Hadley-Ives family photographs from 2013. Page 5.

Page 5 features photographs of flowers and plants.
2013 photographs: page 1; page 2; page 3; page 4; this is page 5; page 6; page 7; page 8;

Some of the Penstemon at Spirit Mound was a pale shade of pink purple. The prairie beardtongue was the largest flower at Spirit Mound in mid-June. We saw lots of spiderwort along the trail to the top of Spirit Mound.
Some Prairie Phlox (Phlox pilosa) at Spirit Mound. Locoweed in Badlands National Park. This is also locoweed (Oxytropis lambertii), but it had more of a hot pink color, probably due to soil conditions or genetics.
This is a plains prickly pear (Opuntia polcantha) in Badlands National Park. Here is a copper mallow (also known as globemallow) Sphaeralcea coccinea in Badlands National Park. Some White Penstemon (Penstemon digitalis) growing on a slope in Badlands National Park.
I am not entirely sure what this flower (near Center Lake Campground in the Black Hills) is. It looks mostly like some species in the genus Hymenoxys. Probably that, and not a ragleaf bahia. I guess this is a star of Bethelem (Ornithogalum nutans). It was growing along the Cathedral Spires Trail, near the Pinnacle Highway. Here was a Spreadfruit Goldenbanner (Thermopsis divaricarpa) growing near the oxbow overlook in Grand Teton National Park. Or, perhaps it is a Prairie goldenbean (Thermopsis rhombifolia). At any rate, it is some sort of wild yellow pea.
Sticky Geranium (Geranium viscosissimum). Here was a pale Blue Flax flower (Linum lewisii) growing in Yellowstone near Mammoth Hot Springs. This tree growing out of a cone in Mammoth Hot Springs Upper Terrace seemed interesting.
On the shores of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park I saw this flower, which I think is Whiskbroom parsley (Harbouria trachepleura). Whiskbroom parsley just grows in a few states. Camas and Subalpine Buttercup growing in the meadow near our campsite at Bridge Bay Campground in Yellowstone. Camas (Camassia quamash) has a bulb root that can be used as a food source, and was widely eaten by early Americans in lands that have become Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington.
A wild rose (Rosa woodsii) in Rocky Mountain National Park. This Boulder Raspberry Flower (Oreobatus deliciosus) was growing in Rocky Mountain National Park. The berries are not tasty. This cluster of prairie chickweed was growing in the Old Faithful Geyser area in Yellowstone.
A white lupin in Rocky Mountain National Park. In Rocky Mountain National Park we saw many clusters of lupin, including this Silvery Lupine (Lupinus argenteus). The meadows and slopes of Rocky Mountain National Park have many clusters of Rocky Mountain beardtongue (Penstemon strictus Bench.).
Greenleaf Chimingbells (Mertensia lanceolata viridis). Alpine bluebells (Mertensia alpina). Bluebells (Mertensia) are fairly common at high elevations in the west during June. Back in Central Illinois we seem these in late April or early May.
Cinquefoil is pretty common in South Dakota and Wyoming. Is it leafy cinquefoil (Drymocallis fissa) or Northwest Cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis) or Blueleaf Cinquefoil (Potentilla diversifolia). When we hiked around in the Grand Teton National Park in mid-June we saw lots of the Creeping Mahonia (Creeping Barberry, Mahonia repens) Pebbles on some driftwood on the shore of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park
Sego lily (Mariposa lily) Calochortus nuttallii. Pink Dwarf Buckwheat (Eriogonum ovalifolium). Small fringed gentian (Gentianopsis detonsa).
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Alpine Forget-me-not (Eritrichum aretioides). Dwarf Clover (Trifolium nanum). The trail near the Alpine Visitor Center took us past some Snow Buttercup (Ranunculus adoneus).
King’s Crown (Rhodiola integrifolia) just emerging from the grown in June after the snow has melted. Here are some King's Crown that have grown a bit taller, but still have not broken out into blossom. The King's Crown looks very much like Queen's Crown (Rhodiola rhodantha). Rock Primrose (Androsace septentrionalis).
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Western Wallflower (Erysimum capitatum). These are yellow Western Wallflowers we saw a up in the high country of Colorado. Alpine Parsley (Oreoxis alpina). In June there was a lot of this along West Ute Trail near the Alpine Visitors Center in Rocky Mountain National Park.
 
     

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The 2013 Photo album pages:

  • Page 1, adorable creatures we saw during our trip to Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains
  • Page 2, Scenery, including over a dozen photographs of Mt Moran in the Grand Tetons.
  • Page 3, Water and geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park.
  • Page 4, Photographs of people (of us, our family, our friends)
  • This is page 5, Plants and flowers we admired in 2013
  • Page 6, Photographs from Colorado, mostly the Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Page 7, Photographs from Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota
  • Page 8, Photographs from 2013 mostly in the first half of the year
  • Page 9, Photographs from 2013 mostly taken in the second half of the year
  • Page 10. Photographs from the end of November through December, all in Taiwan.