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Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:26 pm
by The Other Tom
We had a wonderful trip in Yosemite in mid July. I've finally gone through 500 photos and need help identifying some wildflowers. Any experts out there ?
Pic one. I'm pretty sure this is indian paintbrush but would like validation.
Pic two
We saw these everywhere, usually around rock outcropings
Pic three
We found these in a bog along Glacier Point Road
Pic four
Pic five
Found on the trail from May Lake to Mt. Hoffman (nope, didn't make it to the top)
Pic Five
Delicate flower in TM
Pic six
OK, maybe not a flower, but interesting none the less

Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:50 am
by hikerduane
1. Yes
2 Looks like Heather? but can't tell from the foliage. Found around alpline lakes.
3. Tall plants are Corn lily, flowers blooming look like Shooting Stars.
Off to work.
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:35 am
by Snow Nymph
2. I would guess heather also
3. showy penstemon? Phacelia? Hard to tell without zooming in
5. (delicate) larkspur
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:57 pm
by oldranger
1. correct
2. I have no sense of scale to hazzard a guess
3. Looks like jeffry shooting stars to me
4. Goldenrod?
5. phlox (but specifically what kind is beyond me)
2nd #5. ???:?
6. Grasses other than Idaho fescue are way beyond me
I'm sure Tehipite Tom can set us all straight!
Mike
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:03 pm
by SSSdave
All quite common wildflowers,
Castilleja miniata, great red paintbrush
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_ ... ,7206,7247" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Phyllodoce breweri,red heather
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_ ... ,3586,3587" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dodecatheon alpinum, Alpine Shooting Star
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_ ... ,6403,6404" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
? know the name, just escapes me at this moment, Asteraceae family
Phlox diffusa, Spreading Phlox
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_ ... ,5899,5904" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Delphinium polycladon, Mountain Marsh Larkspur
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_ ... polycladon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:06 pm
by The Other Tom
Thanks everyone !!
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:55 pm
by SSSdave
Once back home, your overexposed yellow flowers took less than a minute to find in one of my flower books, railardella scaposa, greenleaf railardella.
Re: Need help with wildflower ID
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:21 am
by The Other Tom
Thanks, Dave