wildflowers

This week’s plant is another lily, Death Camas. Anticlea elegans is its new name, and Zigadenis elegans is its old […]

This week’s wildflower is one of our most beautiful—mariposa lily (Calochortus nuttallii).  It blooms in our high mountain meadows, often

This week’s flower is a beauty—bee balm or monarda  (Monarda fistula var. menthifolia).   It’s a lot prettier than my

  This week’s flower is Purple Easter Daisy, Townsendia eximia.  It’s called Easter Daisy because its stemless white cousin, T.

The flower this week is again two:  purple (P.strictrus) and scarlet (P. barbatus) penstemon. They are showing sparingly all around our

This week’s wildflower is two. Both are columbines— the blue one, Colorado Columbine (Aquilegia coerulea), and the red one, Elegant

  This week’s flower is the fairy slipper orchid, Calypso bulbosa.  This is perhaps the most beautiful, breathtaking flower we

This week’s wildflower is known and loved by many—Indian paintbrush (Castilleja integra).  It is found most often among Piñons and

This week’s flower is growing in many places both in White Rock and the Townsite often in large numbers—very impressive