David, Kate, Gaylene, Linda and I headed up the trail on a lovely clear day. We found that several of the flowers we'd seen two years ago earlier in July were no longer in bloom.
What we did see were LOTS of Alice's fleabane, Scouler's wooly weed, Cobwebby paintbrush, Sulfur buckwheat, Coyote Mint, Creamy stonecrop, Common yarrow, Rosy pussy paws, Lyle's angelica, Bullhead sandwort, Siskiyou rosy owl's clover, Silverleaf phaecelia, Oregon sunshine and Scarlett gilia. We also saw Grand collomia, Dogbane, Great red slender paintbrush (with those green bracts) as well as the Frosted paintbrush, Upland Larkspur, Orange agoseris, Plumed Soloman's seal, Sickletop lousewort (do love that name), Lewis flax, Spreading phlox, Subalpine mariposa lily, Western wallflower. Roundleaf snowberry, Ocean spray and Wax current shrubs were also in bloom.
Sadly, we saw one, just one blooming Giant Fasera aka Monument Plant. But there plenty of young plants around. Here is an excerpt from Fabulous, Fantastic Fraser Facts by Kelly Chadwick: "Until recently this plant was thought to be a biennial, a plant that normally requires two years for its life cycle. Studies by Dr. David Inouye, who has researched the plant for decades, indicate that Frasera speciosa is actually a monocarpic plant, flowering only once in a lifetime of 20-80 years, then dying.Inouye’s research also shows that large numbers of Frasera speciosa flower every 2-4 years, with sporadic yet synchronous flowering."
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Alice's Fleabane_Erigeron alicea
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Giant Frasera or Monument plant_Frasera speciosa
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Great red slender paintbrush_Castellea miniata
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Spreading dogbane_Apocynum androsaemifolium
