Favoritos de walterfertig

Counted 30ish plants.

First and only flower of any species found in the area.

Shady base of rock outcrop in ponderosa pine forest.

Hummocky edge of flooded meadow. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Shallow beaver pond. Leaves all submerged. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Ruler graduations in mm.

Gymnosteris parvula, southeastern foothills of the Wind River Range, west-southwest of South Pass City near Pine Creek, 42.4548 -108.8720, Fremont County, Wyoming, 10 Jun 2022.

Townsendia spathulata, southeastern foothills of the Wind River Range, west-southwest of South Pass City near Pine Creek, 42.4548 -108.8720, Fremont County, Wyoming, 10 Jun 2022.

Blair trails, Pole Mountain

Yellow/white pheno

Enormous stipules.

Edge of dry alkaline pond with Salicornia rubra.

Ledges and crevices on north-facing granite boulder.

Ponderosa pine woodland. Southwestern Laramie County, Wyoming.

Fen with Salix candida and Salix serissima

Sedge meadow and willow wetland near creek. Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, WY.

Sand Lake Road Fen, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, WY.

Collector number 4165

This was in the middle of a big field of blue L. lewisii, so I am leaning towards this just being a variation of lewisii rather than L. pratense. I am, however, not an expert.

Mullen Fire (burned in 2020)

Leaves whorled, Spikelets are flatwise to the rachis. Flower clusters within the actual spike are flat and overlapping.

Rocky ponderosa pine and shrub slope. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Gravelly sagebrush grassland. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Peaty willow wetland. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Collection #: 2023MCB37

Bank of the Laramie River

Collection #: 2023MCB34

Collection #: 2023MCB29

Crevices on northeast face of granite outcrop. Southern Laramie Range, Albany County, WY.

Yes, I think that's something like Bombus flavifrons on that flower. I submitted that one somewhere else. :)