Mt. Ashland Wildflower Bowl

What a fabulous day on Mt Ashland for serious wildflower geeks. The flowers kept growing, from thigh-high, to shoulder-high to high above us as we traveled along the PCT towards Grouse Gap. Of course we never got near the place with so many flowers to keep us busy taking pictures, peering into their private parts and discussing their identification. This wildflower walk never fails to top the list of the season with good reason.

Here’s what we saw:

Alice’s fleabane
American bistort
American sawwort
Arrowleaf ragwort
Bigalow’s sneezeweed
Bolander’s madia
California California corn lily
Columbian leopard/tiger lily
Columbian monkshood
Common yarrow
Cow parsnip
Few-flowered bog orchid
Fireweed
Grand collomia
Intermediate dogbane
Large boykinia
Lyall’s angelica
Mountain coyote mint/monardia
Naked stem hawksbeard
Nettle-leaf giant hyssop (not horsemint)
One-seeded pussypaws
Orange agosteris
Oregon sunshine

Plumed Soloman’s seal
Oregon checkermallow
Ranger’s buttons
Rosy pussypaws
Seep monkeyflower/mimulus
Scouler’s wollyweed
Silverleaf phacelia
Siskiyou mountain or toothed owl’s clover
Siskiyou penstemon
Scarlet gilia
St Johnswort
Sheep sorrel
Sulfur-flower buckwheat
Tower delphinium
Wavy-leaf Indian paintbrush Western columbine
Western mountain aster
Western wallflower
White plectritis

Flowering shrubs:
Blue elderberry
Snowberry
Thimbleberry

Hike Leader: Liz

Photos By: Kay