I love this time of year, when the ground starts waking UP and the spring flowers push their way up through the soil to color the Keweenaw beautiful. In some cases those flowers are pushing up while the snow is melting around them and in other cases they grow right through leaves that are still covering the ground. It is definitely a “sight for sore eyes” after a long winter season. Thank you to Liz Siivola for taking the time to "smell the flowers" and more importantly for sharing them with all of us to brighten UP our Spring!

We take a look at some of the many wildflowers that grow here in the Keweenaw and the U.P., with Douglas Feltman. Plenty of color we get to enjoy right now and in the months to come.

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Beautiful flowers!

Absolutely beautiful!!

All those beautiful flowers and color! If anyone knows
the names of these flowers, please let all of us know!
I would love to have them in my garden! What a delight
to see them this morning!

Jean Simmet (Calumet/ahmeek) I guess i forgot to put the names in my notes, but I did have them on the title of the photos. The top two photos are Glory-of-the-Snow. The bottom two photos are crocuses. Hope that helps!

The vid looks like daisies, asters (?), yarrow,
lupines (they come in many colors), Indian
paintbrush, buttercups, (I don't know), (lots of
these are considered "weeds"), thistles (considered
an invasive species), fire flower, purple
loosestrife (also invasive), it looks like he hit a
lot of wild places, and filmed there. It's
stunning!

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer (1803 - 82)

From the YouTube Comments:

00:01 Ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare with Butterfly
00:06 Centaurea Montana, Perennial Cornflower
00:11 Achillea millefolium 'Red Velvet Yarrow (not a wildflower)
00:16-46 Lupinus perennis, Wild Lupine
00:51 Pilosella aurantiaca, Orange Hawkweed
00:57 Pilosella aurantiaca, Orange Hawkweed
01:03 Pilosella aurantiaca, Orange Hawkweed
01:08 Pilosella aurantiaca, Orange Hawkweed
01:13 Ranunculus acris, Meadow Buttercup
01:19 Ranunculus acris, Meadow Buttercup
01:24 Coreopsis lanceolatata, Lance-leaved Tickseed
01:30 Coreopsis lanceolatata, Lance-leaved Tickseed
01:35 Coreopsis lanceolatata, Lance-leaved Tickseed
01:41 Coreopsis lanceolatata, Lance-leaved Tickseed
01:46 Hypericum, St. John’s Wort
01:52 Lotus corniculatus, Bird's-foot Trefoil
01:57 Leucanthemum vulgare, Ox-Eye Daisy
02:03 Leucanthemum vulgare, Ox-Eye Daisy on Sand Point
02:08 Field of Leucanthemum vulgare, Ox-Eye Daisy
02:14 Ox-Eye Daisy with Hawkweed
02:19 Field of Ox-Eye Daisy
02:24 Field of Ox-Eye Daisy in the wind
02:36 Cirsium arvense, Canada Thistle
02:41 Malva moschata, Musk Mallow
02:47 Clintonia borealis, Yellow Bluebead-Lily
02:52 Red Leaf, Young Maple
02:58 Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower
03:04 Anthoxanthum odoratum, Sweet Vernalgrass
03:09 Chamaenerion angustifolium, Fireweed with Goldenrod
03:20 Lythrum salicaria, Purple Loosestrife
03:26 Eupatorium maculatum, Spotted Joe Pye Weed
03:31 Lythrum salicaria, Purple Loosestrife
03:36 Lythrum salicaria, Purple Loosestrife

Hi
Those are pretty flowers in the photos. I haven't
seen crocuses spread out like that.

I'd have prefered the video to name the wildflowers
as they appeared, or at least have a caption. It did
have nice close-ups of the flowers.

I didn't think to look...I could have copied and
pasted the list as well...but I didn't do too bad
on figuring out what most were~

Donna,
I wasn't sure you saw the time stamped list.
You did better than I could.

My favorites are the Lupines.
I've never seen yellow ones.
Who's guarding who?

This set is so
breathtaking, it
could croak us all.

Iris Lilac'd the need to respond, Alex.

I love lupines and there are a ton of colors..they
also make nice beds for bugs! When we were little
kids, we picked a big bouquet for Gram...she
brought them in and put them in a big vase...later
that night...the house was filled with moths! Gram
knew...but she did anything for us kids!