Dwarf Buckwheat
Dwarf Purple Monkeyflower
Bitterbrush
Cinquefoil
Threadleaf Fleabane with Cinquefoil
Gray's Desert Parsley
Common Larkspur
Lupine
A Mystery Flower! Do you know what it is?Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wildflowers at Craters of the Moon National Monument
We are in Idaho and visited an amazing place a few days ago: Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho, a park featuring volcanic rock formations, lava, and cinders. It was an awe-inspiring landscape. But I was also amazed by the wildflowers flourishing in the cinders and the lava. If you are a pioneer girl, please help me identify these plants of the sagebrush steppe!
Dwarf Buckwheat
Dwarf Purple Monkeyflower
Bitterbrush
Cinquefoil
Threadleaf Fleabane with Cinquefoil
Gray's Desert Parsley
Common Larkspur
Lupine
A Mystery Flower! Do you know what it is?
Dwarf BuckwheatDwarf Purple Monkeyflower BitterbrushCinquefoilThreadleaf Fleabane with CinquefoilGray's Desert ParsleyCommon LarkspurLupineA Mystery Flower! Do you know what it is?
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4 comments:
I think you are right about lupin
the last one looks like Fireweed at the end of flowering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_angustifolium
It is possible that both of those are a bit harder to recognise because they are a bit more scraggley...possibly the growing conditions?
I didn't realise the names of some of the other flowers I recognised. The fleabane we have abundantly and call them daisies.
Sandy in the UK
I love your flower captures! The one that looks like lupine...it also looks a little like the penstemon family...it is quite an extensive plant species, and has the characteristic flowers like lupine or snapdragons, with the same openings...what do you think??
~Erin
the first one is bitterbrush, it is blooming right now here in Sun Valley
the second one you question is definitely a lupine (the leaves are the give away)
and the third ???? not enough information.... probably not fire weed as it is still early for that ...
An excellent resource Idaho Mountain Wildflowers by A. Scott Earle
Last one is definitely not fireweed. It's some sort of rockcress (Arabis sp.) in the mustard family.
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