Natural History Wanderings

Oregon Wildflowers  has a new report for Silver Star Mountain

Bear grass starting to bloom lower elevation, not yet boooming near 4000’. Some lupines and penstemon starting. In full bloom: avalanche/glacier lily, saskatoon, some type of deep violet vetch/pea, yellow violets, kinnikinnik, paintbrush, oregon grape, vanilla leaf, oregon iris, salmonberry, bleeding heart, rhododendron, columbian windflower, nuttall’s toothwort, trillium, oregon anemone, woodland strawberry, hooker’s fairybells, camas, false solomon’s seal, star flowered solomon’s seal, b