Aspen Series, No. 2.
Tag: Flagstaff
Aspen Series, No. 2.
Aspen Series, No. 1.
All photos in this series feature quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) seen along Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Aspen Series, No. 1.
All photos in this series feature quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) seen along Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Gray hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) on scarlet bugler penstemon (Penstemon barbatus). On Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Gray hairstreak butterfly (Strymon melinus) on scarlet bugler penstemon (Penstemon barbatus). On Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Please click photo for full view.
Two-tailed swallowtail butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) on many-flowered stoneseed (Lithospermum multiflorum). At Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Two-tailed swallowtail butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) on many-flowered stoneseed (Lithospermum multiflorum). At Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
I went hiking today on Agassiz Peak outside Flagstaff, at an altitude where the ponderosa forest gives way to aspen and Douglas-fir and western white pine. Shown above is a dragon-tongued cone from a Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca). Topping off at 12,400 feet (3,800 m), Agassiz is a sky island, hosting plant communities that have more in common with ecosystems far to north than with rest of the Colorado Plateau region. On my hike I kept to sub-sub-alpine elevations, well below the tree line.
Tomorrow: aspens, penstemons, lupines, insects!
I went hiking today on Agassiz Peak outside Flagstaff, at an altitude where the ponderosa forest gives way to aspen and Douglas-fir and western white pine. Shown above is a dragon-tongued cone from a Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca). Topping off at 12,400 feet (3,800 m), Agassiz is a sky island, hosting plant communities that have more in common with ecosystems far to north than with rest of the Colorado Plateau region. On my hike I kept to sub-sub-alpine elevations, well below the tree line.
Tomorrow: aspens, penstemons, lupines, insects!
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