RHH's photos with the keyword: clarkia

We were excited to find this wildflower on our Oregon-California trip in June. We saw it then in Brooks Memorial State Park in southern Washington. Back home again we found it growing by the hundreds in our own back yard, really in the fields around our home. Nonetheless it is a beautiful wildflower and well-named. I'm nearly finished posting photos from our trip, but decided for a change of pace to post these wildflowers instead, all photographed near our home. In fact, I kept a record of the wildflowers we found this spring and summer, and even with some gaps listed nearly a hundred different flowers including one orchid.

We found these in Brooks Memorial State Park and were excited about finding them. A week later we found them growing in the fields near our home.

Farewell-to-Spring is the name of the flower, not my goodbye to a season now long past. The botanical name for the flower is Clarkia amoena or Godetia amoena, and it was photographed last spring at Dog Mountain near the Columbia River. The bee or wasp is unknown to me, though I wouldn't mind having an ID.