May 18, 2018
May 18, 2017
New arrivals…
Ground-ivy ~ Glechoma hederacea
Rocky Mountain groundsel ~ Packera streptanthifolia
Ponderosa Pine ~ Pinus ponderosa
Large-flowered Tritelia ~ Triteleia grandiflora
Fern-leaved Desert-parsley ~ Lomatium dissectum
Oregon Boxleaf ~ Paxistima myrsinites
Western Blue Clematis ~ Clematis occidentalis
White Campion ~ Silene latifolia
April 29, 2016
May 11, 2014
Early May wildflowers.
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
Large-flowered Tritelia ~ Triteleia grandiflora
May 16, 2012
Tritelia and Geranium
Large-flowered Tritelia, Brodiaea douglasii, Triteleia grandiflora, May 9
Sticky Geranium, Geranium viscosissimum, May13
May 30, 2010
May… the month of the blues
Large-flowered tritelia, Wild Hyacinth, Triteleia grandiflora, Brodiaea douglasii
Large-flowered tritelia, Wild Hyacinth, Triteleia grandiflora, Brodiaea douglasii
Blue Azure
Early blue violet, viola adunca
Small-Flowered Penstemon, Penstemon procerus
Small-Flowered Penstemon, Penstemon procerus
Silvery lupine, Lupinus argenteus
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