That last Calochortas picture is absolutely FABULOUS!
Shirley Meneice
Mary Sue Ittner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still working on all the pictures I took during the week we toured
> mostly the central part of California looking for flowers in April. We
> knew we had missed the wonderful displays in the desert, but we went
> to other areas where there were still some spectacular flowers and I
> saw a lot of bulbs. It's going to take some time for me to get them
> all on the wiki, but I made an attempt to add pictures taken along the
> Hite's Cove Trail which climbs above the south fork of the Merced
> River off Highway 140 before you get to Yosemite. We arrived late
> afternoon and spent about three hours hiking the trail and looking at
> the gorgeous flowers. There were masses of a small annual orange
> California poppy, Eschscholzia caespitosa, a pretty blue and white
> Lupine, Lupinus bicolor, and lots and lots of Owl's Clover, Castillja
> exserta. We saw the latter almost every day on our trip. There were
> many other wonderful flowers like Chinese houses (Collinsia
> heterophylla), Fiesta Flower (Pholistoma auritum), Indian Paintbrush
> (Castilleja applegatei), Indian Pink (Silene californica), Mustang
> Clover (Linanthus montanus), and an orange Dudleya, Dudleya cymosa.
> But these plants are off topic as our forum is about bulbs and there
> were were three that were evident all along the trail. We also saw
> some Calochortus venustus over the side of the cliff toward the river,
> but none of us were brave enough to try to get close enough to
> photograph it.
>
> Dichelostemma volubile was climbing through trees, shrubs, poison oak,
> all over annuals, and even twining around itself. The most bizarre was
> seeing it on a rock ledge with the Dudleya. We wondered if it had help
> getting there, but couldn't really tell. Somehow growing this one in a
> container just doesn't do justice to how it is in the wild.
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
>
> Triteleia ixioides ssp. scabra we had seen it earlier in Kern County
> growing in grass, a pale yellow form which I also added pictures of to
> the wiki so people could see a common habitat. Along the Hite's Cove
> Trail it was growing with Chinese Houses and in many other delightful
> combinations and some of the plants had purple stripes on the flowers.
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
>
> Finally everywhere was Calochortus albus which is one of my favorite
> Calochortus. I was having a lot of trouble getting my digital camera
> to focus on the flowers and not something else so took a lot of
> pictures I deleted. The ones I added were the best of the lot
> including one that shows how lovely the Collinsia was.
> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
>
> I hope you all enjoy seeing some of California's treasures in the
> wild. I'll be adding more as I have time.
>
> Mary Sue
>
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