Tony Grove in Logan Canyon, Utah (August 1999)

A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS
OF WASATCH FRONT WILDFLOWERS


The photographs on the following pages are of Utah wildflowers taken recently with a digital camera by Mort and Carolyn Somer.  We provide them to augment the information on the Wasatch Audubon Society web-site.  Like most wildflowers, the blooming season for these flowers is short.  The date and location of the photographs will give you some idea of when and where to look for the flowers.  We hope these photos increase your appreciation for some of the often unnoticed treasures found along the Western Wasatch Mountains. 

The web pages are identified by location and date.  Additional pages will be added as pictures are available.  The pages to date are: 

Logan Area (4/29/00)featuring: 
Mountain Bluebells
Wild Carrot
Maguire's Primrose
Starry Solomon Seal
Fairy Bells
Gray's Lomatium
Rock Cress?
Golden Currant
North Ogden (5/01/00)featuring:
Common Blue Camas
Pink Lady Slipper
Popcorn (Borage)
Foothill Death Camas
Hoods Phlox
Evening Primrose
Kay's Creek (5/05/00)featuring: 
Woolly Butterweed
Wild Sweet Pea
Waterleaf
Quail Plant
Arrowleaf Balsamroot 
Oregon Grape
Miner's Lettuce
False Solomon Seal
Pineview (5/08/00)featuring: 
Comb Draba
Twin Berry
Cutleaf Balsamroot
Mountain Thermopsis
Wintercress
Antelope Island (5/10/00) featuring:
Globe Mallow
Blue Mustard
Sand Verbena
Butter and Eggs
Hound's Tongue
Yellow Cryptantha
Willard Bay (5/12/00) featuring:
Salsify
Black Currant ?
Onion
Swanson Environmental Center I
(5/15/00) featuring:
Brandegee Onion
Fritillaria
Shortstyle Bluebell
Stickseed
Low Larkspur
Glacier Lily
Swanson Environmental Center II
(5/15/00) featuring:
Yellow Mountain Violet
Spring Beauty
Nuttall's Violet
Woodland Star
Mountain Road Nature Center
(5/27/00) featuring:
Sego Lily
Elderberry
Sulfur Buckwheat
Wood Rose
Dogbane
Purple Salsify
North Ogden Pass
(5/31/00) featuring: 
Low Penstemon
Scarlet Gilia
?
Twinpod
Labrador Tea
Sarviceberry
North Ogden Bench
(6/02/00) featuring:
Blazing Star
Rushpink
Golden Aster
Taylor's Canyon
(6/05/00) featuring:
Spreading Dogbane
A Spotted Beauty
Ninebark
Alum Root
Hawksbeard
Butterweed
East Mountain Park
(6/07/00) featuring:
Milkweed
Prickly Pear
Cinquefoil
Flannel Mullein
Showy Milkweed
Sticky Geranium
Indian Trail
(6/19/00) featuring:
Collomia
Clover
Stonecrop
?
Crazyweed
Spirea
Monte Cristo Area
(6/24/00) featuring:
Douglas Pinchusion
Checkermallow
Mule Ears
Yarrow
Bistort
Flax
Horse Mint
Hackelia
Owl Beak
WSU Bench
(6/26/00) featuring:
Largeleaf Avens
Deadnettle
Wild Hollyhock
St. John's Wort
Columbine
Fireweed
Lupine
Goldenrod
 
North Arm
(6/30/00) featuring:
Bladder Campion
Oxeye Daisy
Cow Parsnip
Catnip
Evening Primrose
Chamomile
Fringed Loosestrife
Monkey Flower
?
Nightshade
Powder Mountain
(7/3/00) featuring:
Leafy Aster
Paintbrush
Blue Penstemon
Mountain Butterweed
Little Sunflower
?
Thumbnail indexes to the pictures are now available.  Because of the number of photos, the thumbnails are divided into four pages based on color and alphabetized by common name: 
 
 
Yellow Flower Thumbnails 
Blue Flower Thumbnails 
(purple and blue flowers)
Red Flower Thumbnails 
(red, pink, and orange flowers)
White Flower Thumbnails

Now Showing at Antelope Island

Early Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja chromosa) 
See what else we saw April 21, 2001
at Antelope Island


The flower identifications are made with the help of the following publications:

Anderson, Berniece A. and Holmgren, Arthur H., Mountain Plants of Northeastern Utah, Utah State University Extension Services, Circular 319, Logan, Utah, 1985.

Shaw, Richard J., Utah Wildflowers, A Field Guide to Northern and Central Mountains and Valleys, Utah State University Press, Logan, Utah 1995.

Spellenberg, Richard, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Western Region, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1994.

Whitson, Tom D. (ed.), Weeds of the West, The Western Society of Weed Science, Newark, CA  1990.

Some identifications are incomplete.  If you can help with those or other  identifications, please e-mail me at the address below.

This Web-site is maintained by  Carolyn Somer. 
Contact the Webmaster via email: csomer@att.net

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