Bird planted mulberry trees, pretty weeds and wildflowers

This purple poppy mallow or low poppy mallow were growing wild near our rosebushes.  I was able to capture this image before our puppies happily tromped on them as they love to play near me when I'm outside.  See more comments below...

I pulled these roundleaf groundsel out of the ground and placed in front of some purple wildflowers to get this colorful background.

This is some type of weed that I haven't been yet able to identify.  The colors caught my attend while I was scouting for wildflowers in our nearby woods.

There were lots of these musk mallow wildflowers here on the ranch.  This one is my favorite capture!

So we discovered we have two mulberry trees that some birds planted in our yard.  This one is in our front yard and the birds don't know how much we appreciate them planting this one to give us more privacy in our yard!

No, this is not a dandelion, but a goats beard wildflower.  They look similar but this feathery seed head is much larger than a dandelion.

Macro images taken at the Smith Ranch

These are the first macro images taken with our Sony mirrorless camera.  The first image is a lilac bush bloom taken from above.  See comments below for the remaining images.

This looks like dried baby's breath.  We had a lot of this on our ranch.

Not sure what this dried wildflower is but this is the actual color of it and I think it looks antique!

Easter red cedars have these blue berries on them and they are real small but look big here because of the macro lens.  By the way, this is not a cedar tree but a juniper.

These blue wild-indigo are the first plants to bloom in the spring.  As I was taking these two photos, I didn't realize a bug was peeking out at me which you can see in the image after this one.

Just discovered this early spring plant as the Fringed Puccoon.  Native Americans used the roots, stems, and leaves to treat coughs, cold, delirium, and paralysis, and obtained a bluish-violet dye from the roots. "Puccoon" is a Native American word.

This Roundleaf Groundsel wildflower belongs to the Sunflower family. These wildflowers/flowers were all pretty much tiny flowers, but the macro lens makes them look large.  It was fun photographing these flowers and I hope you enjoyed them too!