« 2023-05 Columbia Plateau

May 10, 2023: Yakima Canyon: Mount Baldy & Umtanum Creek Canyon (Kittitas County, Washington)

Umtanum Ridge (Mount Baldy)

Yakima River Canyon
yellow fern-leaf desert parsley
balsamroot
spiral-pod milk-vetch
balsamroot & Yakima River Canyon
rust fungus on fern-leaf desert parsley
heart-leaf buckwheat, budding
desert yellow daisies
Modoc hawksbeard
parsnip-flower buckwheat, budding
three-tip sagebrush
rockslide larkspur, flowering & fruiting
Umtanum Ridge
rockslide larkspur
Richardson's penstemon leaves
round-leaf alumroot
Columbia goldenweed, hanging from a cliff
colorful crustose lichen
Hoover's desert parsley, going to seed
thread-leaf phacelia
sagebrush violet fruit
false agoseris
thyme-leaf buckwheat
taper-tip onion, budding
Nevada tiger moth caterpillar
panicled death-camas
intermountain bedstraw
Hooker's balsamroot
bitterroot
Baldy Mountain
dagger-pod
Gairdner's penstemon
showy phlox
Umtanum Ridge & Yakima River Canyon
wildflowers
narrow-leaf goldenweed
Thompson's paintbrush
rust fungus on pungent desert parsley
Umtanum Ridge & Yakima River Canyon
sagebrush violet, white form
view north toward the Stuart Range
wildflowers
balsamroot
wildflowers & Yakima Canyon
Carey's balsamroot & the Yakima River
basalt cactus
rock lupines
Hooker's balsamroot
few-flowered rock-cress
thyme-leaf buckwheat
balsamroot
Umtanum desert parsley, going to seed
Canby's desert parsley, going to seed
basalt cactus
Thompson's paintbrush
serviceberry flowers
bitterroot
milk-vetch
buckwheat & sagebrush
Umtanum Ridge
Blue Mountain buckwheat, budding
Cusick's sunflowers (?), budding

Umtanum Creek Canyon

Oregon-grape flowers
miner's lettuce
lupines
purple fern-leaf desert parsley
Thompson's paintbrush
small-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
sagebrush buttercup
silvery blue butterfly
bulblet prairie star
weeping wall
prairie stars
saxifrage
narrow-leaf montia
basalt cliffs
heart-leaf buckwheat, budding
Gairdner's penstemon
Umtanum Creek Canyon
rockslide larkspur
pink larkspur
large-flowered triteleia
long-leaf phlox with fringed petals
round-leaf alumroot
western horse-mint, budding
Hooker's balsamroot
long-flowered bluebells
narrow-leaf goldenweed
pussy-toes
sagebrush stick-seed
brittle-leaf saxifrage
ball-head waterleaf
desert yellow daisies
Columbia puccoon
western poison-ivy
starry false-Solomon's-seal
feral fruit tree
lupines
white large-flowered triteleia
chokecherry flowers
black hawthorn flowers
Baldy Mountain & the Yakima River
Canada goose family
clouds over the Kittitas Valley
clouds & virga over the Kittitas Valley

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