Monday, July 27

Wyoming Wildflowers

Ok, I can't go without sharing more of the wildflowers we saw in Yellowstone, and through the Big Horn Mts. I saw several more I didn't get a photo of...so many wildflowers, so little time...

I saw this at an info station turn-out in the Big Horn Mts., E of Yellowstone, on our way to the park on the 20th. I'd never seen a red penstemon before and wondered if this was an escaped garden flower or was it wild? Turns out there are over 250 wild penstemons in N America! This one might be firecracker or Eaton's penstemon.

I think this is a duncecap larkspur. It looks similar to lupine from the road and it took me awhile to realize, hey, wait a minute, that isn't lupine...
I stumbled upon this white bog-orchid at a shaded pull-out area. In the Black Hills, we have a Northern bog orchid, but it's pale green.
I have yet to ID this flower, so if anyone knows or knows something similar, please let me know. It looks similar to the buckwheats (below).

The bracted lousewort was a flower I was hoping to see, like the Indian paintbrush.

This is American bistort, found here and there in YNP.

Lewis monkeyflower! The Black Hills has a yellow-colored monkeyflower. This flower wasn't real common.

The silky phacelia was abundant in the park. From the waterleaf family.

I believe this is Northern buckwheat. It was fairly common throughout the park.

It looks like this is sulfur-flower buckwheat; definitely a buckwheat anyway. This was the only one I saw, in the Big Horn Mts.

I knew right off this was a wild onion, but in SD we only have white ones. This is the shortstyle onion.

5 comments:

  1. Your photos are amazing. Truly! What equipment do you shoot with?
    Being a former Chicagoan, I hated the winters with a passion. Tell me, how are the winter in SD? I think it may be a place to visit.

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  2. Some beautiful flowers there J'ellen
    Sheila

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  3. Jann, those are great photos. I love seeing the western wildflowers. I had read once how many different penstemon there were and many of them are very attractive to hummingbirds.
    Marnie

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  4. Deb, the winters here are the pits! Probably about the same as Chicago's. Our worst months are March and April, and lately May too. I consider any 'snow' month to be winter, and that means Oct. - May here. UGH!

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  5. Yellowstone this year looks better than a flower shop. Wow!

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