new Beatty vispo 05.17.2020

jim leftwich, cheatgrass

cheatgrass

at low winter and nut
bottlebrush squirreltail
sagebrush to prod
native competition
cheatgrass spells fire
in the earlier summer
forbs prior to fall
cheatfire in the grasses

05.17.2020
Beatty, NV

jim leftwich, The bloom in the mountains

The bloom in the mountains

Charleston Phacelia
Water Speedwell
Dwarf Phlox
Arizona Skyrocket

Scented Shootingstar
Mojave Pricklypoppy
Coville's Dwarf Sand Verbena
Cooper's Rubberweed

Redstem Stork's Bill
Charleston Mountain Violet
Arizona Thistle
Heartleaf Twistflower

New Mexico Thistle
Clokey Thistle

05.16.2020
Beatty, NV

Jim Leftwich, Wildflowers in the Spring Mountains

Wildflowers in the Spring Mountains

Tufted evening primrose
Spreading dogbane
Howard's evening primrose
Dustymaiden

Elkweed
Gooseberryleaf Globemallow
Mountain Monardella
Nevada goldeneye

Clokey egg milkvetch
Rock goldenrod
Nutall's lianthus
Lobeleaf groundsel

Seep Monkeyflower
Firecracker Penstemon

05.16.2020
Beatty, NV

Jim Leftwich, Mountain Wildflowers

Mountain Wildflowers

sulphur-flower buckwheat
broom snakeweed
matchweed
smoothstem blazingstar

king bladderpod
Apache plume
king's angelica
cryptantha

alkali buttercup
western columbine
Stansbury cliffrose
Clokey's catchfly

rosy-petaled cliffbush
woolly cinquefoil

05.16.2020
Beatty, NV

Jim Leftwich, Spring Mountains Research Poem

Spring Mountains Research Poem

37 species of trees
600 species of vascular plants
Palmer's chipmunk
white bursage, burro-weed
Freemont's cottonwood
blackbrush
bajadas
Mojave Yucca
sedges, forbs, mosses, lichens
quaking aspen

05.16.2020
Beatty, NV