Wildflowers

Photo Traveler's Guide to Texas Wildflowers
Photo Traveler's Guide to Outstanding Spring Wildflower Locations

Wildflower Links
Links to web sites with wildflower tours, locations and blooming information. Please notify Photo Traveler if you discover a bad link or would like to suggest one not included here.
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Celebrating Wildflowers - The calendar can provide ideas of when & where wildflowers should be blooming.
Alaska Interior
Appalachians - What is blooming in spring
Arizona
Arizona Deserts
Arizona - Great southern Arizona regional updates on bloom status.
Arizona - Pichacho Peak
Blueridge Wildflower Report
California - Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
California Widlflower Hotsheet for Photographers - Excellent source of current blooming information
California Wildlfowers
California - Death Valley
California - Death Valley
California - Joshua Tree
California - Southern Desert hot lines and current blooming information.
California -Where to see wildflowers on Northern Coast
California - Anza-Borrego
California Foot hills Wildflower Map
California - Imperial Valley
Colorado - Boulder area
Colorado - Evergreen area
Forest Service Bloom Report - Unfortunately a deserted site but might have some value
Illinois - Peoria County Prairie Sites
National Wildflower Institute
Nevada - Las Vegas area
North Carolina - Wildflower status in Asheville area
Ohio - Hocking Hills in southern Ohio
Oregon - Columbia and Great Basins
Oregon Wildflower Trails
Photographing Wildflowers
Smoky Mountains National Park
Southern Appalachians Bloomtime
Southwest Kansas Wildflowers
Texas Wildflower Locations in Plano
Texas Wildflowers in Dallas/Ft Worth Area - Excellent site with maps, blooming information and photos
Texas Wildflowers
Texas Wildfowers - Locations and Telephone Numbers
Washington - Columbia Basin
Western Wildflower Calendar

Books
Books on wildflower photography and identification. The books are available at discount from Amazon.com and the link will take you directly to the book in Amazon.com.

How to Photograph Flowers - An excellent new book by Heather Angel
The Field Guide to Photographing Flowers by Allen Rokach, Anne Millman
Photographing Wildflowers: Techniques for the Advanced Amateur and Professional by Craig and Nadine Blacklock
Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians: How to Photograph and Identify Them by Kevin Adams, Martha Casstevens

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
California Desert Wildflowers by Paul Munz
Guide to Colorado Wildflowers: Mountains by G K Guennel
Guide to Colorado Wildflowers: Plains and Foothills by G K Guennel
Peterson's Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
Peterson's Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers
Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide by Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller
Wildflowers of Houston and Southeast Texas by John and Gloria Tveten
Wildflowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana by Geyata Ajilvsgi
Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest by Dee Strickler
Peterson's Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers