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What are the small 5-petaled white flowers? They are all over the foothills in the western. They give the green hills an snowy look.
Them and the fiddlenecks are adding to the colors. The snow from the recent storms help, too!
Miner's lettuce and chickweed are flourishing. No need to buy spinach at the store.
Journey well...
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What are the small 5-petaled white flowers? They are all over the foothills in the western. They give the green hills an snowy look.
I think those are the "forget me nots" - how ironic
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Ok all you flower people  ... This picture was taken on the Lower Owens, south of Pleasant Valley Campgroud... by a chocolate road (or something like that)... Can any of you identify it please? Mom is getting tired of hearing me call it the "Pinecone" flower... lol 
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Chris: Looks like Yerba Mansa, Anemopsis californica, lizard-tail family. According to the Laird Blackwell, Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and Adjoining Mojave Desert and Great Basin: "Yerba mansa spreads by creeping rhizomes, so you will usually find it in large masses in its wet environment along creeks or in marshy fields. It puts on quite a show, for the "flowers" are large and showy -- 5-8 flaring petals under a 1-2" white and yellow cone. But yerba mansa is deceptive: the showy white 'petals' are actually bracts; the true flowers are tiny and crammed into the cone that sits atop those petal-like bracts." -L 
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Thanks sweetheart!!! I still prefer "pinecone" flowers!
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Here's the red bug on Richard's white Forget-me-not: 
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Great photo's. Thanks for posting them.
BTW. Yesterday, I saw Doug at the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach and it just didn't seem right seeing him outside of the mountains.
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Thanks for sharing your fun with us!
I'm having loads of fun with the macro lens.
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Thanks for the photos Richard! Absolutely stunning.
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 My wife snapped a few shots of me crawling around on the ground.  Didn't know that Poppies curled up and went to sleep for the night. (I headed back up to Short Canyon to see if the flowers would look any different in the fading light.) Some more photos: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/gallery/7584334_qMXMJ
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Richard, Poppies will close up during cloudy weather, too. Interestingly, there are other flowers such as four o'clocks that remain closed during the hottest part of the day to conserve moisture, and open late afternoon, instead.
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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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Definitely yerba mansa; Moosetracks is right on. One of my favorites, since it often grows near hot springs, and I do love hot springs!
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More Poppies from another location in the Kern Canyon:  Miners Lettuce mmmm: The Kern Canyon is completely filled with Miners Lettuce! 
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   A couple of photos of my personal favorite and one new one. This was up near the Owens Peak Trailhead. I headed up for OPAW 2. I got photos of another new flower (for me), but they didn't turn out. The rest of the photos: http://piotrowski.smugmug.com/gallery/7776404_JirRj
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Call me Wildflower Hunter. I found another new one yesterday above Short Canyon. (BTW, all the wildflowers on the front side, at the trailhead, appeared to be gone already.) 
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Wow! Keep them coming.
Now if someone could identify them.
And maybe you could say what the actual size of the flower in the picture is.
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Hey Steve, this is addicting. I actually ordered three books! Better yet, maybe we could get Betsy to ID them. I've seen her sketch book, so I know she knows them all.
OK, I'll add a ruler to my pack. :-)
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