Flowers, shrubs and trees, seeds and leaves.
Long before I became a bird photographer one of my passions was photographing flowers whether they were cultivated or wild. Some of my first digital images taken with my Sony Mavica were of flowers and flowering shrubs and trees that I grew in my backyard. That seems so very long ago and many cameras ago too.
Some of these photos also include birds, animals, insects, spiders and bees that were on the plant, shrub, or tree when I photographed them.
Plants, trees, shrubs, bushes, and wildflowers that are native are noted as such below, introduced nonnatives are noted as nonnative. Garden variety and cultivated plants and flowers are not noted.
I hope that you enjoy viewing my photos of flowers, shrubs and tree photos.
Blooming Common Mullein in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Blooming Common Mullein in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2021
Nonnative
Blue Elderberry blossoms
Title: Blue Elderberry blossoms
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/15/2021
Native
Blooming Blue Elderberry in Summit County, Utah
Title: Blooming Blue Elderberry in Summit County, Utah
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/15/2021
Native
Two-tailed Swallowtail nectaring on Showy Milkweed
Title: Two-tailed Swallowtail nectaring on Showy Milkweed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2021
Native
Two-tailed Swallowtail on Showy Milkweed
Title: Two-tailed Swallowtail on Showy Milkweed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/12/2021
Native
Musk Thistle with two bee species on it
Title: Musk Thistle with two bee species on it
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/7/2021
Non-native
Ripe Black Twinberry Honeysuckle berries
Title: Ripe Black Twinberry Honeysuckle berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/29/2021
Native
Creekside grasses going to seed
Title: Creekside grasses going to seed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/18/2021
Grass going to seed in Morgan County, Utah
Title: Grass going to seed in Morgan County, Utah
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/18/2021
Flowering Lewis’s Flax
Title: Flowering Lewis’s Flax
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Native
Close up Lewis’s Flax
Title: Close up Lewis’s Flax
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Native
Lewis’s Flax single bloom
Title: Lewis’s Flax single bloom
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Native
Blooming Lewis’s Flax with a tiny beetle
Title: Blooming Lewis’s Flax with a tiny beetle
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Native
Blooming Lewis’s Flax with a bee
Title: Blooming Lewis’s Flax with a bee
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2021
Native
Close up of blooming Mountain Goldenbanner
Title: Close up of blooming Mountain Goldenbanner
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/1/2021
Native
Mountain Goldenbanner in bloom close up
Title: Mountain Goldenbanner in bloom close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/1/2021
Native
Blooming Black Twinberry Honeysuckle close up
Title: Blooming Black Twinberry Honeysuckle close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/1/2021
Native
West Desert junipers, mountains and clouds
Title: West Desert junipers, mountains and clouds
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/26/2021
Native
Clump of blooming Common Dandelions
Title: Clump of blooming Common Dandelions
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2021
May be native Taraxacum officinale ceratophorum, might not be.
Blooming Dandelions in East Canyon
Title: Blooming Dandelions in East Canyon
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2021
May be native Taraxacum officinale ceratophorum, might not be.