July 16-19, 2024: Blue Mountains (Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Oregon)

July 16: Isqúulktpe Creek Overlook & Emigrant Springs

curly gumweed
pinkish parsnip-flower buckwheat
starry sulphur-flower buckwheat
Nuttall's cinquefoil
Oregon checker-mallow
needle-leaf navarretia, fading
velvet lupine
taper-leaf penstemon (?)
sticky geranium
scarlet paintbrush

July 16: Wallowa Lake

Hurricane Valley (Wallowa Mountains)
Mount Howard, Bonneville Mountain, & Wallowa Lake
forget-me-nots
lupine (which?)
Wallowa Mountains & Wallowa Lake
sharp-tooth angelica
Lewis' mock-orange
arrow-leaf groundsel
Canada gooseberries
sagewort/wormwood (which?)
western coneflower
twinflowers, fading
western blue clematis, gone to seed
pipsissewa
Bonneville Mountain & Wallowa Lake

July 16-17: Forest Road 39 & Salt Creek Summit

Redmont Peak
showy fleabane
fireweed
Venus penstemon
northern bedstraw
evening-primrose
sunset clouds
Eaton's lavender fleabane
sticky goldenweed
yellow monkeyflower
mountain bluebells (?)
pinedrops
heart-leaf arnica
white/big-pod mariposa lily
leafy-bract aster (?)
velvet lupine & scarlet paintbrush
Scouler's hawkweed
black twin-berries
unripe baneberries
arrow-leaf groundsel
Utah honeysuckle berries
Morton's Canadian milk-vetch
slender bog orchid
sickle-top lousewort
serrated ragwort (sawtooth groundsel)
Wilcox's penstemon
woolly groundsel
starry sulphur-flower buckwheat
Cusick's golden-weed
California corn lilies
monkshood
California corn lily
forget-me-not
mountain meadow-rue
streambank groundsel/butterweed
tall bluebells
western Jacob's-ladder
sticky geranium
lupine (which?)
Lewis' monkeyflower
musk monkeyflower
American vetch
brook saxifrage
Lick Creek
orange agoseris
large mountain (Coulter's) fleabane
Mylitta crescent butterfly
subalpine fleabane
Nuttall's cinquefoil
white bog orchids
cuckoo bumblebee on nettle-leaf horse-mint
yellow-fronted bumblebee & Oregon checker-mallow
Vancouver bumblebee & Oregon checker-mallow
lance-leaf figwort, going to seed
pale Venus penstemon
worm-leaf stonecrop
self-heal
leafy-bract aster (?)
Great Basin bumblebee & western coneflower
rough bedstraw
white spirea
rattlesnake brome seeds
spreading dogbane
greenish blue butterfly on showy fleabane
showy fleabane

July 17: Upper Imnaha River

Imnaha River
Riggins whorled penstemon
Imnaha River
catnip
western poison-ivy
gray sagewort, budding
police-car moth on bugloss
western clematis (virgin's-bower)
Imnaha River & Middle Point Divide
Hartshorn Butte

July 17: Zumwalt Prairie Preserve

oleander aphids on a milkweed leaf
unripe blue elderberries
red-osier dogwood berries
western sumac berries
annual sunflower
shaggy fleabane
blanketflowers
dense-flower willow-herb
Missouri goldenrod
needle-leaf navarretia
Seven Devils & Zumwalt Prairie
Harsin Butte
lupine (which?)
Scouler's catchfly
parsnip-flower buckwheat with a flat stem
nettle-leaf horse-mint
serrated ragwort (sawtooth groundsel)
Cusick's golden-weed
fleabane (which?)
white-stem frasera, gone to seed
hoary balsamroot, gone to seed
Méexsem Héepey Butte & Findley Butte
false sunflower, going to seed
hoary tansy-aster
view toward Hells Canyon
western white butterfly on Lewis' mock-orange
lupine (which?)
Cusick's paintbrush (?)
arrow-leaf balsamroot, gone to seed
monument plants, going to seed
western branded skipper butterfly on showy fleabane
mallow-leaf nine-bark, going to seed
white/big-pod mariposa lily
curly gumweed
Zumwalt Prairie
velvet lupine
sulphur cinquefoil
sagebrush mariposa lily
sticky geranium
Columbia puccoon, gone to seed
wavy-leaf thistle
strict buckwheat
prairie smoke, gone to seed
elkhorn clarkia, going to seed
Wallowa Mountains

July 19: Hells Canyon Rim

twin-flowers
swamp onion
Gairdner's yampah
straight-beak buttercup
western dock
false bugbane
panicled bulrush
pink wintergreen
sweet marsh ragwort (tall groundsel)
pearly everlasting
Cusick's camas, going to seed
Philadelphia fleabane
creeping Oregon-grape berries
Imnaha River
comb-leaf cinquefoil
white hawkweed
showy fleabane
white bog orchid
bumblebee & Venus penstemon
pollen wasp on Venus penstemon
horse-mint, bees, & a beetle
buckwheat
hybrid buckwheat?
snowbrush, going to seed
Crazyman Creek Canyon
scarlet gilia, fading
chimney bee in a checker-mallow flower
view toward Casey Mountain & Monument Peak
Eaton's lavender fleabane
basalt desert parsley
lemon sagewort (?)
Seven Devils
Morton's Canadian milk-vetch pods
globe penstemon, fading
taper-tip onion
narrow-leaf collomia
Idaho sticky cinquefoil
Sitka valerian, gone to seed
unripe black elderberries
scarlet paintbrush
furrow bee on western coneflower
Oregon checker-mallow
Cusick's camas, going to seed
white/big-pod mariposa lilies
Hells Canyon
Hells Canyon
Columbia lewisia, gone to seed
strict buckwheat
Yakima bird's-beak
white-veined pyrola
little pipsissewa
streambank globe-mallow (wild hollyhock)
roadside wildflowers & shrubs
Douglas' pincushion, going to seed
Hells Canyon
wildflowers & Hells Canyon
hairy clematis, gone to seed
hairy clematis, gone to seed
Yakima bird's-beak
wildflowers & Hells Canyon
Payette penstemon, going to seed
white-stem frasera, going to seed
sticky aster
common hound's-tongue, going to seed
jewel beetle
prickly currant berries
two-tone monkshood
black huckleberries
little-leaf monkeyflower
Hells Canyon

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