« 2020-08 Sierra Nevada

August 8, 2020: Thunder Mountain Trail (Squaw Valley, California)

Not the most exciting wildflower hike, but I was heading back north and didn't have too much time to explore.
woolly mule's-ears
gray rabbitbrush, budding
mountain tarweed
chick-pea milk-vetch
pale lupines
California rayless fleabane
rose thistle
Brewer's angelica
tansy-leaf evening-primrose
west coast goldenrod
bindweed
stinging nettle flowers, going to seed
bare-stem buckwheat
mountain blue penstemon (?), going to seed
small-head cudweed
Roezl's penstemon
subalpine spirea
Roezl's penstemon
hoary aster
Sierra currant berries
bastard-sage buckwheat
rough-leaf asters
thick-stem aster
slender cinquefoil
chaparral nightshade
chaparral nightshade berries
willow-herb
northern gentian
willow-herb
sword-leaf rush
western vervain
Sierra bog orchid seed capsules
yellow monkeyflower
Spanish lotus
northern gentian
little elephant's-head lousewort, going to seed
gray rabbitbrush
Squaw Valley
black-eyed susan (?)
waxy checker-mallow
Sierra larkspur
Donner Lake lupines
Tram Face & Shirley Canyon
dock, yarrow, & lupine
pink (and white) yarrow

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