Golden Pea Thermopsis montana |
Jacob's Ladder |
Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa v. microbotrys |
Calypso Orchid or Lady Slipper |
Lanceleaf Bluebells Mertensia lancelota |
Red Columbine Aquilegia desertorum |
Sidebells or One-Sided Wintergreen Orthilia secunda |
False Solomon Seal |
Mahonia or Oregon Grape |
Ninebark Physocarpus monogynus |
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:
Dakota Vervain |
Rocky Mountain Pentstamen |
Northern Bedstraw Galium boreale |
White flowers on Jacob's Ladder |
New Mexico Scorpian Weed Phacelia neomexicana |
Dragonhead |
Scarlet Pentstemon |
Atlantis Fritillary Butterfly |
Capulin or Chokecherry (inmature fruit) |
Purple Geranium |
Northern Bog Violet |
Northern Bog Violet |
Hop Tree Ptelea trioliata |
Golden Smoke |
Yellow Clover Melilotus officinalis |
Northern Bog Violet Viola nephronphyllia |
Spike Verbena Verbena macdougalii |
Richardson's Geranium |
Tuber Starwort |
Giant Hyssop Agastache pallidiflora |
Caterpillar |
Sweet Cicely |
Blue flowers on Jacob's Ladder |
Mountain Figwort (a favorite of hummingbirds) |
Cienaga Spring where the Northern Bog Violets grow. Cutleaf Coneflower Rudbekia laciniata (not blooming yet) in foreground |
Northern Anemone or Windflower Anemone canadensis |
Windflowers were in full bloom by the side of the road just before the last parking area and trailhead |
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:
Western Wallflower |
Mountain Parsley |
Rocky Mountain Penstemon was a star here, blooming was at its peak |
Wild Strawberry |
Rocky Mountain Pentstemon |
Snowberry |
Small-leaf Pussytoes |
Flowers of Small-leaf Pussytoes |
Mountain Parsley |
Pretty Cinquefoil |
New Mexico Locust tree on the Oso Corredor Trail cut-off |
Fendler's Waterleaf or Squaw lettuce
Hydrophyllum fendleri |
Tuber Starwort |
Rocky Mountain Pentstemon |
Rocky Mountain Clematis (not blooming yet) |
Whipple's Penstamon Pentstamon whippleanus |
Whipple's Penstamon is also called Dusky Penstamon |
Whipple's Penstamon |
Whipple's Penstamon |
Scarlet Penstamon Penstamon barbatus ssp. torreyi |
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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