RHH's photos with the keyword: lupine

When we were in Big Bend National Park earlier in the year we were too early for most of the wildflowers, but missed the busiest time in the park and missed the current health crisis. Some of the wildflowers we wanted to see were the Bluebonnets, a Lupine for which Texas and Big Bend are famous. We did not however see any of them blooming in the park. There were photographed near the two of study Butte where we spent our second night. We had supper at a very nice Mexican restaurant and then parked our car on some empty land nearby before driving back into the park the next day. The town of Study Butte is west of the park and we intended to explore the west side of the park the next day.

The Bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas. The variety that grows in the Big Bend area is taller than other varieties and is the variety shown here. We looked for it in the park but did not see it there. These were photographed just outside the park to the west near the town of Study Butte.

These Big Bend Bluebonnets were photographed along the road near the town of Study Butte, Texas. They were the only Bluebonnets we found in flower while visiting Big Bend National Park.

These orchids, White Bog Orchids, were photographed in a field of wildflowers in Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park. The wildflowers in the background include lupines, buckwheat, geraniums, daisies and other wildflowers.

Because Crater Lake is at such a high elevation the wildflowers were just starting to bloom when we were there the middle of June. These Lupine were photographed along the road as we left the park and headed for the Oregon Lava Lands. I am not at all certain of the identification but am posting them as Silvery Lupine, Lupinus argenteus.

I find the many Lupine species of Washington difficult to identify, but believe this to be the Elegant Lupine, Lupinus lepidus var. lepidus. It was photographed along the Old Blewett Road on the east side of the Cascades where it puts on quite a show early in the summer (see insets).

When we traveled through Blewett Pass on our Washington-Oregon-California trip recently, we found the wildflowers putting on a great show as they often do there, especially the Lupines, these, we believe, the Elegant Lupines, Lupinus lepidus var. lepidus.

Among the Lupines we photographed in Blewett Pass along the Old Blewett Road, there were a number of plants with nearly white flowers, but they appear to me to be the Elegant Lupine, Lupinus lepidus var. lepidus.

When I was out orchid-hunting the middle of May it was very wet and rainy on the east side of the mountains and I was rained out at one of the sites I visited. Traveling across the mountains and headed for western Washington, I stopped to photograph some wildflowers and discovered a fairyland of water drops, in this case on the flowers of a Velvet Lupine.

Spring is colorful time in eastern Washington. The hills, other wise dry and brown, are covered with flowers, in this case with Balsamroot and Lupine. Balsamroot especially grows in such abundance that hills appear to have a cheerful yellow covering. This photo was taken near where Highway 97 crosses the Columbia River into Oregon. We turned off the highway there for some pictures of spring color.

This was taken along the Nisqually Vista trail at Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park. The blue flowers are Lupines and the white flowers in the background a mix of Bistort and Valerian. The wildflower meadows at Paradise are incredible.

I took this picture to show the dwarf form of the Alaskan Piperia (Piperia unalascensis fma. olympica) - the light green flower spikes - in its habitat on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. I am not entirely happy with the picture for obvious reasons. The other wildflowers in the picture are some I've posted recently, the bluish-purple a Lupine, probably the Subalpine Lupine, the red-orange the Harsh Paintbrush, the white cylindrical heads of flowers the Western Bistort with a dwarf Columbia Lily in the upper left of the picture.

Photographed on the beach near Port Townsend, Washington, in Fort Worden State Park.

Photographed on the beach near Port Townsend, Washington, in Fort Worden State Park.

Photographed on the Lake Ann trail.