I'm trying to add captions to my photo album for our early August Upper Kern basin trip. It was almost all above 10,000 ft elevation but there was water everywhere so the wild flowers were out in profusion!
Usually I just describe my flower pictures as things like "a pretty blue flower by a stream", but this time I'd like to try to actually identify them. I've been able to do that for some of these, but I'm no botanist! For example, the first one was very common, and I think it's a lily, but I can't find the identification for it....but I'm sure it is easily known for anyone who knows their high altitude flowers!
I'm going to post quite a few pictures which I figure you won't mind seeing anyway, but if you know what any of these are, I'd love to know also....
#1 This was all over the place at somewhat lower elevations, usually by water. Some kind of lily????
#2 and 3 These were by the Onion Valley Trailhead
#4 In a dry, rocky area heading up towards lake South America - I'd call it a succulent
#5 I saw a picture of these....somewhere, I wish I could remember where! There were on the way down to Lake South America, after the pass.
#6 In the Upper Kern River basin, down by the lakes where we camped.
#7 On the trail heading back from the Upper Kern to Tyndall Creek
#8 This has got to be a daisy, right? Ok, with a pretty butterfly.
#9 On the hot, dry, rocky trail heading from Upper Kern/Lake South America down to Tyndall Creek. Whatever this plant is, it leads a hard life. It looked like it got very little water and had barely any soil...like a high desert plant
#10 and 11 At the top of Shepherd Pass, nestled in a sheltered rock crevices
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#12 Below Anvil Camp heading down in a hot dry area
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#13 A paper plant? That's what I'd call it anyway....
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If you know any of these, please let me know what they are... If you know a good site for IDing them I'd love that also. I found a few sites but not one that clued me in on these flowers well enough....but that's probably due to user lack of knowledge.
I was scouring the web trying to find these, but for someone who doesn't even know where to begin, it was tough! 
