Mahogany burn area wildflowers

 Two years ago the Mahogany fire burned 2700 acres on Mt Charleston east of Deer Creek road. The area now is devoid of live trees but is a great place for wildflowers to flourish. These are from June 7th 2022.

Sweet Clover at the trailhead.

We park in the Deer creek picnic lot and hike out the ridge till we come to the burned area. There is no trail.

The Thompson Penstemon are doing better here than any other place on the mountain.

Death Camus

Close-up of the Death Camus with ants and beetles.

Charleston Violets.

Thompson Penstemon

Thompson Penstemon

Thompson Penstemon

Blue Flax

Early Lily buds. Don't recognize the type at this stage. We went back three times before we caught some opening.

Charleston Violet

Drummonds false penyroyal. First time seeing this flower.

Drummonds false pennyroyal

Drummonds false pennyroyal

Prickly Poppy

Large areas of Scarlet Gilia.

Desert frasera, elkweed, swertia, green gentian

Coyote tobacco

Palmers Penstemon

Scarlet Gilia and Cooper Rubberweed

Charleston violet

Coyote Tobacco

Rattlesnake weed

White version of scarlet Gilia

Prickly Poppy

Went back on June 14 to see if any of the lilies had bloomed.

Scarlet Gilia mixed with Rose heath

Lobeleaf Groundsel

Giant Blazing star. This was on the roadside on the way up.

Mt Charleston Phacelia

Thompson Penstemon

A cryptantha

More lilies not blooming yet.

Coyote Tobacco

Thompson Penstemon

Evening Primrose

Prickly Poppy

Rose Heath

Seed pod of a Spotted Fritillary lilly

Thompson Penstemon

On June 18th we went back again and the lilies were open. I think they are Bruneau Mariposa. Can be called Sego Lilies.

Just starting to open

Fully open Sego lily

Wooly Mullein

Rose Heath

Likely a Hoary Aster

Sego Lily

A Milkvetch with dark hairy seed pods.

A bee in the Sego Lily

Common Thistle