We spent the entire day on White Mt. is in Inyo National Forest, which is east of Bishop, CA. We drove from highway 395 to Patriarch Grove. The best flowers were on the last 12 miles, which is the unpaved road between Schulman Grove, where the visitor center is, and the Patriarch Grove. All flowers were close to the road. Flowers are listed mainly from lowest to highest elevation with some exceptions. Click read more to see detailed plant list.
Whorled Milkweed/Aesclepias fascicularis with Monarch Butterfly
Yellow Spiderflower/Cleome lutea
Inflated Buckwheat/Eriogonum inflatum
Brittlebush/Encelia virginensis
Prince’s Plume/Stanleya pinnata
Skeleton Plant/Stephanomeria spinosa
Hooker’s Evening Primrose/Oenothera hookeri
Prickly Poppy/Argemone munita
An unidentifed mustard
Bridge’s Penstemon (red)/Penstemon rostriflorus
Sulphur Buckwheat/Eriogonum umbellatum
Mormon Tea/Ephedraviridis
Western Goldenbush/Ericameria
Jimson Weed/Datura wrightii
Beavertail Cactus/Opuntia basilaris
Desert Sweet/ Chamaebatiaria millefolium
Soda Straw/Angelica lineariloba
Coville’s Phlox/Phlox condensata
Mt. Pennyroyal/ Monardella odoratissima
Lupine/Lupinus argenteus
Mt. Wallflower/Erysiumum capitatum ssp. perrene
Pinzl’s Fleabane/Erigeron clokeyi var. pinzliae
Alpine Golde/Hulsea algida
Ruby Buckwheat/ eriogonum gracilipes
Flax/ Linum lewisii
Loco Weed/A very tiny Astragalus
Yarrow/Achillea millefolium
Showy Penstemon/Penstemon specious
Alpine Pincushion/Chaenactis Douglass var. alpina
Birds: Raven, Mt. Bluebird, Clark’s Nutcracker
Natural History Wanderings 
Leave a comment