![]() ![]() For more of a challenge, either take the ferry across the lake or hike around to the Cascade Canyon trail. For an easier hike, stroll around Jenny Lake as far as you’re willing-the full loop is 7.3 miles. Two of the more iconic hikes in Grand Teton National Park. It’s two miles and climbs steadily the whole way, but offers plenty of shade and places to stop and smell the flowers. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has made looking for wildflowers even easier-any one of their hiking trails is sure to be covered in flora, but their aptly named “Wildflower Trail” is both family-friendly and beautiful. If you’re looking for a scenic hike, take the Wally’s World trail up to the ridgeline, where a beautiful view of the Valley and the Tetons awaits-and a bench for you to rest on. ![]() If you have a mountain bike and are looking for a longer adventure, take the full Munger Mountain eight-mile loop. Park at the Munger Mountain Trailhead up Fall Creek Road, 18 miles southwest of Jackson. Like Cache Creek, Munger Mountain boasts a large network of trails that meander through Aspen groves and abundant wildflowers. Wander onto a side trail, or just stick to the double-track dirt road (closed to vehicles) and take it as far up as your legs will allow. Just outside of downtown Jackson, the Cache Creek trailhead offers a whole sequence of hiking and mountain biking trails, each of which offers wildflowers galore. Talk to your concierge at Spring Creek Ranch to arrange transportation or a guide. Wherever you go, practice your best Leave No Trace ethics and take only photographs. Remember, Indian Paintbrush (Wyoming’s state flower) are illegal to pick, and it’s also against the law to take anything out of the National Parks. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best spots to see wildflowers in all their glory. Every June, they paint the valley floor in vibrant reds, blues, yellows and purples. Look for it on rocky slopes and dry plains, often associated with sagebrush scrub or in aspen/conifer forests.When the season is right, Wyoming’s wildflowers are perhaps as magical as its wildlife. Overall the blooming period runs from June to September. The Wyoming paintbrush starts a little later than the other two red species on this site and also blooms later. At their peak, the flowers extend considerably past the ends of the bracts, unlike the other red species described here. There, the stigmas protrude from the end of the tubes. The flowers are often hidden by the rolled up corolla apart from at the tip. It really doesn’t matter because you will already know this is a paintbrush. Depending on where you look, these are described as racemes, panicles or spikes. This (I will agree) is very difficult to show in photos. The calyx is cut more deeply on one side than the other. Once the flowers begin to appear, they consist of a pinkish-red to yellow calyx at the base of and surrounding a yellow-green floral tube. They are still considered part of the inflorescence, but not of the flowers per se. Each inflorescence has several dozen bracts. Like all the paintbrushes, the showy bits that catch your eye are not flowers, but modified leaves, or bracts. According to some reports, they can be silvery, but the only ones I have seen are glabrous, i.e. covilleana. The leaves range from about 1 to 3 inches long and the edges are rolled upward. C miniata, and generally not lobed, unlike C. The leaves are much narrower than other species, i.e. But it is not a dense canopy instead, the leaves are sparse. Of all the paintbrushes in the Valley, this is the tallest, reaching up to 3 feet with mostly unbranched stems. This is one of the most widespread of the paintbrushes, found throughout the western US. Unlike the others, it is also the state flower of Wyoming. Like other paintbrushes, it is hemiparasitic. The Wyoming paintbrush is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows from a branched caudex. See also: Castilleja miniata / Scarlet paintbrush Castilleja spp. rocky areas with sagebrush and conifer forestsĪlso known as: narrow-leaved Indian paintbrush, desert paintbrush, Wyoming desert paintbrush, Wyoming paintbrush, linaria-leaved Indian Paintbrush, Indian paintbrush.calyx is red and shorter than the corolla which is greenish yellow.very thin leaves, seldom lobed, seldom hairy.generally taller than most paintbrushes (up to 3 feet). ![]()
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