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Not sure where to put this, so feel free to move to a more appropriate forum.

I've recently gotten more into identifying the animals/flora I see on my backpacking trips. I've been using the Law's Field Guide...here's what I came up with on my recent excursion up Pine Creek Canyon to Granite Park and Italy Pass. Do these look correct? There are two I couldn't find in Law's Guide...
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Two More. Thanks in advance!
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I find Laird Blackwell's book best for visually identifying Eastern Sierra wildflowers in the field.

Mountain larkspur has other common names but is penstemon heterodoxus.
Not bitterroot but rather red heather, phyllodoce breweri.
Unknown Italy Pass is roseroot, sedum rosea.
Pink unknown flower is a wild rose, rosa woodsii.
Sierra daisy is alpine dwarf daisy, erigeron pygmaeus.

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SSSDave wrote:
I find Laird Blackwell's book best for visually identifying Eastern Sierra wildflowers in the field.
Yes, Blackwell has quite a collection of books which are immensely helpful.
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Thanks for the book suggestions, I'll take a look at them.

I didn't have my guidebook while hiking, so had to do the IDs after the fact which makes it a bit harder to count petals, look at leaf details, etc. Thanks for the help - there's a lot of diversity once you get past the whole 'oooh, pretty!' aspect, so its a bit daunting. Plus, being a scientist I want to KNOW, not just guess...so of course I have to stop and try to document every new one I see. So much for fast hiking ...
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Can anyone ID this flower? Saw this on the descent down to the West Ridge of Conness this past weekend. Really cool, as it was basically the only pink thing around... I thought it was a hat or something that someone left behind.

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SnowyMonk wrote:Can anyone ID this flower? Saw this on the descent down to the West Ridge of Conness this past weekend. Really cool, as it was basically the only pink thing around... I thought it was a hat or something that someone left behind.

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Thanx
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