Oregon and California Wildflowers

These were photographed along the road as we drove to the trailhead for Wall Street Mill. The mill is an old gold mining millin Joshua Tree National Park.

These are the flowers of Desert Bluebell, not a Bluebell at all but a Phacelia. They were photographed along the trail to the Wall Street Mill, and old gold mining mill in Joshua Tree National Park.

This and the insets are a few more of the wildflowers we saw while hiking to an old gold mining mill, Wall Street Mill, in Joshua Tree National Park.

I'm posting a few more wildflowers from Joshua Tree National Park today, this a plant called Chia, Salvia columbariae, photographed along the trail to Wall Street Mill, an old gold mining mill.

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as 1000 a year.

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as 1000 a year.

These last photos from Joshua Tree National Park are of the flowers of the Sacred Datura, an hallucinogenic but very dangerous plant. Also known as thorn apple, moon lily, moon flower, Indian apple, angel's trumpet, devil's trumpet, tolguacha, locoweed and Jimson weed. Especially its seeds and roots have been used by native tribes as an anesthetic and in religious ceremonies but numerous death have been reported and emergency room incidents are reported as high as thousand a year. I've added this to the group for Pam since she sent me seeds of a related species, Datura inoxia, that are planted and growing (I have no intention of testing its hallucinogenic properties).

Photographed in Jedediah Smith State Park along the Simpson-Reed Grove Trail, this is one of the few wildflowers we saw among the Redwoods. It is the Stoutleaf Iris, Iris tenax.

If I have this identified correctly, it is a rather rare wildflower found only in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. I stand to be corrected, however on the ID. The botanical name for the species is Sidlacea hendersonii and it is found in wetlands and coastal areas. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/07/oregon-coast.html