica. We've only found half a dozen flowers so far, but know where to find more. The drops are the aftermath of a heavy rainstorm and I was very muddy and wet when finished photographing these.

Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica, grows all over eastern Washington, but it blooms early, is quite small, and so its blooms are sometimes missed.

Fritillaria pudica, Yellow Bells, ranges from the Mexican border through Alberta and British Columbia and from the Rockies west. It is small, early-blooming, tends to grow in low brush and is rather easily overlooked. Not all the flowers have the maroon markings.

Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica, are one of my favorite wildflowers. The grow in open, dry areas and flower in the spring. This was one of a very few we found still blooming in the area of Medical Lake, Washington, where we inadvertently also found a lot of ticks.

This, too, was photographed on the grounds of the conference center in Pahang. It is a low-growing, creeping plant, but I had no references and was not able to identify it at the time. Barbol has identified it as Mimosa pudica (probably) and the description of that species fits this exactly. Thanks for the id, but I'm a little disappointed that one of the few flowers I had opportunity to photograph turns out to be an invasive weed from South America!

A few of these were growing in the same field as the Grass Widows in the next post. We had photographed them the day before in the Ancient Lakes area of eastern Washington. Those had very little or none of the red color that these flowers had. They are Fritillaria pudica, Yellow Bells. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/grass-widow...

One of the wildflowers we had hoped to see on our first hike of the spring, and did see, was Fritillaria pudica, or Yellow Bells. It is one of our earliest wildflowers and we had missed it in previous years for that reason and because it grows in eastern Washington, but not on our side of the state. We found a few of them at Ancient Lakes and then found them again in Reecer Creek Canyon northwest of Ellensburg, Washington. It is supposed to grow up to a foot tall, but those we saw were only a few inches. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/ancient-lak...

One more picture of this delightful spring wildflower, this time from Reecer Creek Canyon. Yellow Bells are Fritillaria pudica, a small species from eastern Washington. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/reecer-cree...