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White Wildflowers 126 images Created 3 Apr 2012

Images of white wildflowers found and photographed across North America.
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  • A close-up of a western trillium at the top of Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains in Washington.
    Western Trillium
  • While this flower is common all over the western half of the United States and parts of Canada, this unusually pale and nearly white version was found growing west of Sweetwater, Wyoming among several other species of subalpine wildflowers on a very chilly summer day..
    Rocky Mountain Iris
  • Iconic symbol of the Sonoran Desert and the American Southwest - and the state flower of Arizona, this saguaro cactus is in full bloom in Southern Arizona near the Mexican border below the Puerto Blanco Mountains.
    Saguaro Blossoms!
  • This beautiful member of the carnation family is not native to North America, but is so widespread that it is now called naturalized instead of invasive. This one was photographed in King County, Washington.
    White Campion
  • From the Caribbean and the Gulf Coast of Mexico to the Carolinas, the beach morning glory is a white, large flowering vine comon on the sandy beaches of the Southeast. This one was one of many blooming early on a springtime Florida morning on St. George Island.
    Beach Morning Glory
  • Close-up of the flowers of the largest yuccas in Western Texas, the giant dagger yucca (Yucca faxoniana). Blooming in April, it can grow to over 20 feet tall and have flower stalks weighing over 70 pounds with a thousand or more flowers! This one was photographed in Big Bend National Park near the Texas/Mexico border.
    Giant Dagger Yucca Flowers
  • The western serviceberry is a native member of the rose family that grows as a small compact shrub. If North America was divided diagonally NW/SE - this service berry would be common in the NW part - especially in Western Canada. This one was photographed<br />
 in its extreme southern range in Northwestern Wyoming.
    Western Serviceberry
  • Also known as the coastalplain spiderlily, this water-loving member of the amaryllis family is found in wet, soggy soils in the American Southeast, often along streams, ponds, lakes, and rivers. This one was found next to a stream in a very remote rural forest in Grady County, Georgia on a sweltering, humid summer day.
    Coastal Carolina Spiderlily
  • The St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Panhandle is a sanctuary for a very delicate ecosystem comprised of freshwater ponds and rivers, salt marsh and a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico coast. Just above the brackish water region, thousands of these fragrant waterlilies can be found in full bloom, all at the same time!
    Fragrant Waterlily
  • The bunchberry is a very attractive member of the dogwood family found in all of the Northern States of the USA (plus Colorado and New Mexico) and all of Canada, Greenland, as well as many parts of Asia in thick, damp coniferous or mixed hardwood forests where openings in the canopy allow for some sunlight to filter down to the ground. Very adaptable in growing habits, it is found from the coastline a to as high up as the edge of the tundra.
    Bunchberry
  • This gorgeous desert bloomer with orchid-like flowers is actually a member of the bignonia family, and is interesting taxonomically because it is the sole species of its genus: Chilopsis. Found across much of the American Southwest (and also in the state of Georgia) it has become an important drought-tolerant landscape plant in many places where water is often scarce. This one was found by following the sound of buzzing bees in a canyon in the Colorado Desert near California's Salton Sea.
    Desert Willow
  • Alligator Lily in the Big Cypress National Preserve. These are very common in summer when the prairies are completely flooded in the middle of the wet season.
    Alligator Lily
  • The prickly poppy growing in the Pawnee National Grasslands in northeastern Colorado under a big summer sky. The sharp spiny leaves will leave a lasting stinging sensation.
    Prickly Poppy
  • A very common sight on the lower slopes of the Cascades Mountains, the false Solomon's seal is a very common meber of the lily family. This one was photographed in the forest on the southern slope of Mount Hood in Oregon.
    False Solomon's Seal
  • These absolutely beautiful springtime evening primroses stand out in sharp contrast against the red sands of Nevada's Valley of Fire, just east of Las Vegas.
    Dune Evening Primrose
  • This unlikely member of the lily family is easily overlooked. Tiny white flowers, low growth, and most often-unnoticed as green forest carpeting, this extremely adaptable water-loving perennial can be found all over Canada, and almost all over the United States except for Texas and the Southeastern states.
    Star Solomon's Seal
  • Waterlily photographed in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. There were literally hundreds of them.
    Fragrant Waterlily
  • Found in the eastern and western thirds of North America, Carolina bugbane is absent from the center of the continent. Carolina bugbane is most often found growing in wet mountain meadows and wet forests from medium to high elevations, such as this one on Washington's Mount Rainier.
    Carolina Bugbane
  • The thimbleberry is a very common fruiting plant in the Pacific NW, well known for its sweet and tasty red raspberry-like thimbleberries.
    Thimbleberry
  • A springtime favorite, this trio of western trilliums (Trillium ovatum) was found growing next to Lewis Creek in Bellevue, Washington - just south of Cougar Mountain. Like many wildflowers and forbs of moist, damp forests in the Pacific Northwest, these trilliums depend on ants for pollination.
    Trio of Trilliums!
  • One of the very first small trees to flower in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the Indian plum is a very attractive springtime bloomer shat decorates the wet forests with tiny cascades of white in lovely contrast with the deep green of the forest trees.
    Indian Plum
  • Closeup of salal flowers next to Deep Lake near Enumclaw, WA. Found in many places across the Pacific Northwest, this common native woody shrub is found in forests and woodlands and is of great historical importance to the native tribes who have inhabited the region for thousands of years. The delicious, intensely sweet edible berries that will come later in the summer were used to make dried cakes that would provide nourishment throughout the winter. It is said that cakes of pure salal were reserved solely for the chiefs to eat, and anyone else had to have theirs mixed with other local berries, such as huckleberries or elderberries as was the custom.
    Salal
  • One of the most interesting facts about the mock-orange is the fact that it develops different properties based on where it is found in the wild. Because of the varying habitats where it is found, Native Americans of different tribes and geological locations had very different uses for this same shrub. Some used the wood for making strong and straight arrow shafts. Others made reliable and sturdy digging sticks with them. One of the most amazing characteristics is that if you crush the leaves and flowers together between your hands and keep rubbing, you will create a soapy lather, great for bathing! This one was found blooming next to the Yakima River in Kittitas County, Washington.
    Mock-Orange
  • This western species of ground dogwood is a very common forest ground covering plant that can form  vast carpets of green throughout the damp forests of the Pacific Northwest. These white flowers will soon become bright-red berries which historically were an important food source for Native Americans. This was photographed in the forest near the shore of Trillium Lake on the southern side of Mount Hood's Peak in Oregon.
    Bunchberry
  • A water lily with lilypads on a hot summer day on Lake Jackson in Leon County, Florida.
    Water Lily
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