A series of short posts on wildflowers encountered while out hiking.   This hike was a grey day in the hills above Neskonlith Lake.

Raindrops were still beading on petals.   Low, grey light made photography difficult, but what could a better subject than yellow glacier lilies (erythronium grandiflorum)?

Sometimes they are known as yellow avalanche lilies.

The petals curve backwards, but from a certain angle we get the impression of a pinwheel.

We would normally have to hike to the subalpine zones in June to see the yellow glacier lilies blooming, but there is a band of them that bloom in April at the same elevation in the hills above Neskonlith Lake.   Some of the hills are on Indian Reserve (a permit required), some are on grazing leased land, and some are on Crown lands.   Most of these were photographed about 1 km up the McGillivray Lake Road above Neskonlith Lake.

The main flowering period is still a week or 10 days away, so I will return to witness the next wave of wildflowers.

More posts to follow….