Sierra Nevada foothill elevations: 500 – 3,000 feet
I say their names before squeezing the trigger,
focus and shoot – looking for someone I don’t know…
-JCD
Monkeyflower, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Bush Monkeyflower, Greasy Creek, 5.2.11
Manyflowered Monkeyflower, Greasy Creek, 5.16.2011
Purple Penstemon, Dry Creek, 5.5.2011
Satin Bells (Fairy Lantern), Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Satin Bells with seed pod, Greasy Creek, 5.2.11
Blue Lupine, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
White Lupine, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Miniature Lupine, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Brewer's Lupine, Dry Creek Road, 4.14.11
Purple Chinese Houses, Greasy Creek, 4.17.11
Phacelia (Scorpionweed) Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Lacepod, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Shepherd's Purse, Dry Creek, April 15, 2012
Fiesta Flower (Climbing Nemophila), Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Yellow Pincushion, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Dandelion, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Sierra Tidy Tips, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Agoseris, Dry Creek, 3.29.2009
Deltoid Balsamroot (Mule Ears), Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Mayweed, Dry Creek, May 19, 2011
Pygmy Poppy, Dry Creek, March 16, 2012
Bird's Eye Gilia & Goldfields, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Fiddleneck, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Popcorn Flower (Snowdrops), Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Prickly Popcorn Flower, Dry Creek, April15, 2012
Bird's Eye Gilia, Dry Creek, 4.11.11
Alkali Weed, Greasy Creek, March 29, 2012
Common Brodiaea (Blue Dicks), Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Elegant Brodiaea, Dry Creek, 5.8.2011
Kaweah Brodiaea, Dry Creek, 5.8.2011
Twining Brodiaea, Greasy Creek, 5.2.11
Pretty Face (Golden Brodiaea), Dry Creek, 4.6.11
Ithuriel's Spears (Grass Nut), Dry Creek, 4.17.11
White Brodiaea, (Wild Onion), Paregien, 4.10.2009
Sierra Shooting Star, Paregien, 3.20.2009
Baby Blue Eyes, Dry Creek, 3.24.2009
White-Veined Mallow, Dry Creek, 3.24.2009
Charming Centaury (Zeltnera venusta), Dry Creek, 5.27.2010
Long-stemmed Centaury (Zeltnera exalta), Dry Creek, 5.28.2011
Headed Gilia, Greasy Creek, 4.17.11
Blow Wives, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Pink Spineflower, Greasy Creek, 5.27.2010
Chia, Greasy Creek, 4.17.11
California Poppy, Dry Creek, 3.26.2010
Foothill Poppy (Frying Pan Poppy)
White Mariposa, Dry Creek, 4.21.11
White Mariposa, Dry Creek, 4.21.11
Yellow Mariposa, Dry Creek, 5.5.11
Farewell to Spring, (Winecups, Evening Primrose), Greasy Creek, 5.2.11
White Winecups, Dry Creek, 5.8.2010
White Mustard, Dry Creek, 4.21.11
Summer Mustard, Dry Creek, 4.21.11
Showy Milkweed, Paregien Ranch, 6.12.11
Purple Milkweed, Greasy Creek, 5.2.11
Narrow-Leaf Milkweed, Greasy Creek, 7.28.11
Red-Stem Filaree, Dry Creek, 4.6.11
White-Stem Filaree, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Wild Geranium (Cranesbill), Dry Creek, 4.6.11
Mustang Clover, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Mustang Clover, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Downy Pincushionplant, Dry Creek, 5.5.2011
White Owl's Clover (Valley Tassels), Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
Purple Owl's Clover, Dry Creek, 4.12.11
Bur Clover, Dry Creek, 5.27.2010
Carpet Clover, Dry Creek, 5.28.2011
Tomcat Clover, Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Tomcat Clover, Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Strawberry Clover, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Yellow Sweet Clover, Dry Creek, 5.5.2011
Johnny Tuck, Dry Creek, 3.29.2009
Yellow Sorrel, Dry Creek, 4.21.2011
Hairy Vetch, Dry Creek Road, 4.14.11
Windmill Pink, Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Windmill Pink, Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Wild Radish, Dry Creek, 3.27.2009
Wild Radish, Dry Creek, 3.27.2009
Woodland Star, Greasy Creek, 5.5.2011
Common Peppergrass, Dry Creek, 4.10.2009
Wallflower, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
London Rocket, Dry Creek, 4.6.2009
Sweet Alyssum, Greasy Creek, 5.11.2009
Floating Primrose, Dry Creek, 5.19.2011
Silvercrown Lucina, Greasy Creek, 3.27.2009
Lomatium (Biscuitroot), Greasy Creek, 3.27.2009
Common Yarrow, Dry Creek, 5.11.2009
Paiute Morning Glory (Western Morning Glory), Greasy Creek, 5.5.2011
Elegant Clarkia, Greasy Creek, 5.8.2010
Elegant Clarkia, Greasy Creek, 5.15.2011
Pineapple Weed, Dry Creek, 4.17.11
Rock Lettuce, Greasy Creek,4.6.11
Silver Bird's-foot Trefoil, Greasy Creek, April 7, 2012
Slender Cottonweed, Dry Creek, April 3, 2012
Miner's Lettuce, Dry CReek, 4.17.11
Wild Grape, Dry Creek, 4.6.2009
Wild Grape, Dry Creek, July 3, 2013
Tree Tobacco. Dry Creek, 4.6.2009
Black Nightshade, Dry Creek, 6.8.2009
Jimsonweed, Dry Creek, 6.13.2009
California Yerba Santa, Dry Creek, 4.5.2009
Wooly Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, May 11, 2013
Wooly Mullein, Dry Creek – May 11, 2013
Tarweed, Dry Creek – August 11, 2013
Chaparral Honey Suckle, Greasy Creek, 6.10.2009
Bush Beardtongue, Greasy Creek, 5.27.2010
Pipe Stem Clematis, Dry Creek, 4.2.2009
California Everlasting (California Cudweed), Greasy Creek, 4.10.2009
Button Willow (Cephalanthus occidentalis californica ) – Dry Creek, July 3, 2013
Foothill Gooseberry (Oak Gooseberry), Dry Creek, 6.3.2011
Wild Cucumber (Sierra Man-root), Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Wild Cucumber seed pods, Greasy Creek, 4.17.11
Common Gourd, Dry Creek, 6.13.09
Milk Thistle, Dry Creek, 4.21.11
Italian Thistle, Dry Creek, 5.16.2011
Yellow Starthistle, Dry Creek, 7.11.2009
Spiny-Sepaled Button-Celery (Coyote Thistle), Dry Creek, 5.7.2011
Western Redbud, Paregien Ranch, 4.14.11
Chemise, Greasy Creek, 4.6.11
California Spicebush, Greasy Creek, 6.28.11
Valley Elderberry, Dry Creek, 5.5.2011
Manzanita, Paregien, 3.20.2009
Find more photographs of wildflowers and some of their native uses in the Dry Crik Journal archives: Wildflowers
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This collection of wildflowers makes me long for spring in Arizona. I won’t wish my life away, though… looking forward to fall colors in Minnesota in a few weeks. Your collection of known wildflowers is much greater than my own. 🙂
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