Wildflowers Along The Way
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Sharing a gallery of wildflowers I’ve discovered while exploring South Dakota’s Badlands and Black Hills.
I did my best to ID most of the flowers, and had help from Tom and Eliza in my comments, thanks! Please correct any I may have identified incorrectly, I appreciate it!
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#1 Gumbo Lily (Badlands)
#2 Shaggy Fleabane (Badlands)
#3 Narrowleaf Milkvetch (Badlands)
#4 – Field Pennycress (Badlands)
#5 Scarlet Globemallow (Badlands)
#6 – Scarlet Gaura (Badlands)
#7 Spreading Dogbane (Black Hills)
#8 Lady bugs covering Spreading Dogbane (Black Hills)
#9 Prairie Milkvetch (Black Hills)
#10 – Cinquefoil (Potentilla spp.) (Black Hills)
#11 Woods Rose (Black Hills)
#12 – Potentilla (Black Hills)
#13 – Rubus (Black Hills)
There’s a phone app called LeafSnap. You either take a photo of the plant or upload an already existing one and it will identify the plant for you.
Thank you for the info on the app! I will look into it for sure. I know birds pretty well, but flowers and plants I don’t! 🙂
Beautiful collection of wildflowers. I love taking photos of wildflowers. They can be so colourful and showy.
Thank you! I do too, I am good at getting distracted from birds easily. Wildflowers especially, then butterflies. 🙂
Beautiful wildflowers, Donna!
Thank you, Deborah!
You’re welcome! 😀
Thank you for sharing your wildflowers images , these are truly beautiful, Donna.
Thank you, Isabel! I’m not the best at IDing but I love seeing them striving in nature, smiling for us!
Super! Love to see wildflowers.
Thank you, Brian!
All wonderful photos! I do love wildflowers.
Lovely collection. By the way, for the flowers you haven’t been able to identify, have you try Bing Visual Search. You upload the picture of the flower you have taken and then Bing finds similar flowers that have been identified. I have been able to identify a number of wild flowers that way recently. It works miracle. (Suzanne)
Thank you, Suzanne, including for the link tip on flower IDing! I will definitely look into it, see if I can finish IDing my gallery!!
A lovely selection of wildflowers Donna.
Thank you, Ashley!
Might number 13 be a rubus?
I tried the Bing Visual Search Suzanne mentioned in her comment and it confirmed your ID. Thanks, Tom! 👍
I use Google lens.
I’ll check that one out too.
It works some of the time!
I recognize the fleabane, ,potentilla and the woods (prickly) rose (Alberta’s provincial flower)
Cool! I didn’t know any of these wildflowers. 🙂
These are lovely, Donna. As you know, I’m wild about flowers! 😉
Thank you, Eliza! I am so glad you are, I love your posts and your knowledge, you never cease to amaze me! 😊
Aw, thanks, Donna, it is in my DNA… 😉
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Beautiful! 🏵💮🌸🌺🌻💚
Thank you, Sue!
Lovely collection! Love the pretty, delicate-looking wild woods rose, native to North America. (The wild beach roses we have around here aren’t native and are invasive, even though they are beautiful.) I find indentifying wildflowers more challenging than identifying birds! Thanks for letting us see samples from a different botanical range.
Thank you, Barbara! I love seeing a wildflower pushing up and blooming, making sure it gets its turn to smile for us. 🙂 I didn’t know about wildflower ID links until mentioned by other commenters, where you can upload your photo and it IDs. I tried the links and they all work well! Going to use them from now on. 🙂
Amazing gallery of wild beauties, Donna!!
Thank you, Indira!!
Lovely finds and photos Donna
Thank you, Eddie!
That’s a nice project you gave yourself while in SD … and a great collection! I went on a great photo trip to both areas a couple of years ago, the last week in May. The Badlands were unusually green.
Thank you, Denise! We’ve been quite amazed with how both the Badlands and Black Hills are so lush in green in the spring too.
I like that Globemallow. Very interesting.
I use https://identify.plantnet.org/ a lot.
Thank you, Vic! I’ll add your link to my list, I’m armed now for any plant ID! 🙂
Welcome! 😁
Very Nice Series of images Donna! Enjoyed seeing them!
Thank you, Reed!