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| Golden Pea Thermopsis montana |
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| Jacob's Ladder |
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| Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa v. microbotrys |
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| Calypso Orchid or Lady Slipper |
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| Lanceleaf Bluebells Mertensia lancelota |
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| Red Columbine Aquilegia desertorum |
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| Sidebells or One-Sided Wintergreen Orthilia secunda |
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| False Solomon Seal |
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| Mahonia or Oregon Grape |
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| Ninebark Physocarpus monogynus |
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| Rattlesnake Orchid Goodyera oblongiflora (bloom has dried) |
This hike at 10,000 ft. elevation had a lot of blooming wildflowers and was worth the time. I walked the Cienaga Canyon Trail on Monday (June 11th) and found the area fairly sparse and dry with the following wildflowers still blooming:
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| Dakota Vervain |
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| Rocky Mountain Pentstamen |
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| Northern Bedstraw Galium boreale |
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| White flowers on Jacob's Ladder |
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| New Mexico Scorpian Weed Phacelia neomexicana |
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| Dragonhead |
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| Scarlet Pentstemon |
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| Atlantis Fritillary Butterfly |
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| Capulin or Chokecherry (inmature fruit) |
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| Purple Geranium |
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| Northern Bog Violet |
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| Northern Bog Violet |
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| Hop Tree Ptelea trioliata |
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| Golden Smoke |
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| Yellow Clover Melilotus officinalis |
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| Northern Bog Violet Viola nephronphyllia |
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| Spike Verbena Verbena macdougalii |
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| Richardson's Geranium |
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| Tuber Starwort |
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| Giant Hyssop Agastache pallidiflora |
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| Caterpillar |
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| Sweet Cicely |
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| Blue flowers on Jacob's Ladder |
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| Mountain Figwort (a favorite of hummingbirds) |
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| Cienaga Spring where the Northern Bog Violets grow. Cutleaf Coneflower Rudbekia laciniata (not blooming yet) in foreground |
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| Northern Anemone or Windflower Anemone canadensis |
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| Windflowers were in full bloom by the side of the road just before the last parking area and trailhead |
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| Returning home at 5PM, I enjoyed that fabulous New Mexico sky |
On Tuesday (June 12th) I took a walk on the Tree Springs Trail and found very few wildflowers:
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| Western Wallflower |
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| Mountain Parsley |
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| Rocky Mountain Penstemon was a star here, blooming was at its peak |
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| Wild Strawberry |
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| Rocky Mountain Pentstemon |
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| Snowberry |
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| Small-leaf Pussytoes |
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| Flowers of Small-leaf Pussytoes |
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| Mountain Parsley |
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| Pretty Cinquefoil |
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| New Mexico Locust tree on the Oso Corredor Trail cut-off |
Fendler's Waterleaf or Squaw lettuce
Hydrophyllum fendleri |
| Tuber Starwort |
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| Rocky Mountain Pentstemon |
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| Rocky Mountain Clematis (not blooming yet) |
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| Whipple's Penstamon Pentstamon whippleanus |
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| Whipple's Penstamon is also called Dusky Penstamon |
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| Whipple's Penstamon |
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| Whipple's Penstamon |
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| Scarlet Penstamon Penstamon barbatus ssp. torreyi |
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| Western Yarrow Achillea millefolium |
I will lead the wildflower walks on Sandia Mountain trails June 16th and June 30th. Please meet at the Sandia Ranger Station in Tijeras at 9:00AM on any Saturday through August if you wish to join us.
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