Post your MICRO flowers

Moab Man · Apr 21, 2014

We have a thread going of traditional flowers. However, all around us are very small flowers that are overlooked because, well, they are so small we just don't see them and for the most part are considered weeds. These tiny micro flowers are some of my favorites. So please add to this thread your own "micro" flowers. And for the purpose of the thread, a micro flower will be something smaller than say the size of a man's pinky finger as I know some of the ladies have such small pinky finger nails that we may never see the flower.

To get started are a couple of my favorite Dragon flowers. I have no idea what they truly are, but they look like little dragon mouths to me. Maybe I need to stay away from those happy mushrooms LOL.

Moab Man · Apr 21, 2014

For scale, you can see the monstrous size blades of grass. The petals were very reflective.

Moab Man · Apr 21, 2014

Looked like little kernels popping open.

Moab Man · Apr 22, 2014

These flowers had the most interesting little sticks accompanying them.

Moab Man · Apr 22, 2014

This beautiful little flower was from some kind of ground covering weed.

Bob Blaylock · Apr 22, 2014

Oxalis

CSC_9253 by bob_blaylock, on Flickr

Bob Blaylock · Apr 22, 2014

Pyracantha

Moab Man · Apr 22, 2014

Love these micro flowers. Unfortunately, I am searching everywhere with no luck today. But the search goes on.

wev · Apr 23, 2014

Salvia nemerosa; flower is about 1/4"

wev · Apr 23, 2014

The even smaller mellifera 'Tera Seca'

Moab Man · Apr 23, 2014

@wev Those look so similar in structure to my pinkish flowers I called dragons.

wev · Apr 23, 2014

Same species -- salvia. I do can't tell which variety yours might be -- there are a whole lot of natives across the country (more than a dozen just in my CA county) and even more imports and cultivars.

hark · Apr 23, 2014

[MENTION=11881]Moab Man[/MENTION], did you use any extension tubes? Nice work especially for flowers so small!

Moab Man · Apr 23, 2014

@hark

Just the Tamron 90mm macro. That lens has really become my favorite.

wev · Apr 24, 2014

Moab Man said:
@hark Just the Tamron 90mm macro. That lens has really become my favorite.

Same here; a very good and useful lens.

hark · Apr 24, 2014

Moab Man said:
@hark

Just the Tamron 90mm macro. That lens has really become my favorite.

wev said:
Same here; a very good and useful lens.

Thanks [MENTION=11881]Moab Man[/MENTION] and @wev! That Tamron lens seems to be the most popular macro Tamron makes, and its photos are beautiful! If anyone does use an extension tube for shots posted to this thread, I hope they will include the info as it is always nice to read the EXIF data--unfortunately extension tubes aren't part of that data so knowing would be nice. Great shots!