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Yellow Wildflowers 43 images Created 2 Apr 2012

Images of yellow wildflowers found and photographed across Florida by wildlife photographer Rich Leighton.
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  • Springtime helenium growing on the side of a highway in the Apalachicola National Forest.
    Springtime Helenium
  • Dramatic photograph of a lotus with approaching storm.
    Stormy Lotus
  • These interesting wildflowers, seen here in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails in SW Florida, are commonly found in moist pinelands, especially among or near palmettos.
    Yellow Bachelor's-Buttons
  • This common weed is usually found in disturbed areas, such as this one on the side of US41 in Collier County, Florida.
    Sow Thistle
  • American lotus opening at first sunlight.
    Enchanting Lotus
  • The native flame (or yellow) azalea photographed near the Apalachicola River in Gadsden County, Florida. These shockingly beautiful flowering trees grow in dense rich forests and are often found on steep slopes and ravines.
    Flame Azalea
  • Close-up of one of Florida's most beautiful wildflowers.
    Indian Blanketflower
  • Deering's partridge pea growing in the Everglades National Park, where they will flower year-round.
    Florida Keys Sensitive Pea
  • A wild American lotus blooming on a Tallahassee, Fl lake.
    American Lotus
  • Yellow colicroot growing in the Big Cypress National Preserve along an old tram road. This was a very important medicinal plant used by that native Americans to treat digestive disorders.
    Yellow Colicroot
  • American lotus growing in a lake in North Florida. In mid-summer, these very large flowers can be found in the hundreds on Lake Jackson in  Tallahassee, Florida.
    American Lotus with Bee
  • Everglades daisy photographed in the dry season of the Big Cypress National Preserve. Look for them in large numbers in the spring!
    Everglades Daisy
  • This is a very common member of the St. John's-wort family, growing here in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
    Marsh St. John's-Wort
  • Carolina desertchicory growing in the Goethe State Forest in Levy County, Florida.
    Desert Chicory
  • The prickly pineland acacia growing in the Everglades National Park. This plant can be a "surprise" while trying to travel through the rough spots in the 'Glades! Ouch!
    Pineland Acacia
  • This very common cactus found all over the state of Florida produces these big showy yellow flowers in the spring, followed by edible fruits.
    Eastern Prickly Pear
  • The large, showy flowers of the eastern prickly pear cactus in full bloom in Sebring, Florida - near Lake June-in-Winter.
    Eastern Prickly Pear
  • This large beautiful canna was found unexpectedly growing in the Corkscrew Swamp. It is native to Florida and often found in the Everglades.
    Golden Canna
  • The threatened Bahama senna in full flower near Long Pine Key in the Florida Everglades, where it is still a common shrub, but has a very limited range.
    Bahama Senna
  • This member of the St. John's-wort family sometimes used to make a tea to treat depression or anxiety.
    Fourpetal St. John's-Wort
  • Pitted stripeseed wildflower photographed in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
    Pitted Stripeseed
  • Florida's State Wildflower! This very common coreopsis is found in nearly any wet or dry habitat in South Florida.
    Tickseed
  • The always popular black-eyed Susan growing in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails in Collier County, Florida. These can be seen all over Florida in many habitats.
    Black-eyed Susan
  • Cowpeas are a very commonly seen wildflower growing in disturbed areas and pinelands. These were photographed in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails in Collier County, Florida.
    Cowpeas
  • One can find these beauties everywhere in the springtime in the Big Cypress National Preserve!
    Black-eyed Susan
  • Blanketflowers growing wild on Merritt Island on Florida's East Coast.
    Indian Blanketflower
  • American lotus seedpod growing in a lake in Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida. These are often found in dried floral arrangements.
    American Lotus Seedpod
  • A single lotus flower on a hot summer morning.  Most interesting about these flowers are the leaves, which will not get wet, but instead repel waterdrops in such a way that they just form "beads" on top of the pad-like structure. Lots of fun to play with when the fish aren't biting!
    American Lotus
  • This tall and attractive milkwort was photographed in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Southeast Florida, near the Atlantic coast.
