I ended up taking lots more pictures of flowers that I ever imagined.
Rather that spreading them out, I created a page to hold all my flower
pictures. It's my access to the macro lens on my camera that's making
all this possible.
Unfortunately, I don't know the names of most of them. I've numbered each
image. Email
me if you know the name and be sure to include the number.
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Possibly hedgehog or calico cactus*
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Ceanothus
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Manzanita
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Tamarisk*
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Violet
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Possibly Stephanomeria*
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Yucca blossom in rain.
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Yucca
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Yucca blossom, extrordonaire
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Yucca blossom, from the top.
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Snow plant. These pop up all over the place.
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Detail of snow plant
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Milkweed, genus Asclepias*
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Probably genus Dicentra*
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Penstemon*
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Fremont Flannel
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Western Wallflower
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Gilia
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Scarlet columbine with a bug spending the night inside.
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Cinquefoils.
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A salmon and yellow Indian Paintbrush.
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A red and yellow Indian Paintbrush.
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A bright happy Mule's Ear flower.
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Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana)* This is the first
I've seen in the Sierra.
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Larkspur. I love larkspur.
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Scarlet Gilia (firecracker)
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Shooting Stars, yes they are.
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Sky Pilot. I wish I could put the smell on the site.
These guys grow way up high where the wind is strong enough to keep
most of the snow off of them.
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A lovely phlox and moss image, if I do say so myself.
Taken at the top of Mather Pass.
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These looked like anemones.
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A wild strawberry blossom.
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I used to think all flowers that looked like this were asters,
but I learned on the trip that they are part of a big family that
includes asters.
You can see the shadow of a spider on an upper pedal.
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An azalea. We saw lots of faded blooms, and I felt lucky
to get this one.
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Blackberry blossom
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Flax. These were hard to photograph. They grew in windy
spots and moved a lot.
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Camus lily.
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Monkey Flower
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Rein orchid.
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This looked like an orchid too.
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Fringed Indian Pink
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Tiger Lilly or a Leopard Lilly
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A white burst!
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Washington lilies
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Anenome, gone to seed.
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.Mariposa lily
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.Brodiaea (related to onions and lilies)*
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a species of genus Prunus.*
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Phantom orchid
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Corn lily, genus Veratrum*
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This pitcher plant agreed to have its picture taken
only if I promised to put it in with the flowers.
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These guys were amazing.
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Indian Paintbrush. I know I have others, but this one
was great.
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Monkey flower of some kind. Perry's?.
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Bluebells.
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I found it very difficult to get a good image of Monk's
Hood.
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Delphinium, thick and lovely.
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Ubiquitous Fireweed
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