Natural History Wanderings

Oregon Wildflowers  has a new wildflower report for Jefferson Park in the central Oregon Cascades on 7/22/15

Jefferson Park is at 5,880-foot elevation, and this is about the park and nearby area approaching on the Whitewater trail. The real story here was the thousands of beautiful blue gentian, which began at the bridge just before the PCT junction and continuing into the park. Most of the wildflowers were in this area — also some (not a lot) asters, monkeyflower, paintbrush, and earlier on this trail a blooming fireweed stem here and there