Musrooms in a field just outside the entrance to Ft. Morgan in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Ft. Morgan is at the western end of Alabama State Road 180 on the eastern side of the mouth of Mobile Bay.

Mushrooms in a field just outside the entrance to Ft. Morgan in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Ft. Morgan is at the western end of Alabama State Road 180 on the eastern side of the mouth of Mobile Bay.

Sunflowers abound along the highways of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

A blue wild flower found along an Arizona desert highway.

Suguaro cactus in the Arizona desert terrain of the Tonto National Forest.

These Indian paintbrush wild flowers were growing on the New Mexico countryside.

These coneflowers were along a New Mexico roadside.

These scarlet globemallow wild flowers were on a New Mexico roadside.

This pink bougainvilla was growing on the top of Le Heup Hill in Pasco County, Florida

The bougainvilla is a thorny vine, bush or tree that is native to South America, from Brazil to Peru and south to southern Argentina.

This red bougainvilla was growing on the top of Le Heup Hill in Pasco County, Florida

The bougainvilla is a thorny vine, bush or tree that is native to South America, from Brazil to Peru and south to southern Argentina.

The American crinum lily (crinum americanum) can be found in wet rich soils from Florida to southeast coastal Texas.

It is also know as the seven sisters, swamp lily, southern swamp lily, string lily and crinum lily.

A water hyacinth bloom (eichhornia crassipes) in the waters of Tampa, Florida's Lettuce Lake Park.

The water hyacinth is native to the Amazon basin of Brazil. It is a floating, aquatic weed and is considered an invasive species in much of the world. It may be confused with frogs-bit.