Eastern Washington Wildflowers

Also known as Linum perenne var. lewisii, this is the western version of Perennial Flax, a fairly common garden flower. We photographed this example in Colville National Forest while hiking there.

A California Poppy photographed at Catherine Creek Natural Area near the Columbia River.

This is tiny little flower, as most violets are. Photographed at Bonaparte Lake in north-central Washington, this is Viola macloskeyi.

These, if I am not mistaken, are the Few-flowered Shooting Stars, Dodecatheon pulchellum, photographed at Catherine Creek in the Columbia River Gorge.

These are photos of a few of the wildflowers we found at Catherine Creek Natural Area. The area is along the Columbia River and we visited there before following the Columbia further west and crossing into Oregon.

Lewisiopsis tweedyi, formerly Lewisia tweedyi, is one of Washington's most beautiful and rarest wildflowers. It grows in rocky areas in a small area around Leavenworth on the east side of the Cascades. It has flowers in soft pinks and yellows that are up to three inches across and each plant is covered with flowers during its blooming season. I had to go a long way up Derby Canyon this past spring to find it in flower and nearly fell down the steep rocky slope on which they were growing when trying to take photos.

Lewisiopsis tweedyi, formerly Lewisia tweedyi, is one of Washington's most beautiful and rarest wildflowers. It grows in rocky areas in a small area around Leavenworth on the east side of the Cascades. It has flowers in soft pinks and yellows that are up to three inches across and each plant is covered with flowers during its blooming season. I had to go a long way up Derby Canyon this past spring to find it in flower and nearly fell down the steep rocky slope on which they were growing when trying to take photos.

Lewisiopsis tweedyi, formerly Lewisia tweedyi, is one of Washington's most beautiful and rarest wildflowers. It grows in rocky areas in a small area around Leavenworth on the east side of the Cascades. It has flowers in soft pinks and yellows that are up to three inches across and each plant is covered with flowers during its blooming season. I had to go a long way up Derby Canyon this past spring to find it and nearly fell down the steep rocky slope on which they were growing when trying to take photos. On another note, my presence on Ipernity will be sporadic over the next few weeks since we will be traveling cross-country to Michigan to visit family, a journey of some 2000 miles. We'll be stopping at some of the national parks along the way and visiting friends as well and will not actually be in Michigan until the end of this week or the beginning of next week. I'll get on as opportunity presents itself, but opportunity will be especially rare in the national parks and we'll be busy with other things in any case.

These small wildflowers are appropriately named and are one of the flowers we always look for in the spring. They gloom just after the Sagebrush Buttercups, always the first wildflowers.