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Montana Outdoors
Cannot help with ID, but they sure are beautiful….
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Comment by Jet Eliot — May 31, 2018 @ 6:19 pm
I think they are too. Certainly photo-worthy.
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Comment by montucky — May 31, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
Despite lack of name, its lovely fine hair-like structure and water droplets make for a lovely series of images. Sooooo pretty 🙂
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Comment by Vicki — May 31, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
I like them! Amazing what you encounter when you just wander around.
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Comment by montucky — May 31, 2018 @ 6:35 pm
The leaf tips really are similar. I suppose you could wait for it to mature and then you’ll know. And of course you’ll have to let us know what you find out.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — May 31, 2018 @ 6:44 pm
I may not be able to visit it again, or even find it if I get into the area. It is a long ways off trail.
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Comment by montucky — May 31, 2018 @ 7:02 pm
It may remain a mystery…. Unless you know of another place with yellow paintbrushes and can see them in their early stages.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — May 31, 2018 @ 10:51 pm
I’ll try to keep track of it because I’d really like to know. I’ve also been getting some helpful feedback from others on the blog.
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Comment by montucky — June 1, 2018 @ 9:21 am
One of the great things about blogging – we can share so much information.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — June 1, 2018 @ 7:40 pm
Definitely!
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Comment by montucky — June 1, 2018 @ 8:48 pm
I had a look online, my guess is it’s an immature annual white paintbrush. http://science.halleyhosting.com/nature/basin/5petal/figwort/owl/hairy.htm
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Comment by Val — May 31, 2018 @ 7:50 pm
Thanks Val! That’s clearly a possibility because its range does extend into Idaho. Probably more likely that an immature Yellow Paintbrush. I have never seen one here though, or at least one in mature bloom. I’ll try to make a followup visit to where these are located although that won’t be easy. If it is a tenuis I’d love to see the flower.
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Comment by montucky — May 31, 2018 @ 8:35 pm
I’m not at home and don’t have access to my photo files until I get there, but I have a couple of bud photos of two paintbrush species that certainly resemble this — at least in memory. I’ve made a note to check and see if there is a similarity. Those red tips on the bracts, and the sharp points, certainly sugggest paintbrush.
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Comment by shoreacres — May 31, 2018 @ 8:33 pm
I will be interested in what you may be able to find. What seems like the fairly simple solution of revisiting the plants a little later to see it in bloom is complicated because I found these during a 5 hour random wander through several hundred acres of steep, open southeast facing hillside, literally packed with low-growing plants, and ranging in elevation from 3,000 to 3,600 feet. Yellow paintbrush was plentiful, but no other paintbrush species was in evidence, which by itself is unusual.
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Comment by montucky — May 31, 2018 @ 8:54 pm
You really did yours to have an answer to your question but –
Very delicate and outstanding details!
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Comment by Hanna — June 1, 2018 @ 12:58 pm
Perhaps I can find out what it is yet this season. I think they are very pretty even at this stage.
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Comment by montucky — June 1, 2018 @ 3:39 pm
I think you will. It is my impression that you find the name of all the flowers you see on your way.
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Comment by Hanna — June 1, 2018 @ 3:50 pm
I always do my best. I’ve found that quite a few people find the photos useful when they research a species for information and distribution and I want to be accurate. I have found over two hundred different wildflower species in the area through which I usually roam and it’s a small area of only about 2,000 square miles. The state in which I live has 147,000 square miles and so I have covered only a little part of it.
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Comment by montucky — June 1, 2018 @ 3:57 pm
That’s very impressive!
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Comment by Hanna — June 5, 2018 @ 12:10 pm
What an interesting mystery – but great photos should you ever identify it!
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Comment by Margy — June 1, 2018 @ 8:03 pm
It’s rather nice to have a few of those little mysteries hanging around, and a good reason to visit certain places at different times. I have several favorite trails quite close to home that I visit several times each summer and on each visit I find flowers in bloom that were not in bloom on my previous visit.
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Comment by montucky — June 1, 2018 @ 8:55 pm
How pretty, the water droplets on it look like diamonds in the rough…..if they only were!
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Comment by bayphotosbydonna — June 3, 2018 @ 4:57 am
I don’t know if those drops are from dew (or more likely from the process of guttation, because the surrounding foliage wasn’t wet), but they sure were pretty.
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Comment by montucky — June 3, 2018 @ 8:25 am
Amazing! Never seen anything like this flower.
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Comment by Sartenada — June 5, 2018 @ 12:30 am
This was the first like it that I’ve seen. Not sure just what it is.
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Comment by montucky — June 5, 2018 @ 8:13 am
What an interesting and unique little thing. I have no idea what it is but I like it’s fuzzy appearance.
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — June 5, 2018 @ 6:24 am
There are quite a few plants/flowers that have those kind of hairs, but this one exceeds most.
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Comment by montucky — June 5, 2018 @ 8:14 am
I wish I knew its identity .. it is quite lovely. Wonderful images too 🙂
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Comment by Julie@frogpondfarm — June 6, 2018 @ 1:27 am
I wish I knew its identity too!
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Comment by montucky — June 6, 2018 @ 7:01 am
Very compelling, whatever they are…and I like the water droplets, too…what a beautiful natural finish!
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Comment by seekraz — June 8, 2018 @ 8:04 pm
I think they might bloom, but I also think that they are pretty just the way they are.
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Comment by montucky — June 8, 2018 @ 8:35 pm
I agree.
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Comment by seekraz — June 16, 2018 @ 8:18 am