« 2023-08 Steens Mountain

August 10-11, 2023: Steens Mountain: South Road & Big Indian Headwall (Harney County, Oregon)

South Loop Road

little elephant's-head lousewort, budding
few-flowered shooting star
Brewer's cinquefoil
American winter-cress
Sierra saxifrage (?)
dotted blue butterfly
dwarf mountain ragwort
mountain death-camas
arnica
white marsh-marigolds
Oregon saxifrage
greenish blue butterfly on a sedge
western bistort
fleabane & arnica
many-stalked clover
dwarf lupine
sunset
sunset clouds

Big Indian Headwall

low-growing asters
orange agoseris
white bog orchids
Tiling's monkeyflower
divided snowfield
small purple rock-cress
snow buttercups
creeping sibbaldia
alpine ivesia
alpine speedwell
alpine shooting stars
Steens Mountain cinquefoil hybrid
alpine shooting stars
wildflowers, moss, & water
Mertens' rushes
alpine stream
wildflowers
ranger buttons, budding
glandular willow-herb
wildflowers
large-leaf avens, going to seed
California corn lilies
paintbrush & arnica
field chickweed
wildflowers
bi-color sulphur-flower buckwheat
top of Big Indian Canyon
sagebrush agoseris
wildflowers
bluebells
checkered white butterfly & white-stem goldenbush
rock-fringe willow-herb
Big Indian Canyon
orange sneezeweed (owl's-claws)
sagebrush sheep moth on shrubby cinquefoil
showy fleabane
red sulphur-flower buckwheat
wet meadow
pleated gentian
thick-leaf groundsel
little elephant's-head lousewort
groundsmoke (which?)
alpine pussy-toes (female flowers)
little elephant's-head lousewort
Hansen's long-stalk clover
many-stalked clover
Kellogg's knotweed
Big Indian Canyon
prickly sandwort
tundra aster
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
Lewis' & yellow monkeyflower
wildflowers along a stream
Nevada cinquefoil
monument plant flower
wildflowers
Brewer's navarretia
long-leaf arnica

South Loop Road

sharp-tooth angelica
mountain owl's-clover
wild onion, gone to seed
yampah (which?)
mountain tarweed
yellow wavy-leaf paintbrush
wildflowers & sagebrush
lupines
dagger-pod, gone to seed
Little Blitzen Gorge
south rim of Little Blitzen Gorge
intermountain bedstraw, going to seed
Truckee rabbit-brush
wax currant berry
plateau between Big Indian Canyon & Little Blitzen Gorge
parsnip-flower buckwheat
Owyhee ivesia
shrubby/single-head golden-bush
Cusick's golden-weed
big-head horkelia

East Rim Viewpoint

balloon-pod milk-vetch pods
east face of Steens Mountain & Alvord Desert
east face of Steens Mountain
dwarf yarrow
white-stem goldenbrush
north end of Steens Mountain
Steens Mountain thistle

Kiger Gorge

wildflowers
west rim of Kiger Gorge
Kiger Gorge panorama
Kiger Gorge
sheep

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