Flowers are the smiles of nature!
Rock roses have a peculiar flower petal texture looking like crumpled paper.
Flowers of a Chinese Lantern plant
Close up on the flowers of a Pride of Madeira
The fragile leaves of a California Golden Poppy
Echinopsis oxygona blooms open at night and usually only last one or two days.
A peach colored rose with silky textured petals.
A California Bluebell in contrast to the California Golden Poppy
Closeup of a California Bluebell
Painted Lady butterflies resting and feeding on large flowered phacelias.
Looking closely at the chaparral yucca show the wax like flowers that attract birds and insect.
Golden Poppies and Bluebells are competing in a show off of color and beauty.
The desert floor in bloom with Purplemat (nama demissum).
Tiny flowers of chia sage.
Peach and apricot colored rose petals.
Minute flowers on a Gilia
Desert Stars are covering the rocky desert floor.
Desert flowers and grasses in bloom.
The flowers of barrel cactus are frequented by bees and other nectar drinking insects.
Purple Clarkia
A group of desert stars.
A Charming Centaury (zeltnera venusta), an annual herb that is native to California.
Soft petals on a peach colored rose in evening light.
California Checkerbloom (Sidalcea malviflora subsp. californica) soaking up the sun.
Flower heads of Blue Dicks.
Echinopsis flower in the sun (echinopsis oxygona)
Dichelostemma capitatum, known by the common names blue dicks, purplehead and brodiaea.
An unidentified white flowering bush loaded with blossoms.
A light peach colored rose with perfect petal arrangement.
A The Queen of Spain fritillary, a migratory species, is widespread in most of Europe. Seen here with field scabious and two other European native wildflowers in Southern Germany.
Chaparral Bush-Mallow, native to southern California and northern Baja California.
Soft light provided good contrast on this rose.
The sticky monkey-flower (Diplacus aurantiacus) is a member of the lopseed family,
An echinopsis flower showing off its pink petals (echinopsis oxygona)
A type of thistle (milk thistle?) being visited by an insect.
Petals are opening on a two colored rose.
Soft evening sunlight on a large cactus flower
Field of California Golden Poppies
Cherry Blossom on an old growth tree.
A cornflower in it's wheat field in Southern Germany.