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**sollat** @sollat@masto.ai · 4h *

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sollat @sollat@masto.ai

Not actually a lily. Very interesting native plant. Camassia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camassia

en.m.wikipedia.orgCamassia - Wikipedia

#Gardening #NativePlants #Camassia

**le Pétomane Ancien** @lePetomaneAncien@fosstodon.org · 5h

le Pétomane Ancien @lePetomaneAncien@fosstodon.org

Not much to see here.Look closely for emerging tufts of grass. Last fall I torched 1000 sq ft of turf in my yard and sowed it with a pollinator-friendly mix of Dutch clover, fescue, creeping thyme, and self-heal. The goal is to support pollinators while looking like a suburban lawn.
#Pollinators #NativePlants

A couple square feet from a 1000 square feet planting of pollinator-friendly lawn. It shows a few tufts of emerging grass but I'm proud of every blade!

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 21h

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Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Look at all the tiny leaves getting ready to unfurl. Bracken fern fiddlehead (Pteridium aquilinum) in Cowen Park, Seattle, WA
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW

A tender green bracken fern fiddlehead unfurls in the woods, with several small leaves below the still rolled up head. Looking closely at the head, you can see the details of the tiny leaves tightly packed together. The fiddlehead is set among older sword fern and duff with moss

**Susan Ramirez** @boxofdelights@wandering.shop · 23h

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Susan Ramirez @boxofdelights@wandering.shop

First day of volunteering at the #Xeriscape Demonstration Garden today! I got to pet and groom many #NativePlants just waking up for #spring. I also disturbed a sleeping #YellowJacket queen, but she did not sting me. And I moved a tiny #PrayingMantis to a plant that had already been cut back.

Now I have to finish reading In Cold Blood for Classics book group tonight. Two social things in one day! That is too many things. According to the dogs, anyway.
#bookstodon #AmReading

**Ryan M** @rpmik@avgeek.social · 1d

Ryan M @rpmik@avgeek.social

Random unexplained photo of a very narrow part of our backyard #BloomScrolling #Ceanothus #NativePlants #Yarden #Fujifilm #SOoC

A Ceanothus branch with clusters of small, light purple flowers and shiny green leaves. The bokeh background is wooden fence with sunlight streaming through.

**K. Lauren de Boer** @klauren@sfba.social · 1d *

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K. Lauren de Boer @klauren@sfba.social

Black-tailed bumble bee bumbling his way over our ceonothus. The honey bees outnumber them 20 to 1, but they are real troupers. The plant is swarming with them, as well as other pollinators. So good to see…
#bees #naturephotography #naturelovers #nativeplants #pollinators #flowerphotography #flowers

**Climate Jenny 2.1** @ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social · 1d

Climate Jenny 2.1 @ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social

THIS is what’s happening. #NativePlants

Cut-leaved Toothwort, a spring ephemeral with pretty lavender bell-shaped flowers.

A Field Pansy, a native violet with a deep purple and yellow flower.

Yellow flowers on Spicebush, a native shrub.

Flowers of the Smooth Alder tree, both cute little ruddy pinecone-shaped inflorescences. The lower one is a male flower (the apparent dust might be pollen it produced) and the top flower is female (will produce fruit).

**Jake Rayson** @natureworks@mas.to · 1d

Jake Rayson @natureworks@mas.to

"This is not how it looks"

Lady's Smock near #HopeGarden, #Pembrokeshire, #Cymru

Filtered faded photo of 4 petalled whiteish flower

#NativePlants

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 2d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

I finally spotted the swamp lanterns, aka skunk cabbage. growing along the trails and stream banks. There were a lot of them! A celebratory spring photo of Lysichiton americanus in Seattle
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #CowenPark #OlmstedParks

A bright yellow skunk cabbage flower spadix pushes out of its yellow spathe. It is growing out of a cluster of large, intensely green, oval leaves which will soon be the largest leaves in the area. This plant was growing on the side of a trail in muddy soil, surrounded by ferns and plant duff.

**Native Plants Unlimited** @Nativeplantsunlimited@mastodon.social · 2d *

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Native Plants Unlimited @Nativeplantsunlimited@mastodon.social

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Who do you hear in your dawn chorus?

