Blue flower in a swampy area of northeastern Manatee County, Florida near Duette.

An unidentified flower in the forest of Parque National Iguazu in Argentina afer a rain storm.

Yellow mushrooms growing at the base of a tree in the Smoky Mountains National Park.

A yellow hibiscus opens itself hoping to be polinated. With beauty like this, its sure to be successful.

There was a whole field of orange cosmos flowers in Keysville, Florida planted to help the bees in the area.

A trio of reddish orange lilies make a beautiful arrangement to grace any table or wall.

This white flower of the arrowroot family was found along the shores of Lakeland, Florida's Lake Morton in April of 2016.

The Indian blanket or firewheel is a member of the sunflower family. A native plant, it occurs from the middle United States south to Northern Mexico. its scientific name is gaillardia pulchella. In some places it blooms year round and it is the state wildflower of Oklahoma. These were found on a rural Pasco County road east of Dade City, Florida in April of 2016.

Phlox help define the curve in the road at the junction of Trilby Road and Harris Hill Road east of Trilby, Florida in Pasco County. Found mostly in North America, the 67 species of phlox occur in diverse habitas from alpine tundra to open woodland and prairie.Some flower in spring and some flower in summer and fall in pale blue, violet, pink, bright red or white and many are fragrant. Some grow upright and some grow short and mat-like.

The huge flowers of the lilium casa blanca are a brilliant white, formed in a way that shows delicacy and texture. its easy to get lost in the heady perfume of this oriental beauty. The casa blanca is regarded by many experts as the finest of the oriental lilies.

This variableleaf sunflower, helianthus heterophyllus, or wetland sunflower, was blooming in mid November of 2106 next to a seasonally wet area of a prairie in the back woods of Florida's Myakka River State Park. This sunflower can be found throughout the southeastern United States in wet, sandy soil at the lower elevations and can grow as tall as four feet high.

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus rhododendron that bloom in spring. They come in many colors from white and red to orange, pink and lilac.

Azaleas are native to Asia, Europe and North America. Many North American cities have azalea festivals.

The plant and the honey made from the nectar and pollen of the flowers is toxic. Because of this it is thought that honey bees avoid the blooms, while bumble bees are their main pollinators.