The hanging meadows look beautiful right, covered by Rosy Plectritis and Monkeyflower. Please see Cameron Brown`s photos in the Facebook group.
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The following wildflowers are blooming along the first forested section of the trail: twinflower, inside-out flower, starflower, woods rose, thimbleberry, salal, woods strawberry, mountain arnica, windflower, candyflower, trailing blackberry. Tiger lily is in bud and should bloom in the near future.
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Blooming near the Native American burial pits: Nine-leaf desert parsley, rough wallflower, heart-leaf buckwheat, coast penstemon, and profuse broadleaf stonecrop (plus Orobanche) at the south end just before the trail re-enters the trees.
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Blooming along the steep switchbacks: vanillaleaf, inside-out flower, windflower, lots more arnica, spotted coralroot, arrowleaf agoseris, broadleaf stonecrop, starflower, some paintbrush, fringe cup, ookow starting, crevice alumroot, more woods roses, spring beauty, valerian, field chickweed.
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Blooming in the meadows: <b>profuse</b> amounts of monkeyflower, rosy plectritis, and bigroot, along with penstemon, nine-leaf desert parsley, paintbrush, large-flowered blue-eyed Mary, Oregon sunshine, arrowleaf groundsel, smooth woodland star, larkspur, buckwheat starting, and lots of tapertip onion (Allium acuminatum) about to open.
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