Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: Mile-High Wildflowers
These pictures were taken at around 5000 feet elevation at Devils Punchbowl County Park and the adjacent Angeles National Forest. It is in the San Gabriel Mountains, on the north or desert side but at high enough elevation that it is not desert here. This is in Los Angeles County, California.
This is the "punchbowl". Click to see full size image
scarlet bugler Click to see full size image
fremontia Click to see full size image
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I don't know what this is. Click to see full size image
manzanita Click to see full size image
I think this is some kind of gilia. Click to see full size image
I think this is another kind of gilia. Click to see full size image
California milkweed Click to see full size image
some kind of lupine Click to see full size image
western wallflower Click to see full size image
Notice the snow on the tops of the mountains. Click to see full size image
Bigelow monkeyflower Click to see full size image
another view of the punchbowl Click to see full size image
I think this is some kind of phacelia Click to see full size image
some kind of ceanothus Click to see full size image
I think this is yet another kind of gilia. Click to see full size image
very steep mountains Click to see full size image
view looking toward the desert Click to see full size image
These pictures were taken in the Angeles National Forest on the south or ocean side of San Gabriel Mountains. Again, the elevation is around 5000 feet. This side of the mountains gets more rain than the other side, so some of the plants are different.
forest and chaparral - The white flowers are Our Lord's Candle, Yucca whipplei. Click to see full size image
prickly phlox Click to see full size image
the beautiful symmetry of Yucca whipplei Click to see full size image
a very tall Yucca whipplei flower stalk - DH is standing right underneath it. Click to see full size image
Can you tell that this is one of my favorite plants? Click to see full size image
yellow monkeyflower Click to see full size image
Grinnell's penstemon Click to see full size image
a creek with water - That may sound redundant to you, but we have a lot of creeks without water much of the time. Click to see full size image
incense-cedar - This is the tree of cedar chest fame. Click to see full size image
canyon liveforever Click to see full size image
a view of the forest - It is a lot more open than an eastern forest. That is because the rainfall here is less and to some degree because of fire. Click to see full size image
This pictures were taken on Mt. Pinos, in the Los Padres National Forest in California. The Chumash Indians believed that Mt. Pinos was the middle of the world. I can see how they would have thought that. From the top, it's just endless mountains and valleys as far as you can see in every direction. The elevation here is between 8300 and 8800 ft.
These pictures were taken at Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. We where there in September, so I have added a couple pictures that strictly are not flowers.
some kind of aster
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Indian paintbrush
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bluebells
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mountain-ash
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Richardson geranium
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I'm not sure what this is
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wild rose
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fringed gentian
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spotted knapweed
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sulfur buckwheat
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yarrow
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some kind of pink?
Click to see full size image _________________ So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:3b
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