MT Mountain Wildflowers

September 19, 2024 A.L.H. Hughes

This post is mostly just going to be pretty pictures. This summer, we went on an overnight backpacking trip with my dad in the Bitterroot mountains in Montana, on the trail up toward Glen Lake. My dad remembered the trail as very forested, but since he’d been there last, wildfire had gone through and taken out nearly all the trees. So, instead of a shady forest, we had a very sunny trip, with lots and lots of wildflowers.

looking out at mountain sides of burned trees with some unburned swaths in the distance — Bitterroot some years after fire – the old trees stand guard over the new baby forest.

clump of yellow flowers amidst a burned forest — fire = sunshine = flowers

clump of white-poof-flowering beargrass in a burned forest — Beargrass was the most abundant. I’ve never seen so much blooming in one place before as I saw on this trip.

red indian paintbrush growing up beside a burned log — Indian paintbrush – no MT hillside is complete without it.

clump of very blue/purple flowers — These pretty blues were also everywhere.

half-blooming poofy white beargrass flowers — The half-blooming beargrass reminded me of flying saucers.

yellow flowers growing beneath burned logs — Flowers everywhere. Burned areas mean renewal.

mix of burned logs, and white and yellow flowers — Lots more flowers than I know the names of.

burned log shrouded in white-flowering shrub at the base of a burned-forested hill — A wreathing of beauty.

luxuriant sunlit grasses interspersed with yellow flowers — Beargrass looking beautiful with somebody else’s flowers.

sunlit grasses with poof flowers beside a burned log — Grasses and puff-balls capturing the sunlight.

little bunch of pale-purple flowers — Some flowers are adorable.

mingling of pale-leaved white flowers with needle-leaved pink flowers, all very upright — Some flowers are elegance in the wild.

low clumps of pale fluffy flowers — Creeping phlox by the lakeshore

burned trees and sky reflected in the clear water with mountains in the distance — Above Glen Lake, communing with the sky.

green trees reflected in the clear water — And the secrets of the waters.

clump of yellow buttercups — The happiness of buttercups.

backlit delicate yellow lily-like flowers — And subtle yellow lilies.

thick close-up of purple shooting-star flowers — And carpets of shooting stars.

buttercups growing at the edge of a puddle and reflected against the sky — A very pretty pooling eddy.

sun-dappled meadow full of purple flowers — A long glen of flowers.

yellow daisies growing around a burned log — More happy yellow.

sunlit leaves and pale-pink bell flowers — Huckleberry flowers – before the berries are begun.

little clump of spindly white flowers — Elegant and white in the twilight.

backlit forest carpeted with pink-flowering shrub — A carpet of purple above the hillside.

closeup of backlit pink flower bells — Lit by the setting sun.

closeup of pink flower stalks — Snazzy and pink in full sun.

poofy pink shrub on sunny hillside — Parts of the mountain were covered in these pink bushels.

burned out forest interspersed with clumps of white-flowering beargrass — Beargrass near and in the distance.

pink and white flowers in the sun — A happy cacophony of flowers.

white-stalk flowers amid trees — A fairy glen of white flowers.

beargrass flowers in front of a mountain view — Beargrass showing off Big Sky country.

daisies growing through an old ladder — Back at the house – more flowers for sunny days.

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