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

Tritella

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

Tritelia and Geranium

Large-flowered Tritelia, Brodiaea douglasii, Triteleia grandiflora, May 9

Sticky Geranium, Geranium viscosissimum, May13

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