Identifying trees by FLOWERS

Tree Flower Identification

Identify flowers that bloom on trees in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region.

Crabapple with beautiful pink flowers.
Aspen flowers are called catkins and are small, fluffy and silver colored.
Western catalpa flowers are huge, beautiful flowers.
Chokecherry with small white fowers.
Goldenraintrees have many yellow flowers.
These common hackberry flowers are tiny.
Hawthorn trees have groups of small white flowers.
common lilac tree, flowers
Boxelders have flowers that are called drooping racemes.
Maple, Rocky Mountain ~ Flowers
Silver Maple Flowers
Mulberry Female Flowers
Mulberry tree's male flowers grow in small clusters.
Bur oak trees have light green catkins.
Bartlett Pear flowers are small with 5 white petals.
Callery Pear flowers are small with 5 white petals. They really don't smell very good to me:p
Eastern redbud trees have pretty little pinkish-purple flowers that bloom in the early spring. Their flowers explode right out of the dark bark, making it quite the sight to see.
Tree of Heavens have yellow flowers that (in my opinion) don't smell very good. Insead of seeing bees on these flowers I often see flies gathering on them.
Walnut, Black ~ Catkins

 

 

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