Still fairly early in the season running into snow at about 6000’ but some things are in bloom or just beginning primarily on the first part of the trail. In bloom: California Jacob’s ladder (<I>Polemonium californicum</I>), purple virgin’s bower (<I>Clematis occidentalis</I> var. <I> grosseserrata</I>), Piper’s anemone (<I>Anemone piperi</I>), sticky currant (<I>Ribes viscosissimum</I>), swampy gooseberry (<I>Ribes lacustre</I>), western red baneberry (<I>Actaea rubra</I>), yellow- and blue-flowered violets (<I>Viola</I> spp.), Sitka valerian (<I>Valeriana sitchensis</I>), fairy slipper (<I>Calypso bulbosa</I> var. <I>occidentalis</I>), wood’s strawberry (<I>Fragaria vesca</I>), wild strawberry (<I>Fragaria virginiana</I>), ballhead waterleaf (<I>Hydrophyllum capitatum</I>), grouseberry (<I>Vaccinium scoparium</I>), western sweet-cicely (<I>Osmorhiza occidentalis</I>), and roughfruit fairy bells (<I>Prosartes trachycarpa</I>).</P>
Still not in bloom but very close: false soloman’s-seal (<I>Maianthemum racemosum</I>), meadowrue (<I>Thalictrum</I>sp.), and star-flowered soloman’s seal (<I>Maianthemum stellatum</I>). Also, saw basal leaves for larkspur (<I>Delphinium</I> sp.) and yellow columbine (<I>Aquilegia flavescens</I>).
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