Identification: Calochortus?

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  1. Nadia White Rock

    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    My guess it is Calochortus macrocarpus. I found it on the hwy 20 west from Okanogan and east from the North Cascades Mountains
     

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    Andrey Zharkikh Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Correct. The other two species that occur in you area are too different.
     
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Thank you. They are too far from each other. Plenty of these one on hwy 20 but in grassland near this marker
    DSC01544Heratage marker.JPG

    The other two we found in the forest
     
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    Andrey Zharkikh Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Very familiar picture - barbed wire everywhere. Some counties here in Utah are like a huge Gulag. Quite annoying when you are browsing for plants to photograph.
     
  5. Georgia Strait

    Georgia Strait Generous Contributor

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    oh - further to my comment today on your other wildflower thread - it looks like you found the mariposa lily that is common in BC Okanagan in dry, undisturbed open pine forests. It is common in Naramata in select natural areas along the KVR Trans Canada Trail.

    some people say it is called mariposa because it looks like a softly flittering butterfly (mariposa being espanol for butterfly?)
     
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    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Thank you for information
     

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