Wildflower Walks

Stalks of blue camas have arrived in the Missoula area.
Reader Marvin Soroos and I have seen it in the Pattee Canyon National Recreation Area. Soroos recommends looking along Trail 302.5, about a quarter-mile uphill from where it crosses Crazy Canyon Road. I’ve seen the flowers blooming in a variety of spots along the southside ski [...]

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While arrowleaf balsamroot has been out for a while, a smaller member of the aster family is beginning to bloom on the forest floor – arnica.
Find this plant growing at the Blue Mountain and Pattee Canyon national recreation areas, and on Evaro Hill. Look for the yellow rayflowers atop stems up to 2 feet tall [...]

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I’ve received a few wildflower reports in recent days from people following me on Twitter and in the office.
In the Bitterroot Valley, Twitter user wapiti_waters is seeing pasqueflowers, shooting stars, arrowleaf balsamroot and dogtooth violets.
Twitter user oh2bnMT saw yellowbells and shooting stars on a walk up Mount Jumbo.
And Missoulian sports editor Bob Meseroll reports that [...]

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