Flowers continue to amaze us. This time it is up by Big Pine heading east on 168 towards Nevada. This started out as a birding trip with seven of us turning up 48 species, and then on the way home we stopped several times to look at flowers and have Dr. Steve tell us what we were seeing and why. I tried to name the flowers in this post. You can thank Steve McLaughlin for those I got right; the others well I did the best I could.
In addition to the extremely showy scarlet locoweed and calochortus, we had the best display of Mojave aster I have ever seen. They covered acres. Good, birds, good friend, good flowers and good weather. Perfect.
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| Scarlet Locoweed, Astragalus coccineus |
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| Tackstem, Calycoseris parryi |
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| Showy Gilia, Gilia cana |
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| Pincushion, Chaenactis sp |
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| Indigo bush, Psorothamnus arborescens |
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| Blue phacelia, Phacelia distans |
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| Mojave, Aster, Xylorhiza tortifolia |
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| Yellow Bee Plant, Peritoma lutea |
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| Mojave Lupine, Lupinus ororatus |
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| Yellowthroats, Fremont's phacelia |
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| Desert Mariposa Lily, Calochortus kennedyi var. munzii |
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| Shockley goldenhead, Acamptopappus shockley |
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| Stansbury phlox, Phlox stansburyi |
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Inyo onion, Allium atrorubens var. inyoensis
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| Rosy-thorn, Chorizanthe rigida |
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| Desert Dandylions, Malacothrix glabrata |
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| Desert paintbrush, Castilleja angustifolia |
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| Cottonthorn, Tetradymina axillaris |
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| Beavertail cactus, Opuntia basilaris |
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| Mojave mound cactus, Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. mojavenis |
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| Winterfat, Krascheninnikovia lanata |
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| Apricot Mallow, Sphaeralcea ambigua |
Awesome flowers! I'm going to be out there in the South Sierra Wilderness in a week and we'll see what they're like there.
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