Sego Lilies lit by rising Sun

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Legendary sweet-bulb flower which supposedly sustained starving Utah Pioneers ... becoming pretty rare a century and a half later, but ... abundantly blooming again in the Wasatch Foothills in an unusually moist spring season of 2008.

6/9/08

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SoCalHiker

Stunning!

Voted 10/10

What a beautiful flower and a great capture. Thanks.

Posted Jun 9, 2008 7:07 pm


	Dmitry Pruss	Re: Stunning!
	Voted 10/10	Thanks SoCal! That's what even the scientific name says, "beautiful grass" = Calochortus :)
		Posted Jun 10, 2008 1:15 pm

nebben

First time this year

Voted 10/10

Maybe it was that I actually got out and saw a lot of dirt this year during training, but I saw a lot of these this spring through the summer. I saw them as low as Antelope Island and as high as ~9000 on GWT in the Wasatch...very cool pic!

Posted Oct 17, 2008 10:38 am


	GeoPooch Sobachka	Re: First time this year
	Hasn't voted	This year was just amazing for spring flowers. In a dry spring, sego lilies are fairly hard to spot. What did you train for?
		Posted Oct 17, 2008 12:15 pm