Skyrocket

Skyrocket aka Scarlet Gilia ~ Ipomopsis aggregata

This is one of those wildflowers that I eagerly anticipate seeing every year in late spring: I never want to miss it. It grows on tall, slender stems that sway in the slightest breeze and likes full sun.

Skyrocket

Scarlet Gilia ~ Ipomopsis aggregata

They call it “Skyrocket”

Scarlet Gilia, Skyrocket ~ Ipomopsis aggregata, Gilia aggregata ~ Phlox family

Skyrocket ~ Just in time for the 4th

Skyrocket ~ Ipomopsis aggregata

Asleep beneath the snow

When I left home this morning the temperature was a balmy 15º and ten degrees lower than that in Weeksville canyon. Half a mile up the road to the trail head, as I walked past an area that I know well for its wildflowers which are sleeping now beneath the warm blanket of snow it occurred to me to match a few scenes with the flower species that are found in each.

Scarlet Gilia, Skyrocket ~ Ipomopsis aggregate

Sulphur Penstemons ~ Penstemon attenuatus

Lance-leaved Stonecrop ~ Sedum Lanceolatum

Flowers from summers past

Scarlet Gilia, Skyrocket

Moth Mullein, unusual in white

No, it didn’t suddenly revert back to summer again. In the course of doing a project, I have been reviewing my photo library and decided that a few more photos in it are worth posting and will be doing a little of that for a time. I hope to be able to get out into the forests more in a few weeks and shoot more new stuff then. These were taken a few summers ago. The white Moth Mullein is the only white one I’ve seen.