Wild flowers can be found in green spaces and parks all around the city and I grow some in my yard. When I don’t know the name of a flower I have a tough time finding it on the internet. I will find an image that looks like the flower I saw but it will have a name like "purple flower" or "IMG_5677" , becasue most people don’t take the time to label their photos, even if they did know what kind of a flower they photographed.
The Minnesota DNR has wild flowers on their web site but the photos are very small and the site is hard to navigate. It doesn’t seem to have many wild flowers on it either.
The organge flower in the first picture is a wild columbine. They like to grow in rocky soil and seem to
prefer some shade. They grow in my yard. They like it because it is on the river bluff, where the soil is rocky.
The purple Flower is usually called wild Geranium. I found them in a wooded area up in Cherokee park.
The blue flower is a creeping wild Phlox, I found it growing near the wild geraniums.
I found each growing in the city which is nice because this is a busy time of year for me and it isn’t often that I get to leave the city.
