Cedar Breaks early wildflowers, and later ones too.

 

Cedar Breaks has a wildflower festival in July but we were there June 9th. The drought has affected this high plateau and this season will not be the Best.

Biscuitroot. one of the earliest wildflowers.

A kind of Fleabane

Blue bells

Bluebells

The most numerous flower was the common dandelion

I believe this is an elderberry

Another Biscuitroot

Monument plant. the signature plant of Cedar Breaks.

New flower to me. Suspect it is a kind of Draba. Looks like the Drabas on Fletcher peak.

I'm told that this one is Hitchcocks Bladderpod. It looks just like one on Fletcher peak that I was told is a different Bladderpod.

Cushion Phlox

Young Spruce cones.

Cedar Breaks Gilia

New one, Kitten tails.

Cedar Breaks large Great Basin Bristlecone.

A sandwort.

Anemone flower

Anemone flower

Prickley currant

 Monumnent plant.

Clover with butterfly

Same

Wild Iris.

fleabane

Larkspur

Larkspur

Fleabane

Fleabane

Tall mustard

mustard

A kind of Fritillary

same thing

groundsel

New one to me. Nevada Lewisia. Bitterroot.

Very small king of Primrose.

Cinquefoil

Buttercup

Buttercup

Buttercup

Buttercup

Cinquefoil

Cinquefoil

Penstemon, whorled. 

Same thing

Prairie Smoke.

Prairie Smoke

White columbine

Penstemon

Penstemon

 Pygmy Lewisia, Bitterroot.

Blue columbine.

False biscuitroot?

Better close-up of that small primrose.

mustard

sandwort

draba

draba

current

strawberry

kittentails

Kittentails

kittentails

parrys primrose

Lupine

wedgeleaf draba

violet

yellow bellied marmot

Pygmy flowered rock jasmine

Pygmy flowered rock jasmine

pygmy flowered rock jasmine

fern leaf licorice root

sunflowers

Bryce gilia

death camas

Death camas

kitten tails

Three trees. Spuuce, limber pine, bristlecone pine

Spruce

Parrys Primrose

Marsh Marigold

Marsh Marigold

Columbine and bluebells

Twinberry

Cedar breaks gilia

Bluebells

Markagunt penstemon

Lupine

Sunflowers and Fern leaf licorice root

Markagunt pentemon

Cinquefoil

Rydberg's Penstemon

Cinquefoil

Little leaf pussy toes

Markagunt penstemon

Sulphur buchwheat

Columbine

Monument plant

Cinquefoil

Bluebells

Bluebells

Shrubby Cinquefoil

Markagunt penstemon

Columbine

Monument plants

Rydberg's penstemon and buckwheat

Columbine

Colunbine

Fleabane and sandwort

Rydberg's penstemon

Larkspur

Heart-leaved bittercrest

Heart-leaved bittercrest

Willowherb

Richardsons gerainum

Richardsons geranium

Bluebells

Milkvetch

Anemone

Anemone

Jacobs ladder

Jacobs ladder

Jacobs ladder

Cinquefoil

Markagunt penstemon

Fleabane

Pygmy flowered rock jasmine

Pygmy flowered rock jasmine

Pygmy flowered rock jasmine

Buttercup

Tall mustard

Fendlers sandwort

Fendlers sandwort