Nude Buckwheat

Nude Buckwheat
Eriogonum nudum

Buckwheat Family
Roadsides and open forests with well drained sandy soil

12 to 36 inches high

Hwy 140

Whitewhorl Lupine

Whitewhorl Lupine
Lupinus densiflorus


Pea Family
Pea shaped flowers are whorled around the stem forming a spike.
1 to 3 feet tall and found on grassy hillsides at lower elevations.

April to June

Highway 140

Fireweed

Fireweed
Epilobium angustifolium

Evening Primrose Family

McGurk Meadow
July 2009

2-6 feet tall
Fringe of the meadow
June to September

Pacific Dogwood

Curry Village
May 11, 2009

Pacific Dogwood
Cornus nuttallii

Dogwood Family
Early spring blooming

Red Clover

Red Clover
Trifolium pratense

Pea Family
Pea like flowers, reddish purple, 6 to 12 inches high
Meadows edge

April to July

July 2009
McGurk Meadow

Silver Bush Lupine #2

Silver Bush Lupine

Highway 140
April 2009

See my other entry

Blue Dicks or Wild Hyacinth

Blue Dicks
Dichelostemma capitatum

March to May
Lily Family

Highway 140
April 2009

Silver Bush Lupine

Silver Bush Lupine
Lupinus albifrons

Pea Family

0- 6500 feet.

Crane Flat, July 2oo8
Meadow

California Corn Lily

McGurk Meadow
July 2009

Corn Lily
-Veratrum calirornicum

Lily Family

June to July
6000-10,000 feet

Conditions must be just right for this plant to bloom.
3 to 6 feet tall

Shooting Star

Shooting Star
Dodecatheon jeffreyi

Primrose family

The petals are usually royal pink with bright yellow at the base with a maroon band circling the protruding stamen.
6 to 2- inch stems, long spatula shaped leaves, basal.

Wet areas from the fotthills to the subalpine.

May to July.


7/21/08 Lukens Lake

Common Monkey Flower

Common Monkey Flower
Mimulus guttatus

Figwort family

They are two-lipped five petaled blossom of tubular shape.

June to September.


7/24/08 Westfalls Meadow

Pinedrops

Pinedrops
Pterospora andromedea

Wintergreen family

Non-chlorophyll bearing member of the wintergreen and orchid families. The roots of the plant are intricately associated with a fungi. The fungi break down organic material in the forest soil into compounds which the plant then can absorb as food.

From 1 to 3 feet tall.
June to August.

Merced Grove, Crane Flat 7/21/08

Bush Cinquefoil

Bush cinquefoil
Potentilla fruticosa

Rose family

Moist, rocky areas-subalpine region.

June to July

7/23/08 Lukens Lake

Arrowleaf Groundsel

Arrowleaf Groundsel
Senecio triangularis

Sunflower Family
Grows alongside streambanks or seeps. Its leaves are distinctly arrow-shaped, lon and triangular. Tall stems are average of 36 inches.

June to September

7/23/08 Lukens Lake

Bigelow's Sneezeweed

7/23/08 Crane Flat
Helenium bigelovii

Sunflower Family

The name seems to come from the early settlers' use of powdered, dried flowers to induce sneezing to help clear head colds.

Moist meadow areas, 3000-8000 feet.
June to August.