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Northrup Canyon. Searching for Bitterroot (Lewisia) wildflowers. Found the Taylor’s Checkerspot butterfly (Federally Endangered).

The Northrup Canyon trail, which is part of Steamboat Rock State Park, climbs into the canyon which contains the only forest in Grant County, Washington. We saw many wildflowers, and lodgepole and ponderosa pines, as well as aspen and willow near the moister ground of Northrup Creek.

We were searching for the Bitterroot (lewisia rediviva ) wildflowers and found them on a high rocky ridge! The species Rediviva refers to its ability to regenerate from dry and seemingly dead roots.

This ephemeral perennial plant grows on well-drained gravelly soils in dry shrublands, often dominated by sagebrush, but also in piñon-juniper woodlands, oak woods, and ponderosa pine or Douglas-fir forests. It can be found at elevations from 2,500 feet in California to over 10,000 feet in Utah. Early in spring, the succulent, fingerlike leaves elongate. Later, normally after the leaves have withered, deep pink to rose (or sometimes white) flowers emerge to present a striking sight: beautiful wildflowers scattered across what otherwise may appear to be bare gravel, as if they had been dropped on the ground. The flowers are up to 2 inches across.
Kratz, Andrew. “Plant of the Week, Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva),” https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pla...

The species was named rediviva from the Latin word meaning “reviving from a dry state” referring to the ability of the plant to grow again after having been dug up, dried whole, and stored for months, which the specimen presented to Pursh in fact did, much to the amazement of those at The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia!
Kratz, Andrew. “Plant of the Week, Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva),” https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pla...

Wildflowers noted: Rock penstemon, Bitterroot (Lewisia), Prairie smoke, Western Groundsel, Lowly Penstemon, Piper’s daisy, Swale desert parsley, Poker Heuchera, Columbia Puccoon, Thompson’s Paintbrush, Arrowleaf Balsamroot

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