Please identify this tiny wildflower?

[Fire Walk With Me]

There doesn't seem to be a flora-oriented forum, so here goes:



Seen in Los Angeles, if that matters. I don't have any idea of where or how to look for the identity of this little one. Thank you for any assistance. Sorry that my tiny camera doesn't have better magnification.

Here's a nice yellow fellow just for grins:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Peake!

I have no idea, but it sure is pretty!

And the yellow one is lovely...

:hi:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. The yellow is just plain

oxalis - it's a huge weed in my yard. But the flowers are pretty. They come in yellow, white and pink.

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Thanks MonkeyFunk. I am struck by the depth of their yellow.

[Bear down under]

25. The yellow one

is Oxalis pes-caprae, the so-called Bermuda buttercup. (IIRC, it's actually from South Africa.) You're right about it being a bad weed in frost-free climates -- though I once saw a pot of it proudly displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show. In Britain it has to be cosseted to bring it through the winter.

Another vote for the blue one being a lupin, but I don't know enough about the genus to hazard a guess which one.

[XemaSab]

3. I can't see the foliage on the first one

but if the leaves are palmate (sorta like a pot plant), then it's probably a lupine.

[calimary]

4. That's what I was going to say. They grow all over the open lands in So Cal.

Nice purply-blue blossoms. Pretty.

[XemaSab]

5. Definitely a pea of some sort

and they're blooming like MAD right now in Santa Barbara County.

[zanne]

9. Lupine sounds right.

It has the color and form of a lupine.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Yes, it does look a lupine but the leaves would help with ID.

Picture of a different variety with leaves:

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. It can't be a lupine because there was absolutely no sign of Dennis Moore.

[Cabcere]

13. I can't decide

whether to love you for saying that, or be ticked off at you for saying it before me. :P So I'll go with the following set of conflicting smileys in an attempt to better convey my range of feelings regarding this incident: :yourock: :grr: :hug: :banghead: :thumbsup:

Well played, sir. :hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Sorry!

:hi: :hug:

[Cabcere]

18. It's cool

:hug: I'm actually pretty firmly entrenched on the "that is awesome" side, but for the sake of being a drama queen I had to bust out my librul outrayge. :silly: :toast: Peace.

[Firespirit]

16. I think it's this or a close relative

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76916609@N00/393256460

(Not my photo)

It's very pretty!

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. I believe that's it! It IS a lupine!

Thanks! :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Points to the Sab for getting it right!

[XemaSab]

21. .

:thumbsup:

[rateyes]

6. Looks like what, in Texas, they call "Bluebonnet."

[XemaSab]

23. "Bluebonnet" and "lupine"

are closely related. :)

[suninvited]

7. Does this look like the same flower?

This is a tiny flower that grows wild here in Texas called a Calypso Orchid.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. That's larger and has fronds. The one I found is smaller than a dime, flower-wise.

Thank you to every one for posting replies!

[MorningGlow]

11. What are flowers?

Sorry. Cabin fever, temps in the 30s aiming for low 40s today, and still snow on the ground.

Tell me again why I live in the Northeast. GAAAAAAhhhhhhhh...

Seriously--preeeeetty pictures. Sorry I can't help identify the posies.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. The flowers are for those who need reminding of what's to come.

And the warm climes of LA are overrated- That Eagles song "Hotel California" is actually correct!

But the flowers almost make up for it, so one tends to pay more attention to them...Hope your winter ends shortly!

[MorningGlow]

17. I do understand

My brother lives in Riverside. He mocks our spring snowstorms, and I mock his 90-degree spring temps and brown skyline. 'Course, I shouldn't laugh--it's gonna be even uglier when we visit him in July...

[applegrove]

24. I like the yellow one the best. Great pics.