2024: Wildflowers on the Wasatch Plateau

In 2024 we headed to Ephraim Canyon and the Wasatch Plateau to explore a range of ecosystems up to 11,000 ft. We stayed at the Great Basin Station (Snow College, US Forest Service), where some of the first watershed research in the world was conducted. Highlights include diverse wildflower meadows, snowmelt communities, and calcareous mountaintop specialists such as Aquilegia scopulorum, Silene petersonii, and Astragalus montii [pictured]. And a surprise Botrychium, perhaps Botrychium tunux! Check out our iNaturalist project here. iNaturalist link