Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Beargrass, Xerophyllum tenax on July 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
No other plant resembles Beargrass, Xerophyllum tenax, but to me its appeal is much more than its uniqueness, its size (up to five feet tall) or its beautiful blossoms, but in where it grows, mostly on open ridge tops in the higher elevations of the northwest. For more than sixty summers I’ve felt a thrill, [...]
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (maianthemum racemosum), (Symphyotrichum spathulatum), False Solomon's Seal, Feathery false Lily of the valley, Western Groundsel seed head, Western Mountain Aster on July 2, 2008 | 12 Comments »
That I photographed, anyway. (Unless I missed some in the 386 photos I took during the month.)
There seems to be a disagreement between one of my favorite wildflower sites from British Columbia which calls the next flower “False Solomon’s Seal” and the USDA Plants site which calls it “Feathery False Wild Lily of the Valley”. [...]
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on June 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
If I were the one to name this flower, that’s the name I’d choose. So far I’ve looked everywhere I can think of and can’t come up with in ID for it.
(Photographed along the lower end of the Munson Creek trail in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana, inside the TeePee - Spring Creek roadless [...]
Posted in Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (vicia americana), American vetch, Wild pea on June 27, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Vetch. Somehow it seems unjust for a very pretty flower to have such a name. I greatly prefer calling it “Wild Pea”. Oh, well… it doesn’t seem to mind.
American vetch, vicia americana
The blossoms
A stalk of blossoms
A hillside of WIld peas (with the Coeur d’Alene mountains as a backdrop).
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Wild Red Clover, Wild rose on June 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Wild rose bud
Wild rose blossom - mature
Red Clover
Wild rose blossom - early stage
(Photographed along the Spring Creek trail in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana.)
Posted in Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Wildflowers on June 26, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Here are some of the flowers growing along the upper part of trail 205 ( 3,500 ft to 5,000 ft).
Red clover
Miner’s lettuce, claytonia perfoliata
Tolmie star-tulip
Tolmie star-tulips
A hillside of Blue-eyed Marys
A ridgetop covered with Arrowleaf Balsamroot
Very colorful Tolmies
Yellow Indian Paintbrush
Lupine
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (lonicera ciliosa), (sedum), Orange Honeysuckle, Stonecrop on June 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
The Honeysuckle is now blooming in the woods and it was surprising today to see Stonecrop, usually a blossom of late summer. Between the two though, they really brighten things up!
Orange Honeysuckle, lonicera ciliosa
Stonecrop sedum
Posted in Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (Gilia aggregata), Scarlet Gilia on June 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’ve always loved the vivid, bright color of these summer wildflowers, one of the few true reds I see in this area.
Scarlet Gilia, gilia aggregata
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (Cypripedium montanum), Mountain Lady's slipper on June 22, 2008 | 18 Comments »
This member of the Orchid family is always a real treat to discover in the back country. It is near extinction in many areas and rare in others. Acting on a tip from a friend, I made a short trip into the Weeksville Creek area in the Cabinet Mountains today and found several dozen of [...]
Posted in Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (campanula rotundifolia), Bluebells of Scotland, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Harebells, Patrick's Knob roadless area on June 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here are some of the flowers which grow along the lower part of trail 205. (Yes, I do favor the Harebells: I see so few of them and those only in this general area of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains.)
Harebells, campanula rotundifolia
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Orange Honeysuckle, lonicera ciliosa