Merlin app interface displaying bird identification suggestions- Eastern Bluebird, Carolina Chickadee, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, American Robin, and White-throated Sparrow.

http://merlinbirdid.com Explore the world of birds with Merlin Bird ID!

Pair of bluebirds scouting a nest site in a tree stump

#indiana #nativeplants #indianapolis

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 2d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

We found one pale pink salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) bush in bloom, promising insipid fruit in fall. Although the birds love them. No accounting for taste.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #CowenPark #OlmstedParks #NativePlants #PNW

A backlit pale pink five petaled flower hangs at the top of an almost leafless branch in the dappled light of the woods' understory . Its green sepals curve outwards a bit. Inside you can see its anthers still bent over the nascent berry.

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**J blue** @jblue@mastodon.world · 2d *

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J blue @jblue@mastodon.world

This is a field full of them. They look like blue glitter when you’re out walking.

Houstonia pusilla, tiny bluet

A close-up view of a field covered with small purple flowers and scattered dry grass. The flowers are blooming among green leaves, contributing to a vibrant natural scene.

#nature #NativePlants #garten

**J blue** @jblue@mastodon.world · 2d

J blue @jblue@mastodon.world

They’re so cute.

Tiny bluets are one of the first native wild flowers to bloom in spring here. Companion planted these with a hackberry tree seedling.

Houstonia pusilla

A close-up of a yellow pot filled with small purple flowers with magenta centers and green leaves, along with fallen leaves and mulch. The flowers have four petals and look like tiny stars.

#gardening #nature #NativePlants

**Carolannie** @carolannie@c.im · 2d

Carolannie @carolannie@c.im

Here they are again! Arctic sweet coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus) on a warm sunny PNW day. I decided the dog and I should check out the muddy trails to see if anything was finally blooming, and anything was!
#Photography #NativePlants #SeattleWashington #CowenPark #SeattleOlmstedParks

Arctic sweet coltsfoot or butterburr is blooming amid its big palmate leaves in Cowen Park. The flowers are collected in an umbel of composite blooms. Each composite is made of pink to white tubular flowers tightly packed together, a bit like dandelions. These plants like swampy soil, which I once discovered my to my chagrin. The dog was pretty well muddled up too.

**jrm.rsok.com** @jrm.rsok.com@bsky.brid.gy · 3d

jrm.rsok.com @jrm.rsok.com@bsky.brid.gy

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) near Symphoricarpos orbiculatus and Smilax in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on Feb. 23, 2025 Camera settings I used making this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Feb... #dark_eyed_junco #Junco #nativeplants #wildlifephotography #buckbrush #greenbriar #Oklahoma

A Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) was standing on a small stick that was lying on the ground near Symphoricarpos orbiculatus and Smilax in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on February 23, 2025. The Smilax had been eaten nearly to the ground by deer.

**JohnMoyer** @johnmoyer@okla.social · 3d

JohnMoyer @johnmoyer@okla.social

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) near Symphoricarpos orbiculatus and Smilax in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on February 23, 2025

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Feb28_birds_and_cats/2025feb23_junco_IMG_2825c.html

#dark_eyed_junco #Junco #nativeplants

**nightdream** @nightdream@sfba.social · 3d

nightdream @nightdream@sfba.social

The California native wildflower bed is starting to do things.

$A bit of garden soil with the bottom of a concrete wall visible at the rear and a lot of new sprouting greenery like a teenagers peach fuzz starting to emerge. There are some grass like leaves or California poppies will come up and some star shaped leaves where Lupin may grow. There’s also some more complex fractal like leaves and I cannot remember what those are. The wildflower seed mix package is in another room so I can’t even guess. There are several rows of bamboo kitchen skewers and started at angles at regular intervals to discourage neighborhood cats from digging$

#gardening #flowers #NativePlants

**Daniel** @danielthedaring · 3d

Daniel @danielthedaring

I've been seeing both of these species popping up on iNat back in Louisiana, and it's got me daydreaming about spring ephemerals and wondering what I might find and learn here in Oregon as we have our warmest day of the year so far.

I wrote this last year about a little plant and a little butterfly & being surprised by the little things that can just pop up if we let them be here and take the time to appreciate them when they are.

https://daniel.observer/journal/bittercress-and-butterflies

daniel.observerBittercress and Butterflies

#insects #NativePlants #iNaturalist