This morning’s wildflowers

With the temperature headed for one hundred today, early morning was the only time for a short hike and yesterday’s post on Jomegat’s Weblog reminded me that the Pipsissewa are starting to bloom, an event I would hate to miss. The wildflowers don’t mind the heat, especially along a wooded canyon trail. There were other flowers in bloom as well.

Bluebell bellflower, Bluebell-of-Scotland, Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia

Pipsissewa, Chimaphila umbellata

Oneleaf foamflower, Sugar scoop, Western foamflower, Tiarella trifoliata

Common selfheal, Prunella vulgaris

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis

Liverleaf wintergreen, Pink pyrola, Pyrola asarifolia

Nodding onion, Allium cernuum

Spotted coralroot, Corallorhiza maculata

Honeysuckle, Miterwort, Twinflower and a rose with a beard…

Orange Honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliosa

Smallflower Miterwort, Mitella stauropetala

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis

Woods Rose, Rosa woodsii

In search of the whuzzit…

Another trip to the home of the “whuzzit” last night yielded no new clues to its identity, but as with every wander in the forest there were other photo ops.

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis

One-leaved Foamflower, Tiarella unifoliata

Self-heal; just starting to bloom

Spotted Coralroot, Corallorhiza maculata

Green Wintergreen, Green-flowered Wintergreen, pyrola chlorantha

Silver-leaf Phacelia, White-leaf Phacelia , Phacelia hastata

and this guy:

Twinflower and ?

Twinflower, Linnaea borealis

(I don’t even know where to begin…)

Wildflowers of summer (3)

And the procession continues!

Climbing Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade, Felonwort ~ Solanum dulcamara

Twinflower ~ Linnaea borealis

Spear Leaf or Lance-leaved Stonecrop ~ Sedum lanceolatum

Meadow Buttercup ~ Ranunculus acris

Canada Violet ~ Viola canadensis