« 2023-08 Steens Mountain

August 10, 2023: Steens Mountain: Wildhorse Lake (Harney County, Oregon)
Little Blitzen Gorge
Big Indian Canyon
head of Big Indian Canyon
Steens Mountain buckwheat
purple cushion buckwheat
buckwheat
Wildhorse Lake & Wildhorse Canyon
Steens Mountain paintbrush
Nuttall's sandwort
balloon-pod milk-vetch pods
WIldhorse Canyon
basin east of Wildhorse Lake
Wildhorse Lake
Big Alvord Creek
Steens Mountain thistle
blue flax
dwarf sagebrush
east face of Steens Mountain
round-leaf alumroot
long-leaf arnica
tall ragwort
Douglas' catchfly
thick-leaf groundsel
Kruckeberg's holly fern
timberline beard-tongue (Davidson's late penstemon)
bi-color sulphur-flower buckwheat
woolly groundsel
prairie smoke, going to seed
rock-fringe willow-herb
Nevada cinquefoil
Brewer's cliff-brake fern
coyote mint
ball-head ipomopsis
white-stem goldenbrush
Alvord Desert
east face of Steens Mountain
basin east of Wildhorse Lake
showy Jacob's-ladder
snow buttercups
western giant puffball mushroom
sulphur-flower buckwheat
red and yellow ornate checkered beetles, mating
penstemon
blue-leaf cinquefoil
alpine spring-beauty
dwarf mountain ragwort, budding & flowering
short-leaf cinquefoil
alpine ivesia
summit, snowfields, & springs
prickly sandwort
creeping sibbaldia
Steens Mountain draba (Cusick's whitlow-grass)
white marsh-marigold
alpine bog-laurel
little elephant's-head lousewort
Gray's lovage
arnica
wildflowers
wildflowers & the summit of Steens Mountain
wildflowers
primrose monkeyflower
wildflowers in the bowl below the summit
star gentian (felwort)
mountain death-camas
wildflowers
red, yellow, and orange paintbrush
yellow wavy-leaf paintbrush
lupines & arnica
alpine shooting stars
Hartweg's buttercup
snow buttercups
wildflowers & Wildhorse Lake
wildflowers in the bowl below the summit
Wildhorse Canyon
Cusick's golden-weed
stemless goldenweed, gone to seed
dry-slope wildflowers
white bog orchids & subalpine fleabane
ranger buttons, budding
western bistort
wildflowers
leafy-bract aster
field crescent butterfly
grass-of-Parnassus
showy fleabane
wildflowers
wildflowers & a stream
sharp-tooth angelica
mountain death-camas
northern goldenrod
alpine bistort
pleated gentian
star gentian (felwort)
Scouler's St.-John's-wort
sticky geranium, flowering & fruiting
Scouler's hawkweed
monument plant
monkshood
few-flowered shooting stars
Wildhorse Canyon
taper-tip hawksbeard, gone to seed
pond beyond Wildhorse Lake
Brewer's cinquefoil
orange sneezeweed (owl's-claws)
long-stalk clover
subalpine fleabane
phenocrysts in volcanic rock
sharp-leaf valerian, gone to seed
wildflowers
nettle-leaf horse-mint
wildflowers & Wildhorse Lake
alpine meadow groundsel
California corn lilies
wildflowers
pussy-paws
wildflowers
shrubby/single-head golden-bush
wavy-leaf paintbrush
rock-fringe willow-herb
long-leaf arnica
Douglas' knotweed
Nevada cinquefoil
wildflowers
wildflowers
pale Lewis' monkeyflower
arrow-leaf groundsel
buckwheat
slim larkspur
view toward the Pueblo Mountains
Owyhee cinquefoil
parsnip-flower buckwheat (?)
dry-slope wildflowers
bumblebee on Steens Mountain thistle
dwarf purple monkeyflower
lance-leaf stonecrop

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