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.
Checkered White butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan
Title: Checkered White butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Native
Black-eyed Susan with a tiny caterpillar
Title: Black-eyed Susan with a tiny caterpillar
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Native
Black-eyed Susan with possible Coneflower Mining Bee
Title: Black-eyed Susan with possible Coneflower Mining Bee
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Native
Buttonbush and a fly at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge
Title: Buttonbush and a fly at Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Native
Blooming Buttonbush at Tishomingo NWR
Title: Blooming Buttonbush at Tishomingo NWR
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/6/2024
Native
Blooming Fourpoint Evening Primrose
Title: Blooming Fourpoint Evening Primrose
Location: Marshall County, Oklahoma
Date: 6/2/2024
Native
Upright Prairie Coneflower and a Gray Hairstreak butterfly
Title: Upright Prairie Coneflower and a Gray Hairstreak butterfly
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/27/2024
Native
Gray Hairstreak butterfly nectaring on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Title: Gray Hairstreak butterfly nectaring on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/27/2024
Native
Orange Sulphur butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan
Title: Orange Sulphur butterfly on a Black-eyed Susan
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/27/2024
Native
Spring Gray Hairstreak butterfly on a Upright Prairie Coneflower
Title: Spring Gray Hairstreak butterfly on a Upright Prairie Coneflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/27/2024
Native
Gray Hairstreak on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Title: Gray Hairstreak on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/27/2024
Native
Oaks and sky – Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit
Title: Oaks and sky – Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit
Location: Tishomingo Wildlife Management Unit, Oklahoma
Date: 5/18/2024
Native
Phaon Crescent butterfly on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Title: Phaon Crescent butterfly on an Upright Prairie Coneflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/18/2024
Native
Orange Sulphur butterfly on a coneflower
Title: Orange Sulphur butterfly on a coneflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/18/2024
Native
Blooming Green Antelopehorns at Tishomingo NWR
Title: Blooming Green Antelopehorns at Tishomingo NWR
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/15/2024
Native
Green Antelopehorns milkweed in bloom
Title: Green Antelopehorns milkweed in bloom
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/15/2024
Native
Green Antelopehorns at Tishomingo NWR
Title: Green Antelopehorns at Tishomingo NWR
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/15/2024
Native
Blooming Common Yarrow in morning light
Title: Blooming Common Yarrow in morning light
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Johnston County, Oklahoma
Date: 5/15/2024
Native
Roadside Texas Paintbrush
Title: Roadside Texas Paintbrush
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/18/2024
Native
Common Checkered-Skipper butterfly at Tishomingo NWR
Title: Common Checkered-Skipper butterfly at Tishomingo NWR nectaring on an Upright Prairie Cornflower
Location: Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
Date: 5/11/2024
Native