« 2018-07 Northern Utah

July 19, 2018: Deseret Peak (Stansbury Mountains, Utah)

This hike was underwhelming in the wildflower department, but there were tons of butterflies.

(On my way back to Salt Lake City, I stopped by the shore of Great Salt Lake, which was also underwhelming — except for the billions of brine flies.)
Deseret Peak
taper-tip onion
larkspur
cut-leaf groundsel (desert ragwort)
sulphur paintbrush
mule's ears, going to seed
Tolmie's owl's-clover
purple fritillary seed-pod
western sweet-cicely
Lewis' monkeyflower
yellow monkeyflower
Richardson's geraniums
monkshood
showy goldeneye
Engelmann's aster
California corn lily
monkshood
bumblebee on false sunflower
hoary aster
Deseret Peak
Wyoming (narrow-leaf) paintbrush
western tanager
rock goldenrod
curl-leaf mountain mahogany
sagebrush & buckwheat
showy fleabane
Lanszwert's pea-vine pods
parsnip-flower buckwheat
white-stem goldenbush
Lanszwert's pea-vine
Great Basin bumblebee on Eaton's thistle
seed capsules of feather-leaf kittentails
King's sandwort
mountain snowberry flowers
wavy-leaf paintbrush
view toward the Oquirrh Mountains
mountain pennyroyal (coyote mint)
tattered parnassian butterfly on pennyroyal
Hunt's bumblebee on coyote mint
fritillary butterfly on thistle
convergent lady-beetle & another ladybug on thistle
lemon sagewort
mountain pennyroyal (coyote mint)
Weidemeyer's admiral butterfly
checkered white butterfly on white-stem goldenbush
Douglas' catchfly
Deseret Peak panorama
view to the northeast
blue-leaf aster, budding
Deseret Peak
lance-leaf stonecrop
Stansbury Mountains
east side of Deseret Peak
Ross' alpine avens
Whipple's penstemon
monument plant
Rocky Mountain parnassian butterfly
parnassian butterfly on weak-stem stonecrop
lupines
rockslide fleabane
the trail
summit ridge
Stansbury Mountains & South Willow Canyon
Oquirrh Mountains
view to the south
Fremont's groundsel/ragwort
short-stem buckwheat
wavy-leaf paintbrush
monument plant
paintbrush & monument plant
alpine prickly currant
Stansbury Mountains
subalpine fir cones
Fendler's meadow-rue seed pods
Callippe fritillary butterfly
fritillary butterflies on coyote mint
fritillary butterfly on white-stem goldenbush
larkspur
showy fleabane
fritillary butterfly departing from horsemint
crags below Deseret Peak
witches' broom (spruce broom rust) on a spruce tree
aspen graffiti (arborglyphs)
South Willow Creek Narrows
Stansbury Island
Black Rock
curly-cup gumweed
Antelope Island
Stansbury Island & Franklin's gulls
brine flies

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