RHH's photos with the keyword: fritillaria

One of the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring, this is Fritillaria pudica, Yellow Bells. We have seen no signs of spring yet and are waiting eagerly the first wildflowers.

This is one of the first wildflowers to bloom, Yellow Bells or Fritillaria pudica.

The wildflowers are starting to bloom here and we spent quite a bit of time photographing them yesterday. These Yellow Bells bloom with the Sagebrush Buttercups, always the first wildflowers of spring followed closely by the Grass Widows and Lomatiums. These Yellow Bells are one of our favorites and are usually found on sagebrush prairies, often growing in and under the sagebrush. The insets show them closer up.

These small wildflowers are usually single, but occasionally double-flowered. We photographed these on the prairie near Fishtrap Lake while hiking this past week. Theya re some of the first spring wildflowers.

I believe the dark red color of this flower is due to the fact that it is nearly finished blooming. The flowers when fresh are bright yellow, sometimes with red markings. They are some of the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring and are appropriately named Yellow Bells.

These small wildflowers are appropriately named and are one of the flowers we always look for in the spring. They gloom just after the Sagebrush Buttercups, always the first wildflowers.

This is the third wildflower we've found this spring, which is coming very slowly. They are Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica. We've only found half a dozen flowers so far, but know where to find more. The drops are the aftermath of a heavy rainstorm and I was very muddy and wet when finished photographing these.

Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica, grows all over eastern Washington, but it blooms early, is quite small, and so its blooms are sometimes missed.

Fritillaria pudica, Yellow Bells, ranges from the Mexican border through Alberta and British Columbia and from the Rockies west. It is small, early-blooming, tends to grow in low brush and is rather easily overlooked. Not all the flowers have the maroon markings.

Yellow Bells, Fritillaria pudica, are one of my favorite wildflowers. The grow in open, dry areas and flower in the spring. This was one of a very few we found still blooming in the area of Medical Lake, Washington, where we inadvertently also found a lot of ticks.

Couldn't quite figure out what to do with this. Not real happy with the composition, but I tried cropping it various ways and nothing seemed to work.

This is the picture posted below but heavily cropped.

We saw these (mostly unopened) in the area of Deschutes Falls, but also in the Bald Hills.

This is one of the few opened flowers that we saw, though in another week there will be hundreds of this lovely native wildflower in bloom.

A yellow form of the Chocolate Lily photographed in the Bald Hills.