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>Goat Peak Butterfly Field Trip

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The Native Plant Society organized a field trip to observe butterflies at Goat Peak yesterday. Wildflowers were numerous as well as the colorful bugs. Unfortunately smokey skies dimmed the mountain views.

 
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
Catch and release butterflies
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
A rhododendron, native to the east slope of the Cascades – something new to me!
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip
An unusual pink yarrow
Goat Peak Butterfly field trip

>Some scenes from yesterday’s windy dog walk

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Mariposa Lillies – an amazing wildflower that blooms among the dried grasses during the heat of the summer
Mariposa Lily

Mariposa Lily

Mariposa Lily

wild grasses
 
wild grasses

>May Wildflowers after a rain

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buckwheat
buckwheat
penstemon
penstemon
snowberry
snowberry
lupine leaves
lupine leaves 2
larkspur
larkspur
yarrow
yarrow
buckwheat
buckwheat
Thanks to Anaka for the name of this pretty little flower:
Phacelia linearis, line-leafed phacelia
lavender flower

>Early Balsamroot and Lupine

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My favorite spring combination of wildflowers.

Balsamroot

lupine

Balsamroot

lupine

Balsamroot

lupine

>Spring wildflowers and April snow

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Spring wildflowers in an April snow
Spring wildflowers in an April snow