This is one of the most beautiful things about the desert landscape that surrounds us here in Eastern Washington, desert wildflowers!
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Carey’s Balsamroot (click to enlarge)
Carey’s Balsamroot on Red Mountain
Rosy Balsamroot
Piper’s Daisy (Fleabane) (click to enlarge)
Larkspur (delphinium) (click to enlarge)
Brodiaea (click to enlarge)
Phlox (click to enlarge)
Lupine
Lupine
Green Rabbitbrush, Chrysothamnus viscidifloris(8)
Yarrow (9)
Colorful Thistle
Fiddleneck Tarweed Seeded Out for the Summer
Green Rabbitbrush (12)
Fiddleneck Tarweed (click to enlarge)
Fiddleneck Tarweed on the Hanford Reach National Monument
Rosy Balsamroot (click to enlarge)
Purse’s Milk Vetch (click to enlarge)
Purse’s Milk Vetch on Red Mountain, Astralagus Purshii
Columbia Milk Vetch, Astragalus Succumbens
Piper’s Daisy, Fleabane
Mariposa Lilly
Roundheaded desert buckwheat, Eriogonum
Slender Hawksbeard
Douglas Brodiaea (Triteleia grandiflora)
Prickly Russian Thistle, Salsosa tragus
Blazing Star, Mentzelia laevicaulis (16)
Mariposa Lilly or Chalochortus
Chalochortus on Badger Mountain
Daisy, Erigeron
Purple Sage, Salvia dorrii (18)
False Yarrow
Desert Globemallow, Sphaeralcea munroana
Erigeron piperianus, Piper’s Daisy
Bigseed biscuitroot
Allium robinsonii, Robinson’s onion
Robinsons Onion in bloom
Fritillaria pudica, Yellowbell
Beautiful Yellow Bells among the spring wildflowers on the Hanford Reach National Monument
Yellow Bells on the Hanford Reach National Monument
Purple Sage flowering on Badger Mountain
Yellow Piper’s Daisies on Badger Mountain
Evening Primrose In the desert sand on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Low Pussytoes (Antenneria dimorpha)
Spring Whitlowgrass (Draba verna) One of the earliest blooms in the spring