American Robin

Robin taking advantage of the freshly tilled ground, hunting up worms I'm sure.  I love how it's plummage blends in with the ground.

Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey looks to be a hen, I really had to work to get this shot as she was a good 300 yards away, so if it's a male well my apologies!

Bug Eyed!

Praying Mantis at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge.

Wild Iris

Iris' growing in a nearby marsh.

Yellow Majesty!!!

Taken at the Marietta Sand Prairie Reserve in Marshall County, Iowa

Wild Ginger Blossom

I have yet to see a blossom that doesn't have sand on it! In a fairy tale on could conclude that wild ginger creates sand!

Bluebells

Violets

Native Violets

Violet

Mustang Grapes

Wild Mustang Grapes

Wild Flowers

Purple Cone fFower

Daisy Flea Bane

Yellow Coneflower amongst other names.

Photographed a bunch of native prairie plants while out picking berries this evening, some are greatly inspiring to say the least!

Jack in the Pulpit

One more couldn't resist!

Jack in the Pulpit

Here you can barely see a blossom on the other side of the leaves, this plant is on the immature side still.

A rather healthy grouping of Jack in the Pulpit, the leaves have grown up to dwarf the blossoms, in some places you can see the blossoms peaking through the leaves.

Here are the leaves, it took Brenda and I three tries to find this patch, in the span of a week it's leaves had grown up over the blossoms hiding them and quite well.

Columbine

Native Columbine

Wild Phlox or Sweet William

Wild Phlox, Sweet William, and there are a few other names.

Jacob's Ladder

I was quite suprised to find this beauty in the woods here!

Buttercup

Wild Ginger Blossoms

I felt pretty lucky to find the wild ginger in blossom tonight, dh spotted the plant not even five minutes after I told him I was hoping to get a photo of the blossoms.

Rusticus crapus

Rusticus crapus an all too familiar introduced alien species into our natural woods!

Mayapple

This shot isn't very good but if you look close enough you can see the blossom head beginning to develope under the leaves.

Finally the Mayapple here is opening up and even beginning to put on blossoms! It has been cooler than normal here this year and the Mayapple, and everything else, is about two weeks behind.