Navaho Pass — Tuesday, Jun. 17, 2025

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

Thank you PiperMarmalade for your Lake Ann/Esmeralda report! Your precise information told me that the flowers would be about 10 days ahead of average.

A great hike for wildflower diversity, at a great time, Paul and I saw 108 species of plants in bloom (see Paul's list below, thanks Paul)! The trail passes through so many habitats as it rises from forest to alpine with small streams and avalanche shoots crossing it to add to the mix. There are a few thick areas: the shooting stars, cotton grass, and fan-leaf cinquefoil in the meadow towards the top, the Drummond’s anemones at the top (photo 1), fields of yarrow, buckwheat, and scarlet gilia in the avalanche shoots, thick pockets of tiger lilies in the lower sections (photo 2), many spots of dwarf snow primrose on the moonscape (photo 4), shooting stars and asters in the streams, and many more. I've never seen more than a few orange agoseris (photo 3) on a trail, they are always pretty (to me).

About 10 blowdowns, 1 is a bit of a challenge for the unagile. Privy was clean, with some TP. The road is in very good shape.

FLOWERING PLANTS IN BLOOM (108 species)

white (40)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

vanilla leaf (Achlys triphylla)

western serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)

pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)

Drummond’s anemone (Anemone drummondii)

raceme pussytoes (Antennaria racemosa)

pinemat manzanita (Arctostaphylos nevadensis)

alpine / American bistort (Bistorta bistortoides)

snowbrush ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus)

chickweed, species uncertain (Cerastium sp.)

lance-leaf spring-beauty (Claytonia lanceolata)

queen’s cup (Clintonia uniflora)

red-twig / red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera)

arrowleaf / heartleaf buckwheat (Eriogonum compositum)

alpine buckwheat (Eriogonum pyrolifolium)

woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

blue-leaf strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

cow parnsip (Heracleum maximum)

round-leaf alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica)

white-flowered hawkweed (Hieracium albiflorum)

Gray’s lovage (Ligusticum grayi)

plumed / large false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum)

starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)

large-leaf sandwort (Moehringia macrophylla)

silver-leaf phacelia (Phacelia hastata)

white rein orchid (Platanthera dilatata)

bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata)

alpine / Fendler’s pennycress (Noccaea fendleri)

Thompson’s cat-eye / oreocarya (Oreocarya thompsonii)

western Labrador tea (Rhododendron neoglandulosum)

sticky currant (Ribes viscosissimum)

thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)

trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus)

Cascade mountain-ash (Sorbus scopulina)

Sitka mountain-ash (Sorbus sitchensis)

shiny-leaf spiraea (Spiraea lucida / betufolia) 

white lawn clover (Trifolium repens)

western / Pacific trillium (Trillium ovatum)

panicled death-camas (Toxicoscordion paniculatum)

Sitka valerian (Valeriana sitchensis)

 

yellow (28)

alyssum, desert or small (Alyssum desertorum or alyssoides)

heart-leaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia)

mountain arnica (Arnica latifolia)

arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata)

tall silvercrown (Cacaliopsis nardosmia)

hawksbeard, species uncertain (Crepis sp.)

shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)

tall cinquefoil (Drymocallis / Potentilla arguta)

cliff / sticky cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa)

sulphur-flower buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)

wallflower, sand-dwelling or western (Erysimum arenicola or capitatum)

glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

large-leaf avens (Geum macrophyllum)

desert-parsley / biscuit-root, probably nine-leaf (Lomatium, probably triternatum)

desert-parsley / biscuit-root, probably short-leaf (Lomatium, probably brevifolium)

barestem desert-parsley / biscuit-root (Lomatium nudicaule)

Cascades Oregon-grape (Mahonia nervosa)

false agoseris / desert dandelion (Nothocalais troximoides)

western sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza occidentalis)

bracted lousewort (Pedicularis bracteosa)

yellow mountain-heath (Phyllodoce glanduliflora)

fan-leaf cinquefoil (Potentilla flabellifolia)

buttercup, maybe straight-beak (Ranunculus, maybe orthorhynchus)

stonecrop, probably lance-leaf (Sedum, probably lanceolatum)

tall western groundsel (Senecio integerrimus)

yellow salsify (Tragopogon dubius)

pioneer / streamside violet (Viola glabella)

goosefoot violet (Viola purpurea)

 

 

 

 

reddish: pink to red to red-purple (23)

snow douglasia (Androsace / Douglasia nivalis)

rosy pussytoes (Antennaria microphylla / rosea)

spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

red columbine (Aquilegia formosa)

harsh paintbrush (Castilleja hispida)

scarlet paintbrush (Castilleja miniata)

pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata) 

spotted coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata)

scarlet gilia / skyrocket (Ipomopsis / Gilia aggregata)

pea, probably few-flowered (Lathyrus, probably pauciflorus)

Columbia lewisia (Lewisia columbiana)

Pacific / western starflower (Lysimachia latifolia)

little-leaf montia (Montia parvifolia)

spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa)

shooting-star, probably Jeffrey’s (Primula, probably jeffreyi)

swamp gooseberry (Ribes lacustre)

Lobb’s gooseberry (Ribes lobbii)

rose, species uncertain (Rosa sp.)

red sorrel / common sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella)

common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

western meadow-rue (Thalictrum occidentale)

red clover (Trifolium pratense)

tall / black huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)

 

bluish: blue to violet to blue-purple (11)

edible thistle (Cirsium edule)

rockslide larkspur (Delphinium glareosum)

larkspur, probably common / upland (Delphinium, probably nuttallianum)

subalpine daisy / fleabane (Erigeron glacialis)

Jessica’s stickseed (Hackelia micrantha)

lupine, broad-leaf and/or big-leaf (Lupinus latifolius and/or polyphyllus)

lupine, probably silky (Lupinus, probably sericeus)

bluebells, species uncertain (Mertensia sp.)

shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticosus)

small-flower penstemon (Penstemon procerus)

American vetch (Vicia americana)

 

orange (3)

orange agoseris (Agoseris aurantiaca)

Columbia / tiger lily (Lilium columbianum)

orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa)

 

 

brown (2)

Oregon boxwood (Paxistima myrsinites)

chocolate-tips or fern-leaf desert-parsley / biscuit-root 

(Lomatium dissectum or multifidum)

 

green (1)

slender bog orchid (Platanthera stricta)

 

 

BIRDS

American Goldfinch

Western Tanager

Steller’s Jay

Swainson’s Thrush

American Robin

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee

Clark’s Nutcracker

Red-Breasted Nuthatch 

Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Townsend’s Warbler

Common Raven

Chipping Sparrow

Cassin’s Finch

Lazuli Bunting

 

 

BUTTERFLIES

Parnassian, species uncertain (Parnassius sp.)

Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon)

Pale Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio eurymedon)

Julia’s / Pacific Orange-Tip (Anthocharis julia)

Western Pine Elfin (Callophrys eryphon)

Echo / Spring Azure (Celastrina echo)

Boisduval's Blue (Icaricia icarioides)

Acmon Blue (Icaricia acmon)

greater fritillary, species uncertain (Speyeria sp.)

Lorquin's Admiral (Limenitis lorquini)

California Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica)

Snowberry Checkerspot (Euphydryas colon)

Crescent, probably Northern (Phyciodes, probably cocyta)

Ochre / Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia)

 

 

REPTILE

garter snake (Thamnophis sp.)