One of the most beautiful pollinators bites the dust- One of the fun things I remember from childhood is capturing the black, yellow and white monarch butterfly caterpillars. They were […]
Low larkspur (Delphinium bicolor)
Larkspur Strikes Again !!! Kinda’ puts the whole “Canadian wolves are a threat to our ‘livelihood’” argument into perspective: 30 cows die in S. Idaho after eating larkspur – Idaho […]
Investigation Launched Into Grizzly Bear Mauling of Botanist Outside Yellowstone National Park
This story gives more info on the dead botanist Erwin Frank Evert- Story from National Parks Traveler. By Kurt Repanshek Evert recently wrote Vascular Plants of the Greater Yellowstone Area. […]
Big-head clover (Trifolium macrocephalum) II
It’s that season (again) ! Bighead clover in Artemisia rigida sites (click for larger picture).
Yellowbells (Fritillaria pudica)
Fritillaria pudica are among the first flowers to bloom in sagebrush country following the receding snow. Indigenous peoples used to eat their starchy bulbs. They’re blooming now ~ this photo […]
Stalk-leaved Monkeyflower (Mimulus patulus)
Mimulus patulus Occurence & Habitat Springs and seeps are unique habitats that occur where subterranean water emerges from an aquifer. In the semi-arid and arid west, these unique sources of water are […]