Wildflower Walks

Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium pulcherrimum
Description: Pale blue to lavender tube-shaped flowers with white or yellow at the center and five white stamens extending outward. Grows in clusters on stems up to 12 inches with paired leaflets. Blooms May to June in moist, grassy soils along streams and in open forests. (“Wildflowers of Montana,” by Donald Anthony Schiemann)
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Bitterroots are beginning to bloom in the North Hills, one of the best spots to see them in Missoula.
The Waterworks Hill trailhead, for the ridge just north of downtown, is on the west side of Greenough Drive, about a quarter-mile north of the Interstate 90 overpass. Follow the trail along the fenceline up the hill [...]

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I recently received a couple of wildflower reports from people following me on Twitter.
In the Bitterroot Valley, wapiti_waters says paintbrush is out. oh2bnMT is also seeing these flowers on Mount Jumbo.
I’ve seen my first paintbrush of the season, too, along the southside ski trails at the Pattee Canyon National Recreation Area.
Justin Grigg

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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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