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.
Ripe Utah Serviceberry berries
Title: Ripe Utah Serviceberry berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/5/2018
Native
Great Spangled Fritillary female on a Musk Thistle
Title: Great Spangled Fritillary female on a Musk Thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
The thistle is non-native
Female Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring on Musk Thistle
Title: Female Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring on Musk Thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
The thistle is non-native
Least Chipmunk nibbling on a Utah Serviceberry berry
Title: Least Chipmunk nibbling on a Utah Serviceberry berry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
Native
Least Chipmunk in a Utah Serviceberry shrub
Title: Least Chipmunk in a Utah Serviceberry shrub
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/26/2018
Native
Musk Thistle with dark background
Title: Musk Thistle with dark background
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/6/2018
Nonnative
Musk Thistle in bloom
Title: Musk Thistle in bloom
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/6/2018
Nonnative
Musk Thistle in morning light
Title: Musk Thistle in morning light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/6/2018
Nonnative
Common Mullein in bloom
Title: Common Mullein in bloom
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/6/2018
Nonnative
Blooming Common Mullein
Title: Blooming Common Mullein
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/6/2018
Nonnative
Perched Gray Catbird with Black Twinberry berries
Title: Perched Gray Catbird with Black Twinberry berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2018
Native
Gray Catbird with Black Twinberry berries in its bill
Title: Gray Catbird with Black Twinberry berries in its bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2018
Native
Black Twinberry shrub close up
Title: Black Twinberry shrub close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2018
Native
Black Twinberry showing the berries
Title: Black Twinberry showing the berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/20/2018
Native
Blooming Blue Elderberry
Title: Blooming Blue Elderberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Native
Blue Elderberry flower buds
Title: Blue Elderberry flower buds
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Native
Lewis’s Flax in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Lewis’s Flax in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Native
Lewis’s Flax in shade
Title: Lewis’s Flax in shade
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Native
Juvenile Mountain Bluebird perched on a Utah Serviceberry bush
Title: Juvenile Mountain Bluebird perched on a Utah Serviceberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2018
Native
Cynoglossum officinale – Hound’s Tongue
Title: Cynoglossum officinale – Hound’s Tongue
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/8/2018
Nonnative