« 2023-05 Columbia Plateau

May 12, 2023: Tieton River (Yakima County, Washington)

Waterworks Canyon

lupines & Waterworks Canyon
tall buckwheat, budding
American vetch
lowly penstemon
purple fern-leaf desert parsley
upland larkspur
Carey's balsamroot
bearded hawksbeard, budding
western horse-mint
balsamroot & lupine
lupines
pungent desert parsley
Columbia desert parsley, going to seed
Yakima milk-vetch flowers & pods
sagebrush violet fruit
false agoseris
annual agoseris
balsamroot & sagebrush
Thompson's paintbrush
Carey's balsamroot & the Naches River Valley
desert yellow daisies, budding
Canby's desert parsley, going to seed
spurred lupine
rock lupines
wildflowers
rockslide larkspur
stiff sagebrush
basalt buttercup, going to seed
taper-tip onion, budding
Mount Rainier & Nelson Butte
dagger-pod
Hooker's balsamroot
Waterworks Canyon
showy phlox
Hood's phlox
rock-dwelling wildflowers
Tieton River & Highway 12
Columbia goldenweed with last year's dead flowers
Nevada tiger moth caterpillar on Yakima milk-vetch
rust fungus on pungent desert parsley
Naches River
penstemon
penstemon
thread-leaf phacelia
Modoc hawksbeard
bitterroot
heart-leaf buckwheat
pungent desert parsley, going to seed
balsamroot & sagebrush
woolly-pod milk-vetch

Royal Columns & Tieton Nature Trail

Royal Columns
lowly penstemon
antelope bitter-brush
Royal Columns
Columbia puccoon
fern-leaf desert parsley, going to seed
desert yellow daisies
sagebrush stick-seed
Royal Columns
young rattlesnake
columnar basalt
Tieton River & Oak Creek Canyon
parsnip-flower buckwheat, budding
round-leaf alumroot
Carey's balsamroot
balsamroot & showy phlox
triteleia & balsamroot
grass-widow, going to seed
basalt buttercup, going to seed
umber pussy-toes
columnar basalt
starry false-Solomon's-seal
gopher snake
Royal Columns & wildflowers
balsamroot & desert yellow daisies
Tieton River
footbridge
white showy phlox
cliffs
worm-leaf stonecrop leaves
brown fern-leaf desert parsley
bitter cherry flowers
purple rock-cress
Tieton River
columnar basalt & the Tieton River

Bear Canyon & Highway 12

western groundsel
harsh paintbrush
Yakima milk-vetch
balsamroot
lowly penstemon, budding
panicled death-camas
rock-cress
basalt buttercup
wax currant
serviceberry flowers
red-stem ceanothus, budding
metallic green bee on drop-seed rock-cress
Dome Peak & Rimrock Lake
Kloochman Rock
Mount Rainier

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