June 25, 2017
The procession continues
Once the weather warmed up the wildflowers began to bloom with new species starting every day. It is hard to keep up with all of them.
Narrow-leaf Mountain-trumpet ~ Collomia linearis
Hound’s Tongue ~ Cynoglossum officinale
American Vetch ~ Vicia americana
Viper’s-bugloss ~ Echium vulgare
American twinflower ~ Linnaea borealis
Queen’s Cup ~ Clintonia uniflora
White Sweet-vetch ~ Hedysarum sulphurescens
American speedwell ~ Veronica americana
Yellow Clover ~ Trifolium aureum
Bird’s-foot Trefoil ~ Lotus corniculatus
Sulphur Penstemon ~ Penstemon attenuatus
Oxeye Daisy ~ Leucanthemum vulgare
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I don’t think we have as many as you have there in Montana. The number of different wildflowers in your area is amazing!
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — June 25, 2017 @ 12:46 pm
Yes, I was very surprised when I started to count all of the different species, and I know there are still many here that I have not yet come across and some in the general area but not in the specific places I have visited.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 12:57 pm
That should keep you posting until next season.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — June 25, 2017 @ 4:40 pm
Nice! A Great assortment visually! Fun to see and also see the names listed.
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Comment by Reed Andariese — June 25, 2017 @ 12:49 pm
Some of the names have been very difficult to find initially, and the common names vary all over the place and in many cases the “experts” don’t even agree. It’s a challenge, but interesting and I hope my photos help researchers at least in some cases.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 1:01 pm
Makes one want to be outside more
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Comment by John Purdy — June 25, 2017 @ 2:31 pm
Me too! This time of year I get out as much as possible.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 6:06 pm
You have some really beautiful flowers there!
That looks like an orchid after the shot of the bee on the vetch, but I don’t know its name. It’s a beauty though.
I recognize 4 or 5 of them but most I’ve never seen. I’d love to find that orchid here.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — June 25, 2017 @ 3:49 pm
I’m constantly fascinated that each side of the country has so many flowers unique to itself. Possibly the amount of annual precipitation has something to do with that. I think you get almost three times as much as we do here.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 6:12 pm
Lovely procession to continue for eternity.
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Comment by nvsubbaraman — June 25, 2017 @ 4:44 pm
That would be my fondest wish!
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 6:12 pm
May God bless you.
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Comment by nvsubbaraman — June 28, 2017 @ 9:43 pm
Thank you!
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Comment by montucky — June 28, 2017 @ 9:49 pm
I agree, so hard to keep up with the flowers. Seeing some go to seed already has my heart in a bit of a panic, no not yet!
Your photos are lovely.
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Comment by Tammie — June 25, 2017 @ 5:02 pm
I’ve had that feeling more this year than ever before! Maybe because I looked forward to this summer more than usual and hate to see it going by so quickly.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 6:15 pm
What a stunning array. The Bird’s-foot Trefoil is a favourite. The American Twinflower almost looks like a Columbine. The Vetch reminds me of one of ours in Australia. Are any of these around your home? Or just higher up the mountains?
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Comment by Vicki — June 25, 2017 @ 5:38 pm
Many of these (vetch, Bugloss, daisy, clover and Hound’s tongue) are found at valley level. Some of the others grow at low elevations, but require a forest setting.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 6:19 pm
The yellow clover’s wonderful, but I especially liked seeing the bird’s foot trefoil. When I was trying to identify a yellow flower here (which turned out to be a different pea) I thought for a while it might have been the trefoil, and I learned all about it while finding out that it wasn’t. It’s a beautiful flower — one of my favorites in that family.
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Comment by shoreacres — June 25, 2017 @ 7:07 pm
That’s definitely one that I look forward to seeing every year. But there are so many about which I can say the same thing…
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 7:14 pm
Beautiful photographs and each flower is beautiful in it’s own unique way, but I’m partial to the second photo, the Hound’s Tongue. Something about the colors …
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Comment by teresaevangeline — June 25, 2017 @ 7:09 pm
My favorite wildflower book calls it a “weed introduced from Europe” and apparently there are problems associated with it. I have seen only a few plants in this area (less than a dozen) and those were far apart. I also really like the blossoms. The plant in the photo grows along with one more along a trail access road several miles from the nearest highway and over a dozen miles from the nearest town. Seems to be a long way from Europe and hard to imagine how it got way back here.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
What a cool backstory. I love the remoteness it seems to have chosen. Maybe it knew it would need a good hideout. 🙂
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Comment by teresaevangeline — June 25, 2017 @ 8:29 pm
Well, they say that Montana is the last best place to hide.
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Comment by montucky — June 25, 2017 @ 9:55 pm
Love the Hound’s Tongue and Viper’s-bugloss!
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Comment by Candace — June 26, 2017 @ 9:27 pm
Neither is a very popular plant, but I think the blossoms are very pretty.
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Comment by montucky — June 26, 2017 @ 9:38 pm
The flowers are truly amazing!!
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Comment by Hanna — June 27, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
They are! It’s hard to believe that there are so many different species in just this area alone.
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Comment by montucky — June 27, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
Beautiful! Is that a bumble bee enjoying the vetch?
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Comment by Julie@frogpondfarm — June 30, 2017 @ 1:55 pm
Yes. They seem to have a special fondness for that flower: I often see one feeding on it.
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Comment by montucky — June 30, 2017 @ 4:14 pm