daveb
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Post by daveb on Sept 11, 2017 6:25:10 GMT -8
What do I have here? This I believe is the Alpine Yarrow but I can't figure out what the last one is.  What is this?  |
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Post by tallgrass on Sept 11, 2017 19:21:40 GMT -8
Beautiful images. First one is definitely some type of yarrow (date, location, etc needed to positively ID) Second one looks like an Anaphalis. This is the species I'm familiar with from home. |
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Post by daveb on Sept 12, 2017 6:55:16 GMT -8
Thanks tallgrass!
The Yarrow was north of Crested Butte, Co on the Schofield Pass and the Pearly Everlasting was in the Glacier National Park in Montana. I think you've hit the nail on the head with your identification.
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Post by tallgrass on Sept 19, 2017 8:49:35 GMT -8
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Post by davesenesac on Dec 8, 2017 9:03:19 GMT -8
Late winter 2017 was our best wildflower season since 2011 as I spent many days rambling about making large landscapes in our desert parks. But did find time to fit in some nice close-up images.
Bigelow's monkeyflower, mimulus bigelovii, on a Joshua Tree National Park, Cottonwood Bajada wash:
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More on this feature page:
www.davidsenesac.com/2017_Trip_Chronicles/winter_2017-2.html#mar8b
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At vast Anza Borrego State Park, at Yaqui Meadows, a ghost flower, mohavea confertiflora, with rock daisies, perityle emoryi.
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At Joshua Tree National Park gorgeous color of Mojave mound cactus, echinocereus mojavensis:
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At Joshua Tree National Park, Great Basin langloisia aka lilac sunbonnet, langloisia setosissima. Note the spiny points on the bristly leaves. The pretty white hued flowers below are desert star, monoptilon belloides.
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Post by Campfires&Concierges on Dec 11, 2017 19:09:44 GMT -8
This isn't a wildflower, but what is it? Found near slot canyons in Page, Arizona.  |
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Post by trinity on Dec 20, 2017 8:03:11 GMT -8
This isn't a wildflower, but what is it? Maybe burdock? |
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Post by desert dweller on Dec 20, 2017 13:33:21 GMT -8
Could be Datura which is found through out Arizona. Don't eat any part of the plant.
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Post by daveb on Feb 21, 2018 8:05:26 GMT -8
Could anyone help identify this one? I think I found this one in East Texas but I have my flower photos a bit out of order.  |
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Post by tallgrass on Mar 4, 2018 20:59:39 GMT -8
Certainly looks mint. Possibly genera Scutellaria or Prunella. Hard to tell without seeing the rest of the plant & phenology.
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Post by davesenesac on Aug 31, 2018 23:19:26 GMT -8
With summer waning, ought to post a couple from 2018 now.
...And then a bit further along the trail saw the above strong subject so again spent a few minutes getting a set of shots in. In the foreground of the above image is great red paintbrush, castellija miniata, and luckily given breeze blocking trees, managed to get 15 shots off during a couple minutes with reasonable still air. The species has considerable variation of color and this particular plant was a less common wonderful rose pink. There are a list of paintbrush species with leaves a key necessary for identification and these leaves were distinctively narrow leaves with smooth edges and an acute tip of this most common species. Complementing the frame were some mule ears, silver lupine, and bunch grass plus further back an aspen trunk, big sagebrush, and red hued paintbrush.
more here:
www.davidsenesac.com/2018_Trip_Chronicles/summer_2018-7.html
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...A bit further south on the trail one enters jungle like wildflower growth with vegetation at waist to chest height. Right at the edge of the trail I stopped when I saw the above wonderful subject. Of the hundreds of people passing by, it was obvious I was the only one to work it as I needed to bend a few for-get-me-not stems in front of it out of the way temporarily for a clear view. These seep loving species are wavy-leaved paintbrush, castilleja applegatei, and broadleaf lupine, lupinus polyphyllus, plus the one yampah. Note the wavy leaf edges of the paintbrush. As the landscape above east on Elephants Back was still shadowed, it causes a slight varying night time cool air flow down slopes that jitterred leaves and flowers slightly.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Apr 29, 2019 16:19:46 GMT -8
A nice little GSMNP Trillium.  |
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Post by hikinggods on May 30, 2019 18:41:12 GMT -8
On Cedar Mesa, UT. Taken with a cheap smartphone camera. Very lush for the desert setting.  |
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