We hiked from Lac le Jeune over to the Ross Moore Lake Road, up onto the Stake Lake Trails, and then onto an unsigned single track to the top of the hill to get to the Lac le Jeune Lookout.    We hiked east from there and looped back on trails to the campground/beach area on Lac le Jeune.    We were primarily a hiking group, but I stopped to take a few wildflower photos along the way, a few of which are shared here.

In this gallery are lance-leaved stonecrop (Sedum lanceolatum), hounds-tooth (Cynoglossum officinale), dwarf sunflower (Helianthella uniflora), rosy pussytoes (Antennaria rosea), long-stalked starwort (Stellaria longipes), star-flowered false solomons-seal (Smilacina stellata) and hillside arnica (Arnica fulgens).

dwarf sunflowers

rosy pussytoes

star-flowered false solomons-seal

starwort

stonecrop

hounds-tongue

stonecrop

dwarf sunflowers

Some Incidental Notes:

• The stonecrop has a reddish tinge when it first starts the flowering process, before the inflorescence becomes primarily yellow.   
• Hounds tooth is a noxious weed.   It is sometimes called stickseed.  
• There are 190 different species of starworts.  
• Bunches of red pussytoes are clonal groundcovers, connected by rhizomes.  
• Solomon’s-seal berries have questionable edibility.    They have been eaten in the past, but there is some evidence that we should be cautious about consuming them.