Where to photograph in California – Yahoo Groups has the following wildflower report for the Tahoe Area
Truckee/Donner/Tahoe area, and boy are the wildflowers blooming there. Last week’s storms/rain/hail/snow (!) should help keep them going for a bit too. Here’s a bit of detail:Lots of sulfur buckwheat along 80 as you reach the summit, along with other blooms.Trails above Donner Lake starting at the Glacier Bay parking: covered in white ceanothus and a nice variety of other flowers, especially Monardella and yellow Asteraceae.Lacey Meadow (near Webber Lake, off of 89): Lush with grasses and flowers, especially along the creek. As you walk down the trail, a tide of grasshoppers parts in front of you.
Meadows around Sagehen campground (probably other wet meadows too) are full of flowers, including Rein orchids, paintbrush, bistort, purple asters, corn lilies, lupine, monkshood, leopard lilies…
My class also hiked above Lake Tahoe, sorry I don’t remember the trail, but it wasn’t far from Incline Village. Here was also very colorful and diverse, with paintbrushes, asters, phlox, buckwheats, Penstemon, Monardella, Gilia…
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