Another beautiful visit to Mineral King revealed many new-to-me flowers. Oy vey, a second Mineral King wildflower book will have to be published, maybe this one subtitled “Mostly overlooked boring and tiny flowers”.
Here is a peek, with my most elegant tapered and manicured finger for size:
I also found some other unknowns:
The new yellow one I showed you last week may be called Spring Gold:
For those of you don’t care about obscure and tiny unknown wildflowers but hung on to the end of this post, we went to White Chief, which has been relocated. It is no longer the short hike that I remember, although it remains just as steep. Someone moved that canyon up a couple of miles farther than last summer. Who would do that??
From the top down: Spring Creek; The Farmer and Trail Guy in White Chief; Off -Trail Guy in White Chief; the Honeymoon Cabin as seen from above rather than the normal view.
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Yay for Mineral King season again! May we never take for granted a full summer season again (think 2020)!
I miss many wildflowers because my MK time is normally end of July / beginning of August. Some day I would like to help Kathy open the cabin so I can see the wildflowers I never see, plus my Grandmother’s beloved daffodils she planted decades ago, and insist on resurrecting every May.
Yeah, it’s funny how those trails get longer and steeper as one gets older! But at some point, the lakes and trails disappear forever. 🙁
Sharon, I recommend early July for the best flowers.
It looks like I’ll just miss it by a couple of weeks this year, but I shall keep that in mind for 2022!
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