Gorgeous day. Pretty flowers. Rushing river. You know, the usual.
New twitches: Columbia puccoon, western sweet cicely, tall silver crown (an easily ID'd yellow aster - woot!), scouler's popcorn flower
Foiled twitches: a larkspur (not Menzies) that was pretty clearly not in our field guide - grr; a pretty purple pea that very likely was in the field guide but too late in the day to have the patience for
Serpentine specials: panicled zigadene (foothill death camas), elegant cat's ear (a completely charming mariposa lily), big-leaf sandwort, blue-eyed mary, slender woodland star
Bushes: saskatoon, choke cherry, bitter cherry, ceanothus, oregon boxwood, red flowering currant
Old reliables: paintbrushes, yarrow, lupines, oregon grape, false solomon's seal, vanilla leaf, miner's lettuce
Also: arrow leaf balsamroot, sticky cinquefoil, silverleaf phacelia, ballhead phacelia, hooker's fairybells
Infrequent: meadow rue, trillium, fairyslipper orchid (we were moving at the speed of botany, and didn't make it as far as the usual sun-lit patch of mountain lady-slipper)
Not in flower yet: fireweed, kinnikinnick, thimble berry, philadelphus lewisii, spreading dogbane, a stonecrop (lanceleaf?), likely streambank arnica, possible white hyacinth (fool's onion)
No longer in flower: lots of lilies with seed heads (probably glacier lilies)
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