RHH's photos with the keyword: rose paintbrush

On our recent backpacking trip in the Colorado Rockies the wildflowers were wonderful though not as good as the year before. This is Castilleja rhexifolia, Rose Paintbrush.

These wildflowers are from last year's backpacking trip in the Colorado Rockies. We will be going again this year with our grandsons.

I hiked and backpacked in the Colorado Rockies with two of my brothers last summer and we have another hike planned for this summer with one of my brothers and two of our grandsons. The hike last summer was one of the best wildflower hikes I have ever been on though wildflowers were not the main interest. Among the many wildflowers we saw were an endless number of Indian Paintbrush and more different colors than we could count. I've posted four different colors here but there were many more. They were not all the same species and I am not sure they are all correctly identified since they are notoriously difficult.