Wildflowers

Add your State of Jefferson wildflower pictures
to the State of Jefferson wildflower page..
Please include the wildflower name, location, photographer
and date the photo was taken and any interesting information.
Send them to n6mrx@cot.net .
or mail them to:
Frank Cross
701 Meiss Lake Road
Macdoel, CA 96058
Enclose an SASE and I will return them.

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NAME THE FLOWERS
send to n6mrx@cot.net

#1 by Frank, N6MRX at Macdoel
#2 to #19 by Dave, K6SOJ, Nannette, KE6MZT at Macdoel
#20 to #21 by Donna, N6SVV, at Alturas
#22 to #26 by Carol Mattsson, at Marble Mountains Wilderness


#1 - Yellow Bells	#2 - Aster	#3 - Aster	#4 - Buckwheet


#5 - Phlox	#6 - ?	#7 - ?	#8 - Phacelia

#9 - ?	#10 - Penstemon	#11 - ?	#12 - Yarrow

#13 - Yarrow	#14 - ?	#15 - ?	#16 - ?

#17 - Phlox	#18 - Mariposa Lily	#19 - Mariposa Lily	#20 - ?

#21 - ?	#22 - white yarrow & corn lily leaves	#23 - ?	#24 - Prunella Vulgaris a.k.a. Self-Heal

#25 - blue penstemon	#26 - white-veined shinleaf	coming	coming

Photos #22 to #26.

Hi Frank,

My boyfriend Jim (WB6FMA) pointed out your website to me, where I enjoyed your
wildflower photos. Attached are five photos taken by me (Carol) that you may
consider for adding to the collection on your website.

These were all taken in the Marble Mountains wilderness in early July of this
year (2000). Jim and I enjoy backpacking and I was delighted to find the
wonderful collection of wildflowers on display on this trip.

Here is a description of each photo:

bigelow's sneezeweed meadow.jpg

Meadow at junction of Haypress and Let 'er Buck trails. You can see white
yarrow and the last of the corn lily leaves in this photo as well.

explorers gentian meteor lake.jpg

Meadow around Meteor Lake. Saw just a few of these.

pink like selfheal.jpg

Meadow around Monument Lake. I would sure like to know what this pretty pink
flower is. They were no taller than a couple of feet. I don't think it's a
paintbrush (castilleja) nor an owl's clover (orthocarpus) nor a self heal
(prunella). I hope one of your readers can identify it for us.

popular blue penstemon sandy ridge.jpg

The Sandy Ridge trail has wonderful views, but the temp was in the 90's that
day, so this photo brings back memories of a very hot hike. I saw this
penstemon quite often on the trip, but I just can't identify which one it is.
Again, I hope one of your readers can identify it for us.

white-veined shinleaf.jpg

The Marble Mountains Wilderness was the first place I have seen more than just
one or two of this plant. It seems to like the shady forest floor, we saw a lot
when walking in the woods. In the same areas I also saw pink Pipsissewa, also
in the wintergreen family, the first place I'd seen it besides in a wildflower
book, but my photo came out too out of focus to send you.

The photos were taken with a 35mm camera which the photo lab transferred to
photo CD. The CD contained JPEG files, and I was disappointed at the fuzziness
of all the images, although it's hard to get a focused image of a group of
wildflowers because you have to get close and thus have a narrow depth of
field. But oddly, the images looked pretty sharp on the prints.

As to naming the flowers you currently have on your web site, I think your
yellow #9 is a sulphur flower (Eriogonum umbellatum), the same plant as your
#4. And your #9 "Penstehoon" is spelled "Penstemon." Sorry, I could not
recognize any of the other unnamed ones, but I sure look forward to seeing them
on my next backpacktrip to the Marble Mountains.

Sincerely,
Carol Mattsson