#Virginia bluebells

[geopsych]

Virginia bluebells starting to open in the garden.

#pennsylvania #flowers #native plants #native wildflowers #garden #gardeners on tumblr #virginia bluebells #mertensia virginica #april #springtime #plants #plantblr

[oliviarosaline]

Wildflowers flourishing along a tranquil Ozarkian trail. It was a blessing to enjoy this beautiful place where the sun kissed spots of the blue forest floor and only the sound of bird songs and soft wind whispered through the trees. The blue-eyed mary (Collinsia verna) and virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) thriving on the forest floor are both native spring ephemerals found throughout the central and eastern parts of North America.

April 17th, 2023

Washington County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

#nature #woods #naturecore #fairycore #cottagecore #missouri #ozarks #the ozarks #forest #flowers #forest floor #wildflowers #spring #spring flowers #Virginia bluebells #blue-eyed mary #Mertensia virginica #collinsia verna #collinsia #mertensia #landscape #landscape photography #flower photography #nature photography #forest photography #hiking missouri #trail #hiking

[campodefiori9]

Virginia bluebells flowers and Blue Jay.

Near greywacke arch, Central park.

#bird #blue jay #virginia bluebells #flowers #central park #new york

[keezybees]

#virginia bluebells #bluebells #flower #watercolor #blue #pink #art

[vandaliatraveler]

A few more treasures from my hike this past weekend in Core Arboretum. I’ve posted detailed descriptions of these ephemerals in the past. So if you want to learn more about these wildflowers, go to my main blog page and search on the plant's common name.  You’ll also be rewarded with higher resolution photos.  :-)

From top: sessile trillium (Trillium sessile); dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne); twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla); Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica); Virginia spring beauty (Claytonia virginica); harbinger of spring (Erigenia bulbosa); cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata); Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria); yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum); and great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum). 

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #spring #early april #wildflowers #spring ephemerals #core arboretum #sessile trillium #dwarf larkspur #twinleaf #virginia bluebells #virginia spring beauty #harbinger of spring #cutleaf toothwort #dutchman's breeches #yellow trout lily #great white trillium

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)

Blue flowers are relatively rare. Most incline to violet or else are quite small. But Virginia bluebells are a striking exception. All my photos from my garden, unedited.

I'm not kidding. They really are that blue naturally. They bloom in May. Then they slowly decline and the entire plants are gone above soil by the summer. Only to reappear the following spring! The shoots and flower buds are edible. You don't want to take too much, though. As spring ephemerals, they need the energy they make with their leaves during their short growing period. The short bloom period is also why I don't have more photos of them. They don't even bloom every year.

#photography #my photos #blackswallowtailbutterfly #Virginia bluebells #Mertensia virginica #flowers #blue flowers #wildflowers #gardening #native species #North American native plants #edible wild plants #my garden #native plants of Ontario and the northeastern USA #spring ephemerals

[theroadtofairyland]

Belles

Watercolor on Birch Panel

2022, 11"x 14"

Virginia Bluesbells, Mertensia virginica

#artists on tumblr #floral #flowers #art #watercolor #painting #nature #minimalism #virginia bluebells #blue #bluebells #mertensia #wildflowers #plants #plant #plantblr #artwork #green #botany #artist #minimal #artblr #contemporary art #cottagecore aesthetic #cottagecore

[redwrencreative]

Happy 13th day of Pride Month! We have a Green Broadbill nestled in a bunch of Virginia Bluebells for you today, representing Polysexual Pride🩷💚🩵

#happy pride 🌈 #pride #pride birds #art #illustration #pride 2023 #pride month #procreate #birds #polysexual #polysexual pride #green broadbill #virginia bluebells #flowers

[aphermion]

Virginia Bluebells

#flowers #spring flowers #spring #purple flowers #blue flowers #virginia bluebells #Photography

[faguscarolinensis]

Mertensia virginica / Virginia Bluebells at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

#Mertensia virginica #Mertensia #Boraginaceae #Virginia Bluebells #Virginia cowslip #Lungwort oysterleaf #Roanoke bells #Native plants #Native flowers #Flowers #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Sarah P. Duke Gardens #Duke Gardens #Duke University #Durham #Durham NC #North Carolina

[tinyurbanwilderness]

Some things in my yard. I cultivated some, others are growing wild.

#nature #certified yard habitat #yard habitat #spring #spring ephemerals #plant native #native plants #native plants of north america #prairie trillium #trillium recurvatum #virginia bluebells #mertensia viginica #Dutchman’s breeches #dicentra cucullaria #Podophyllum peltatum #mayapple #fungi #fungicore

[geopsych]

Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica, in the garden.

#pennsylvania #garden #mertensia virginica #virginia bluebells #april #gardeners on tumblr #wildflowers #native wildflowers

[bonlynx]

Bell 🛎

#world watercolor month #watercolor #art #nature #illustration #painting #artist #bluebells #virginia bluebells #flowers #floral

[61below]

For still there are so many things

that I have never seen:

in every wood in every spring

there is a different green.

#meanwhile in minnesota #whitewater state park #Carly state park #driftless #Virginia bluebells

[oakmoss-fairy]

#virginia bluebells #spring #spring flowers #spring 2023 #my photography #canon rebel t7 #macro lens #nature #landscapes #nature photograph #beltane #i love my new macro lens!!

[vandaliatraveler]

Early spring on Dunkard Creek.  From top: early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis); great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum); Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria); rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides); hispid buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus); red trillium (Trillium erectum); twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla); and Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica).

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #april #spring #wildflowers #dunkard creek #mason-dixon historical park #early saxifrage #great white trillium #dutchman's breeches #rue anemone #hispid buttercup #red trillium #purple trillium #wake robin #twinleaf #virginia bluebells