yellowstone
a nature paradise

Mammals, birds
and flowers

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Plants and flowers


Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons present us with a multitude of colourful flowers. It must be marvelous to walk here when all kinds of plants greet spring with their yellow, blue, white and red flowers.

Flowers...

A few typical Yellowstone flowers

Arnica

Arnica plants Arnica flower Arnica
The flower that welcomed us the most during our stay in early June certainly was Arnica. Without having looked it up in a plant guide, I suppose it is Heartleaf Arnica (Arnica cordifolia), but at least 6 other species of Leopardbane can be found around here (1).

Flowery phlox

Bed of Phloxes Flowery Phlox Phloxes more Phlox
Another typical plant is the Flowery Phlox (Phlox multiflora) with a lot of white flowers.
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Sulfur lovers

sulfur lover sulfur lover these pinkies may not be sulfur lovers, but they still live close by Norton's geysers or don't mind the hot, sulfuric water streaming down into the Firehole River near Prismatic spring near Prismatic spring
Some plants clearly love the presence of heat and sulfur (and other geyser minerals), or don't mind too much the hot water that streams down from the hotsprings into the river.

Desert pinkie

kind of a desert star interesting carpels... desert star desert star group a kind of desert aster
Others look more like desert plants, with big pink flowers, or beautiful purple with a yellow heart like this dwarf aster-like plants.
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Our first day in Yellowstone...

a tiny cuckoo flower bear strong restrooms bear strong restrooms Yarrow carnation

Flowers on our visit to Lamar valley

purple yellow shrub at Tower Fall brassica myosotis composite mysosotis whites whites larkspur larkspur rose-like Phloxes strange one pink heads blue Dandelion seed heads yellow a desert aster a yarrow-like species
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Flowers on the Beaver Pond trail

comfrey-like plant rose-like flower yellow bubbles field of Arnica columbine inside the columbine a blue Iris a kind of sweet pea
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Some plants we found on Jenny's trail

white flower... larkspur more spurred blue flowers
white flower... larkspur the nice blue in close-up pinkies Taraxacum or dandelion type plant azalea-like flowers not a plant any more, but a fungus a shrub with delicate white flowers yellow violet-like flower shrub with pink flowers cranberry-like plant yellow flowers apparently another species of Arnica white flowers
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Flowers in the Laurance Rockefeller Preserve

blue lupines blue lupines delicate heads delicate heads in close-up abundance white stars green flowers pinkies a Geranium-like flower Arnica yellow balls yellow balls columbine columbine white twins a shrub hanging over the creek a shrub with pink twins small Arnicas a pinkie with its leave discrete little heads a Geranium-like flower small yellow bulbs an extravagant bluish one a tuft of moss, or is it lichen ? pink flowers more pink flowers this one reminds of Solomon's seal... possibly a meadow-rue a pink star a beautiful small yellow violet-like gem a beautiful small yellow violet-like gem larkspur a cinquefoils look-alike larkspur
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(1) A. fulgens, A. longifolia, A. mollis, A. parryi, A. rydbergii, A. sororia - cf. CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference by Timothy Johnson, 1998.