Bryce Canyon June 2022

 This was our first time hiking extensivly in the canyon. We did Fairyland, Queens Garden/Peakaboo, and Swamp Canyon loop. We drove up on a thursday and hiked Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The first view of the canyon at Bryce point.

One of the trails down that we later hiked.

Friendly raven at natural bridge lookout.

On our first hiking day we started down from Sunrise point to hike Fairyland trail counter clockwise. We spotted a car at Fairyland point to shorten the hike by 2.5 miles of rim walking.

The morning light was very good.

An Evening Primrose

Lavendarleaf Sundrop.....another primrose

Rock columbine. We have them on Mt Charleston too in about 5 different colors.

Bryce Canyon Paintbrush.

Many flowered Stoneseed

Many flowered stonseed

Petersons catchfly.

Coyote mint

King Flax

More Rock Columbine

???

Brenda looking through a trail tunnel

I think itlooks like Galileo

This is the Queen for which Queens Garden is named.

Angelica

Many flowered stoneseed

Wild rose

Mat Penstemon.

Wild Clemantis

Different Penstemon

Monument plant

Wild Clemantis

Richardsons geranium

Deer Vetch???

Lupine

Mountain snow berry

Richardsons geranium

Sand wort

Cinquefoil

King Flax

Skeleton plant

Falls at Mossy cave

Sego lilly

On the way home we went by Red Canyon and Cedar Breaks to see if the flowers were out yet.

King flax

Winged Buckwheat

Pigmy townsend daisy

Red canyon buckwheat

Red canyon buckwheat

Bryce canyon paintbrush

Red canyon buckwheat

another buckwheat

an unknown milkvetch

sand wort

Red canyon penstemon with dried flowers

Brych paintbruse, a small limber pine, and one yellow flower

Rock columbine

Red cnayon buckwheat

Red canyon buckwheat

mini townesend daisy

Hitchcock bladderpod

Hitchcock bladderpod

same

Mat penstemon

winged buckwheat

globe mallow

lavender leafed sundrop

mat penstemon

a fleabane

a different fleabane

Prairie smoke

buttercup

larkspur