These are blooming wildflowers spotted near to my house.
3 June 2008
claytonia – spring beauty
heuchera – alum root or coral bells
mertensia – blue bells
mahonia – oregon grape
arctostaphylos – kinnikinnick or dwarf mahogany
strawberry
2 gdlpf (god-damn little purple flowers)
5 June 08
Calypso – fairy slipper
Antennaria – pussy toes
Saxifrage -dotted saxifrage
Erythonium – glacier lily
dodecatheon – shooting star
21 June 08
clematis
polemonium – Jacob’s ladder
cerastium – chick weed
lovage
eriogonum – buckwheat
25 june 08
Arnica
hesperis
ribes – gooseberry
delphinium – larkspur
penstemon – beard tongue
1 gdlwf
26 June 08
Sambucus – elderberry
Amelenchier – service berry
malus – apple
Salix – willow
Prunus – cherry
1gdlwf – looks a lot like claytonia, but has narrow, opposite leaves, about 6″ tall, in dry, pine forest. Five white petals span about a half an inch and can be tinged pink.
castilleja – paintbrush, orange.
30 June 08
Cornus – dogwood
Potentilla
Spirea
geranium
Collomia
1 july 08
lupinus – lupine
leucanthemum – daisy
linum – flax
2 july 08
corallorhiza – coral root
eriogonum – buckwheat
1gdlwf – can anyone ID this? Its about a foot high, with linear, alternate, somewhat hairy leaves. The umbel (or possibly compound umbel) at the top bears regular, white flowers with four petals, each of which is cleft. Each flower is only about 1/4″ across, and since I can’t find my hand lens, I can’t really see the arrangement of sepals, pistals, ovaries and etc. It is located in an open, dry, south-facing meadow at about 6000′ in elevation, and is just now beginning to open up.
7 July 08
rosa – rose
senecio – groundsell
14 July 08
oxytropis – crazy weed
astragalis – milkvetch
lomatium – biscuit root
tragopogon – goat’s beard
agoseris – false dandelion (yellow + orange)
sedum – stone crop
ranunculus – buttercup
besseya – wyoming kittentails
apocynum – dogbane
15 July 08
Onion
Campanula – harebell
ajuga – carpet bugle
galium – northern bedstraw
silene – campion
yampah – ?
anaphalis – pearly everlasting
19 jul 08
Linnea – twin flower
hieracium – hawkweed
erigeron – fleabane
23 Jul 08
Angelica arguta – Lyall’s angelica
Conium – poison hemlock
heracleum – cow parsnip
gaillardia – blanket flower
plantanthera dilatata – western bog orchid
plantanthera something or piperia something – pink 6-8″ tall, located in a forested area near a stream at about 6,500′, with an elongated style on 1/4″, alternate flowers. The basal leaves are oblate and slightly fleshy. This just in! I think I finally ID it as pyrola – a pink wintergreen. See pictures here:
28 jul 08
centaurea – a dark purple, bristly flower on about a 6″ stem. Linnate alternate leaves. It looks just like a centaurea, but I can’t find an exact match in any of my books.
epilobium – fireweed
mimulus – monkey flower. This one is hot pink/red, not yellow.
1 gdlpf – only three inches high, located in the crevace of a boulder. Linnate leaves located densely along the flower stem. The pink flower could be on a collomia. It could be an incredibly unsuccessful and tiny phlox.
4 aug 08
arnica parryi – nodding arnica
verbascum – mullein
spirea
slidago – golden rod
15 Aug 08
Eriophyllum lanatum – wooly sunflower
