Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Tahoe's Wildflowers


Mari's 1st blog:

I was in Tahoe and I saw a bunch of beautiful flowers. They were wild-flowers! I was walking around Spooner Lake and we counted all the different kinds that we saw. There were red, pink, yellow, green and purple flowers. The petals were pretty small, like smaller than a dime.

I picked one bouquet for my Grandma and one bouquet for Monique. There were about eleven different flowers in my bouquets, and we counted over 37 kinds total. I also found mossy branches. I saw lots of ant holes too. Monique, Kaia & I found 40 ant holes!

Some of the flowers from our hike were:
Applegate's paintbrush
Wild Rose
Snow Plant
Cobweb Thistle
Slender Woodland Star
Western Peony
Sonne's Desert Parsley
Jessica's Stickseed
Porterella
Brewer's Lupine
Monkshood
Showy Polemonium
Wandering Daisy
Alpine Paintbrush
Wooly Mule Ears
Pussypaws