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Wildflower Report for Ruckel Creek Trail

Location	Ruckel Creek Trail
Date	04/19/2009
Reporter	Rory Nichols
Comments	Hiked up 1.5 miles short of Benson Plateau when my whining became too much for my friend to bear. We were told there was snow on the plateau. Trail had Nuttall's toothwort (Cardamine nuttallii), western trillium (Trillium ovatum), Columbia kittentails (Synthyris missurica), and others in forested areas. Higher up in the moss-covered rocky outcrops were glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum), blue-eyed mary (Collinsia sp.), prairie-star (Lithophragma sp.), chickweed monkeyflower (Mimulus alsinoides), and checker lily (Fritillaria affinis) in bloom.
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Ruckel Creek Trail

04/19/2009

Hiked up 1.5 miles short of Benson Plateau when my whining became too much for my friend to bear. We were told there was snow on the plateau. Trail had Nuttall's toothwort (Cardamine nuttallii), western trillium (Trillium ovatum), Columbia kittentails (Synthyris missurica), and others in forested areas. Higher up in the moss-covered rocky outcrops were glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum), blue-eyed mary (Collinsia sp.), prairie-star (Lithophragma sp.), chickweed monkeyflower (Mimulus alsinoides), and checker lily (Fritillaria affinis) in bloom.

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