A series of photographs taken in several wetlands in the eastern Sierras over the last several months.
Athyrium filix-femina var. cyclosorum, the feminine fern, photographed roughly 100 yards from the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe. This fellow was living atop a single rock stuck fast in the creek bottom.
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Athyrium filix-femina var. cyclosorum, the feminine fern.
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Athyrium filix-femina var. cyclosorum, showing developing sori.
Circaea alpina spp. pacifica, a beautiful little member of the evening primrose family. This growing very near to the Athyrium photographed above.
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Circaea alpina ssp. pacifica, Pacific enchanter’s nightshade.
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Circaea alpina ssp. pacifica, Pacific enchanter’s nightshade, flower closeup.
The Sierra rein orchid.
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Platanthera dilatata var. leucostachys, the Sierra rein orchid.
Little elephant head, Pedicularis groenlandica. This species has a very wide distribution – from southwestern Greenland, across northern North America, as far south as montane areas of northern Arizona. This individual was photographed in a wet meadow in the Mt. Rose Wilderness, just to the west of Reno, Nevada.
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Pedicularis groenlandica, the little elephant head.
Upon close inspection, the land was determined to be wet. This waterfall feeds the creek that wets the marsh in which I found the above photographed Pedicularis.
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A partial rainbow in a waterfall.