In spite of a cold spring and below normal rainfall here in western Montana, the wildflowers are blooming, but about two weeks later than usual. This morning there was fresh snow on the mountainsides a thousand feet above the valley floor.
Western Gromwell, Lemonweed ~ Lithospermum ruderale
Western Serviceberry, Saskatoon ~ Amelanchier alnifolia
Field Pepperweed, Field Peppergrass or Pepperwort, Field Cress ~ Lepidium campestre
Fairy Slipper, Calypso orchid ~ Calypso bulbosa
Marsh Valerian, Northern Valerian ~ Valeriana dioica
Hooker Fairy-bells ~ Prosartes hookeri
Kinnikinnik ~ Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Field Chickweed ~ Cerastium arvense
Arrowleaf Balsamroot ~ Balsamorhiza sagittata
Black Hawthorn ~ Crataegus douglasii
Holboell’s rockcress ~ Boechera pendulocarpa
Menzies’ fiddleneck ~ Amsinckia menziesii
Meadow death-camas ~ Toxicoscordion venenosum
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