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Wildflowers July 2009 Mount Shasta, California |
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Blue-eyed Grass |
Wildflowers July 2009 Mount Shasta, California |
Wild Rose |
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They say that April showers bring May flowers...this is definitely true for Mount Shasta! The months of May, June and July have delivered an endless supply of wildflowers: large and small, abundant and rare, in meadows and forests. Some last a day, others a week, a few last for months! Here is a sampling of the many blossoms that have made their appearance so far. If you know the name of an unidentified flower, please let me know! Thank you to wildflower expert Karen Phillips of Grants Pass, Oregon for her help with identification! |
Early bloomers:
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Western Showy Phlox |
Pussy Paws |
Pussy Paw close-up |
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Mahala Mat (Squaw Carpet) |
W ild Strawberry |
Common White Butterfly and Wild Strawberry |
There are so MANY white ones...
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Star Solomon's Seal |
Unknown |
Pacific Star Flower |
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European Corn-Salad(?) |
Newberry' s Cinquefoil(?) |
Miner's Lettuce |
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Chickweed (Star) |
Star of Bethlehem |
Cryptantha |
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Purdy's Iris |
Common Yarrow |
Washington Lily |
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Bindweed |
English Plantain |
White Sweet Clover |
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Barestem Buckwheat |
Cow Parsnip |
Including many different kinds of daisies....
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Lots of yellow:
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Common Monkeyflower |
Common Woolly Sunflower |
Potentilla (Cinquefoil) |
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Mustard |
Slender Hareleaf? |
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Mountain Violet |
Bird's Foot Trefoil |
Cinquefoil |
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Buttercup |
A field of buttercups! |
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Wild Mustard |
California Poppy |
California Poppies |
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Coreopsis |
Slender Hareleaf |
Hypericum (St. John's Wort) |
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European Hawkweed |
Spatterdock (Yellow Pond-lily)
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Spatterdock |
Dandelions are in abundance!
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Dandelion and Bee! |
Beautiful pinks:
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Mallow |
Pacific Bleeding Heart |
Desert Deervetch |
 Rock Rose |
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Lovely violets, purples and blues:
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Alfalfa |
Lobb's Fiddleleaf |
Blue Flax |
Blue Dicks (Common Brodiaea) |
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Johnny Jump-Up |
Polygala |
Vinca (Myrtle, Periwinkle) |
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Clarkia |
Hairy Vetch
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Self-heal (Heal All) |
Mallow |
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Unidentified Grass |
Beardtongue (Penstemon)
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Chicory |
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Bull Thistle |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Cascade Lily (purple flowered Washington Lily) |
Orange and red are richly represented:
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Orange Larkspur |
Indian Paintbrush |
Indian Warrior |
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Scarlet Gilia
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Orange Honeysuckle |
Red Sorrel |
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Red Columbine
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Shasta Lily |
Shasta Lilies |
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Large-Flowered Collomia |
Blanket Flower |
Some have stripes:
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Cheeseweed/Buttonweed |
White Brodiaea |
Mountain Dogbane
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Mountain Pretty Face
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Some are exotic:
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Yellow Salsify (Goat's Beard) |
Mountain Navarretia
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Diamond Fairyfan (Forest Clarkia) |
Cat's Ear |
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Teasel |
Meadow Knapweed |
They come in different shades:
Corn Flower (Bachelor's Button)
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Ground Ivy
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Clover
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Red Clover |
White Clover |
Clover with Ant! |
Lupine and Sweet Peas
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Lupine |
Lupine |
Sweet Peas |
Some are tall:
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False Solomon's Seal |
Varied-leaf Phacelia
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Corn Lily |
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Yellow Glandweed (Evening Primrose) |
Common Mullein and Yellow Glandweed |
Phacelia |
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Rush Lily |
Spirea |
These two Hawkweed plants are
over 6 feet high! |
Some are small:
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Narrow Leaved Vetch
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Johnny Jump-Up and Storksbill |
American Speedwell |
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Epilobium |
Vetch |
Some live together...
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Ground Ivy, Dandelion, Narrow Leaved Vetch, Field Chickweed |
Lupine, Indian Paintbrush
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Bird's Foot Trefoil, Red Clover, Common Yarrow
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Lupine and Forsythia (or Scotch Broom?) |
Others prefer their own company....
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Albino Asparagus? |
No, Phantom Orchid! |
If you look closely, you might see the sun...
Sneezeweed |
Fleabane |
And stars!
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Horkelia (or Ivesia) |
(Cinquefoil minus petals!) |
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Sandwort |
Giant Yellow Flower (Blazing Star) |
In early June the meadow was full of color:
It was especially beautiful with Mount Shasta in the background!
Hope you enjoyed our wildflowers! Happy Summer!
