« 2025-06 Olympic Peninsula

June 2, 2025: Welch Peaks (Buckhorn Wilderness, Washington)
Cascade Oregon-grape
coral-root orchid shoots
pale fairy-slipper orchid
flaky freckle pelt lichen
raceme pussy-toes, budding
rusty-hair saxifrage
evergreen violets
Utah honeysuckle flowers
nodding onion leaves
Lyall's anemone
small-flowered penstemon, budding
checker lily
Olympic onion, budding
early blue violets
glacier lilies
snowbank orange-peel fungus
smooth douglasia (dwarf-primrose)
rockslide larkspur leaves
crags south of Mount Townsend
beginning of the Welch Peaks ridge
wallflower, budding
Flett's/Olympic fleabane
ridge north of Hawk Peak
silky phacelia, budding
cut-leaf anemones
wildflowers
alpine smelowskia
yellowish cut-leaf anemone
rocky ridge
Olympic cut-leaf kitten-tails & smooth douglasia
patches of douglasia
spreading phlox
spreading-pod rock-cress
Olympic violets
Davidson's penstemon leaves
prairie smoke
cut-leaf fleabane, budding
cloudy rocky ridge
lance-fruit draba
tufted saxifrage, budding
irregular polypody fern
purple saxifrage
snow lichen
purple saxifrage
smooth douglasia & lichen
spotted saxifrage, budding
ridge southwest of Welch Peaks
kinnickinnick (bearberry)
cliffs & wildflowers
smooth douglasia (dwarf-primrose)
cut-leaf anemones
Olympic cut-leaf kitten-tails
twisted moss
northern cinquefoil
subalpine fir pollen cones
Silver Creek Valley
moss campion, budding
turnaround point
white-worm lichen
Olympic saxifrage, budding
purple saxifrage
sickle-top lousewort shoots
summit of Welch Peaks
rock-tripe lichen
juniper berries
Olympic violet
Lemmon's rock-cress
dwarf lupine, budding
western sweet-vetch, budding
small-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
Mount Townsend
view toward Baldy & Tyler Peak [bracket]
ridge southwest of Welch Peaks
purple saxifrage
alpine smelowskia
north side of Welch Peaks
Yellowstone draba
smooth douglasia & spreading phlox
alp lilies
west slope of Mt. Townsend
Olympic bellflower/harebell leaves
Mount Constance peeking through clouds
yellow locoweed leaves
Cascade desert parsley
boreal sagewort leaves
mountain death-camas leaves
rosy pussy-toes
Puget Sound & Seattle
last year's white rhododendron fruits
spreading stonecrop leaves
wild strawberry flowers
harsh paintbrush & spreading phlox
Scouler's valerian
western meadow-rue (female flowers)
prickly currant, budding

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