Blue Flowers

Native West Coast Blue Flowers Alpine Gentian Baby Blue Eyes Bachelor's Button Big Leaf Lupine Blue Houndstongue Blue Mistflower Bluehead Gilia Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Mary California Harebell Colorado Blue Columbine Dayflower Bach's Downingia Elegant Downingia English Bluebells Forget-me-not Pale Flax Western Blue Flax Snowqueen Small Bluebells Tall Bluebells Upland Larkspur Western Polemonium Flower Power

From small rewards, such as being able to identify the flowers on a nature walk or planning a garden, to larger biological diversity issues such as discovering the flowers associated with the survival of endangered butterflies, flower identification has many merits.

Most formal lessons on flower identification focus a good deal attention on flower structure, emphasizing the shape and numbers of petals and leaves as key identification clues.

Flower color represents a less formal way to organize a flower identification guide.

Many people who are not trained in the language of botany can easily recognize a blue, red or yellow flower when they see one. Having a guide to native flowers in their area based on color provides a quick and easy way to begin the identification process.

This album of blue flowers builds on that logic and presents a group of mostly native blue flowers found in the Western United States.

© 2009. Patricia A. Michaels