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 … Continue reading →
While we were in the Phoenix area we visited the Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, Arizona. It is a large area with almost 100 years of plantings. We wandered through the gardens for a few hours and took many … Continue reading →
I was wandering around the Tranquille area the other week taking a few photos. Now that the snow had largely disappeared from south-facing slopes I was eager to photograph some of the mosses and lichens in the grasslands. Many of … Continue reading →
We hiked from Catalina State Park into the mountains, climbing up the Romero Canyon Trail to Romero Pools and back. Along the way, purple owl clover was blooming. Castilleja exserta is an annual herb that blooms in spring. This hemiparasite … Continue reading →
A Wildflower Journal is not a definitive botanical resource website. In the end it is a blog, based on experiences of hiking, paddling, and exploring in our larger area. After collecting a number of photos from specific places, they are … Continue reading →
Green-tongue liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) is a common, weedy species that is native to BC. You will frequently see it growing in wet areas often on exposed mineral soil. Common habitats include wet forests, streamside habitats as well as heavily disturbed … Continue reading →
As we hiked higher into Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina Range near Tuscon, more varieties of wildflowers were around every canyon in mid-March. All photos taken by the author. Parry’s penstemon is the superstar of March in the desert … Continue reading →
Tumid notchwort (Lophozia ventricosa) is a common leafy liverwort that is common and grows on rock, humus and decayed wood. I usually find it most often on decayed wood in relatively moist and cool forest environments. It is one of … Continue reading →
Sabino Canyon State Park is in the Santa Catalina Range on the northeast side of Tuscon. The mountains rise about 2000m from the desert. Hiking trails typically follow canyons up into the hills. In Sabino Canyon a shuttle brings hikers … Continue reading →
One of the most attractive leafy liverworts is a fairly common species named jagged notchwort (Lophozia incisa). It frequently occurs on decayed logs in sheltered microsites in forests at high elevations or in climatically wetter areas near the coast or … Continue reading →
The Tuscon Range are Sonoran Desert mountains to the west of Tuscon. They are unforested, open, rocky at mid-elevation, populated with saguaro cactus. We drove into Saguoro National Park, then hiked on the King’s Canyon Trail (2500 feet to 3600 … Continue reading →
Candle snuffer mosses are common in the dry grasslands of the Kamloops area. They are often found in early spring in small protected areas often on bare mineral soil out of the wind and somewhat sheltered from the sun. I … Continue reading →
