We drove over Sonora Pass as we were told Yosemite and Groveland were both very smokey.
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The drive over Sonora Pass is very scenic. It included snowy mountain landscapes and many species of wildflowers in bloom. The best blooms were in the higher elevations over 8000 feet. Today’s iPhone photos
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Sonora Pass Plant list of Blooming Plants on July 21, 2017
- Blue Flag Iris
- Pussytoes
- Mule Ears
- Shooting Stars
- Sulphur Buckwheat
- Sticky Cinquefoil
- Slender Cinquefoil
- Bruneau Mariposa Tulip/Calochortus bruneaunis
- Snowberry
- Bridge’s Penstemon
- Yarrow
- an unidentified yellow composite (sunflower type)
- Whorled Penstemon
- Horsemint
- Wild Onion/ Allium sp.
- Paintbrush
- Wallflower
- Bitterbrush
- Cow Parsnip
- Fireweed
- a purple Penstemon
- Scarlet Gilia
- Bistort
- Goldenrod
- Seep Spring Monkeyflower
- 2 blue Lupines
- a white Lupine
- Pussypaws
- Pennyroyal
- Creek Dogwood
- Ranger’s Buttons
- Blue Elderberry
- Prickly Poppy
- Creambush
- Naked Buckwheat
- Coneflower
- White Stream Orchid
some id’s were strictly drivebys
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