pickleweed

Lanceleaf Stoncrop, Sedum lanceolatum - I think - growing amongst mosses and Selaginella on a rock outcrop in the Sutton Mountain Wilderness Study Area. This group had tiny leaves, much smaller than most photographs I've seen of S.lanceolatum, but don't quite match any other sedums in the John Day River Basin near the John Day National Monument areas.

Spotted Fritillary, Fritillaria atropurpurea, flowering along a stand of Western Juniper, within the Devil's Garden meadows of the Modoc Plateau

1. Siskiyou Inside-Out Flower

(Vancouveria chrysantha)

2. Pacific Starflower

(Lysimachia latifolia)

3. Purple Larkspur

(Delphinium sp)

4. Paintbrush

(Castilleja sp)

5. Meadow Death Camas

(Toxicoscordion venenosum?)

6. Tolmie's Pussy-Ears

(Calochortus tolmiei)

7. California Lady Slipper

(Cypripedium californicum)

Six Rivers National Forest, California

Checker Lily, Frittilaria affinis , growing under Oregon White Oak, Quercus garryana, in early May at 2900'.

The beautiful and endangered California Lady Slipper, Cypripedium californicum, blooming in Northern California alongside Pitcher Plants, Darlingtonia Californica.

California Fetid Adderstongue, Scoliopus bigelovii, flowering in the Redwood understory.

Reno to Mammoth

Lassen

South of Susanville

A few more Collybia nuda, Wood Blewits, found under Monterrey Cypress on a coastal bluff.

Collybia nuda, the Wood Blewit, fruiting below Monterrey Cypress, on a coastal bluff.

Early snow on Horse Mountain.

Fall. Oregon Ash, Fraxinus latifolia, and Bigleaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum, with beautiful yellow foliage.

Mountain Ash from a cold wet window