Some hiking in the Pacific Northwest

[nartreb]

trip report hosted elsewhere

Additional photos slowly being added to my personal website (link below)

 

[audrey]

Looks like another place to add to my bucket list. Thanks.
It's all about the flowers (when there are no views).

 

[Darl58]

hey Dave, great pics! Sorry that your trip didn't end on a happy note! It stinks to have to deal with crap when on vacation!!

Those peaks will still be there and you'll get climbers to go with you!!!

Good luck with all the dealings with the car!!

 

[arghman]

what audrey and darlene said....

[[sound of arghman getting out last year's Glacier NP plant books]]

http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.php?object_id=538911 = a Phacelia (hastata?) of some sort; waterleaf family flowers are very distinctive w/ stamens sticking out quite a ways.

http://www.summitpost.org/image/543377/539886/plants.html = something in the Saxifrage family; could be partridgefoot (Luetkea pectinata)

http://www.summitpost.org/image/538908/539886/aster.html = I'm going to guess Townsendia; one book I have says the involucral bracts (always important in asters and aster-like plants) are in several rows, as is clearly visible in your photo. T. alpigena and T. scapigena and T. parryi are known from Oregon.

http://www.summitpost.org/image/538909/539886/aster.html = love this photo... a stumper, probably the same species as this other one:
http://www.summitpost.org/image/538964/539886/asteracean.html
very distinctive (pinnately-lobed basal leaves... could be a Senecio) but I dunno.

http://www.summitpost.org/image/538954/539886/flowers.html = yes, Saxifraga I think, but you need leaves/stems to ID.

 

[nartreb]

Many thanks, arghman.

What about this one? Buckwheat? Phacelia?

Yes, partridgefoot is the name I saw in the photo book while I was waiting in the ranger station.

Yes, I believe the two yellow asters are the same species.

The saxifraga's stems were, IIRC, perfectly smooth and unremarkable except for their color. The leaves, as you can almost guess through the bokeh, were small, oval, dark, shiny, thick, rubbery-looking, and hairless, though I didn't peek at the undersides.

 

[audrey]

Definitely a buckwheat, though I don't know the species. Here's a pic of Eriogonum ovalifolium from the Sierras in California - the flowers are very similar.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2843284980070644097SOlApn

 

[arghman]

Had another moment and got out my Peterson's Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers. My guess on the yellow aster is either Balsamorhiza hookeri, or Hulsea nana. I vote for the Hulsea:


(from http://www.mountainflora.ca/Flora_of_the_Coast_Ranges/Hulsea_nana.html:

Hulsea nana (Dwarf hulsea) is a characteristic member of the talus flora on volcanoes from Northern California to Washington. The bright yellow aster-like flowers contribute an outstanding display of colour embedded in an otherwise sombre volcanic substrate. The crinkly edged leaves are hairy and sticky with glands. At high elevations (e.g. on Mt Shasta in Northern California), plants tend to be much more hairy. This may help to reflect away harmful ultra violet radiation.

)

 

[nartreb]

Between those two, dwarf alpinegold (Hulsea nana) is by far the better match. Hooker's balsamroot has leaves that are just... wispier, and flowers with bigger bracts.

Thanks to both of you.

 

[MarkJ]

Brings back the memories of doin 6-700 miles of the PCT back in the day.We went by Mt Bach and got stuck in a 2 day storm up on the Sisters.We baled for a while and went to Bend where some guy let us camp on his ranch.Your pics show me what we couldn't see,since it was snowy there even in late june

 

[nartreb]

Photos from Tinkham, South Sister and Bachelor are up on my website so far.

Couple more flower IDs please?

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[arghman]

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Appears to be a Polemonium sp (perhaps P. pulcherrimum... P. viscosum = sky pilot has lots of sticky hairs) and a Penstemon maybe. The Penstemon I have no idea, there are way too many Penstemon spp. in the western states for mere mortals to comprehend.