    Low Pinebarren Milkwort
  • Candyroot (or dwarf polygala) found growing on the side of a trail in the CREW Marsh Hiking Trails in Collier County, Fl.
    Candyroot
  • Common all over Florida, this large member of the polygala family can be found in fields, scrubs, roadsides, pine forests, and particularly in and around palmettos.
    Yellow Bachelor's Button
  • Sometimes the typically dark red/maroon flower of the confederate trillium is yellow in some specimens. This rare version of a very rare endangered plant was reason enough for me to get a shot of an otherwise imperfect specimen.
    Confederate Trillium (Trillium reliquum)
  • A perfect detail shot of a dimpled trout lily. easily recognized by their mottled leaves, they bloom in the wintertime in spectacular yellow carpets in old hardwood forests. This particular colony is not only extremely rare, it might be the only colony found in all of Florida in the wild, as this one was near the Alabama-Florida-Georgia tri-state line.
    Dimpled Trout Lily
  • This extremely rare lily found in North Florida near Chattahoochee is rarely found south of North Georgia, as their population has receded to the Appalachian Mountains regions to the north over the millennia. As climate slowly changes, so does soil composition, water availability, the overhead tree canopy species that provide the shade necessary for trout lilies, and general climate as a whole.
    Dimpled Trout Lily
  • A free-floating leafy bladderwort in flower as it floats in the swampy water of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Panhandle. This interesting carnivorous plant has tiny sensitive traps in its root-like strictures that capture tiny invertebrates as they seek shelter that it will ingest as a food source.
    Leafy Bladderwort
  • Often referred to as a weed, the very common yellow woodsorrel is found almost all over North America, with the exception of Labrador, Alberta, California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. Commonly found growing in flowerbeds, lawns, etc. - all parts of this native beauty is edible. I grew up chewing on this plant because I love the intensely citrusy tanginess of it.
    Common Yellow Woodsorrel
  • American lotus flower and pads on Lake Jackson in Tallahassee, Florida.
    American Lotus
  • Open prairie in Southeast Florida with yellow bachelor's button wildflowers.
    Florida Prairie
  • This particular subspecies of cottony goldenaster (Chrysopsis gossypina ssp. cruiseana) is a very hardy member of the aster and sunflower family with strong wood stems that blooms in the cooler months of fall and winter along the white sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. These were growing in profusion on Pensacola, Beach, Florida.
    Cottony Goldenaster
  • Considered an invasive species in North America, the Peruvian primrose-willow was introduced into the Sunshine State and many other places around the world for its beautiful yellow four-petalled flowers. These days it is a serious problem due to how fast this tall very bush grows and how easily it spreads, outcompeting coastal native plant species in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Texas Gulf Coast. This one was photographed in the Fakahatchee Strand in Collier County, Florida.
    Peruvian Primrose-Willow
  • Common in ponds and lakes all over Florida and eastern North America, this native spadderdock is often confused with the water lily, and is found as far north as Nova Scotia. The difference between spadderdock and true water lilies is that spadderdock has heart-shaped leaves and small, half-opened flowers and water lilies have round leaves and large showy flowers. This one was found growing in a lake in Fort Myers, Florida.
    Spadderdock2021-1.jpg
  • Common in ponds and lakes all over Florida and eastern North America, this native spadderdock is often confused with the water lily, and is found as far north as Nova Scotia. The difference between spadderdock and true water lilies is that spadderdock has heart-shaped leaves and small, half-opened flowers and water lilies have round leaves and large showy flowers. This one was found growing in a lake in Fort Myers, Florida.
    Spadderdock2021-2.jpg
  • The wild poinsettia goes by many common names such as fire-on-the-mountain, paintedleaf, and dwarf poinsettia and is a member of the spurge family native to North and South America, but has spread all over the world. Related to the commercially important poinsettia that we all have come to love at Christmastime, this one was found growing wild among some landscaping at a community park in Palm Beach County, Florida. Many people think the red part of the is the petals, but they are actually just colored leaves called bracts that surround the flowers. You can see the tiny yellow flowers just inside the red bracts.
    Wild Poinsettia