Friday, May 20, 2011

Late Spring Wild Flowers Valencian Region

Late Spring in the Valencian region of Spain sees a delightful display of colorful wild flowers at the road-sides and in the fields and mountains. As the summer sun heats up and the dry season starts, those flowers disappear to be replaced with the tinder dry and brown dead vegetation.
Spring is especially beautiful  thanks to those wild flowers and their green vegetation, carpeting the barren land until they disappear for another year.

I am hoping to identify those wild flowers below. Any botanists reading here? or anyone at all that can provide names for me, thanks.

Gonospermum fruticosum, fam. Asteraceae  possibly

? Doronicum grandiflorum - Large-flowered Leopard's Bane, Fuente Dé
Name needed

Lily of some kind - name needed

Bindweed - botanical name unknown

Geranium maculatum - wild geranium

Similar to borage, but not the same so name needed

Same lily as above - growing wild in old ruins but may have been someone's garden at one point

Daucus carota possibly

Cistus albidus, White-Leaved Rockrose

This grows everywhere and reseeds itself all over. Would love to know it's name

Cachrys sicula