Over the last week or so:

And when I think they are about over…

Elegant Rein Orchid ~ Piperia elegans

Ocean-spray ~ Holodiscus discolor

Brook Cinquefoil ~ Potentilla rivalis

Spreading Dogbane, Apocynum androsaemifolium

Western White Clematis ~ Clematis ligusticifolia

Bering Chickweed, Alpine Chickweed ~ Cerastium beeringianum

Western Pearly Everlasting ~ Anaphalis margaritacea

More from along the Munson Creek trail

Near the start of the trail, where it first crosses the stream, the vegetation is heavy at the crossing. The flowering shrub to the right of the trail is called “Ocean Spray”.

Ocean-spray, Creambush ~ Holodiscus discolor

Sometimes a tree will fall across the trail. This one is a couple miles up from the trail head. For perspective, I leaned my hiking staff on the tree: the staff is 62 inches long.

Brown-eyed Susan ~ Gaillardia aristata

White Spirea, Shinyleaf Spirea ~ Spiraea lucida

Many flowers have already completed their summer and have already gone to seed. This one is from a Yellow Salsify.

I think this one is from a species of Butterweed.

Common St. Johnswort, Klamath weed ~ Hypericum perforatum

Thimbleberry ~ Rubus parviflorus

Scarlet Gillia, Sky Rocket ~ Ipomopsis aggregata

Liverleaf Wintergreen, Pink Pyrola ~ Pyrola asarifolia

Wood’s Rose ~ Rosa woodsii

Growing in the spotlight

Ocean Spray ~ Holodiscus discolor

Even in a deep forest there are small places where sunlight peeks through and this fairly large plant found its own spotlight in which to flourish.

Wildflowers of summer (10)

Northern Bedstraw ~ Galium boreale – Along Little Thompson River

Brown-eyed Susan ~ Gaillardia aristata – Along Little Thompson River

Red Clover ~ Trifolium pratense – Along Little Thompson River

Fireweed ~ Epilobium angustifolium

Ocean Spray, Creambush ~ Holodiscus discolor

Suksdorf’s Indian paintbrush ~ Castilleja suksdorfii – Near Vermilion Pass