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More wildflowers in the Bull Mountains

Hanta Yo

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Went around checking cows, mineral, water, took pics of some of the wildflowers blooming.

These iris were present at an abandoned homestead, I imagine the plants are at least 75 yrs old. Been planning on digging them up and taking them home and replanting. The weather's been good to them, they've spread out since I last saw them a few years ago. I did dig up 3 shovelsful of the iris, they are so small and dainty..

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Here we have some Star Lily, they are quite pretty

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Mrs. Greg, the Snow Crocus as you call them, they are called pasque flowers here and I didn't know that!!!!...I did some homework before posting these but couldn't find all the names of the rest of these flowers!

These are all over the place, anyone know what they are?

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Or these??

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Lots of Golden Peas, they show up when we have moisture.

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Ran into these critters as we were heading toward the W end of the ranch:

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HAY MAKER

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Thanks for the tour Hanta,those yeller flowers you were askin about ,are called cow pen daisies

around here...................good luck
 

Mrs.Greg

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Thank-you for posting the pictures,we haven't been down to pasture for a couple weeks so not sure whats out there yet.Ok so what you call golden peas ,my father-in- law called buffalo beans.We're later then you guys on your flowers,I have Saskatoon,Apple,Chokecherry,Pin cherryand plum trees in my yard but none are in bloom yet.As a matter of fact the leaves are just coming!I would like to see what your wild plum looks like,see if thats whats in my yard.Gregs dad passed away a few years ago and left me with some questions!
 

Faster horses

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Hanta Yo, the big yellow flowers are Balsam Arrowroots.

When we lived in W. Montana one of the oldtimers there told me some about them and the theory goes that you shouldn't turn out until the Balsam Arrowroot plant blooms. Only then is the grass ready to be grazed.

I can't tell you what the little reddish flowers are, as I can't quite see them. At first I thought they were shooting stars, but I am sure you would know what those are. The leaf on that plant looks familiar. Hopefully, I can come up with some idea if I think about it long enough.


Beautiful wildflowers, thanks for sharing!

BTW, if you want to take a look at some of the baloney being printed, look at this. (I just happened to stumble onto it):

www.lakecountrynews.net/columns/taylor16.html
 

Hanta Yo

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Yup, starts with yellow flowers ends with baloney. Is this a blog? I didn't stay in there long enough to find out, I had to get out FAST for a breath of FRESH AIR.
Thanks for all your posts, FH, I truly appreciate you. :D

Hey, thanks for the info on the flowers :D I'll just jot them down in my little book :D
 

ranchwife

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hanta yo---thanks for the great pix....serves as a reminder that spring is just around the corner...okay..so maybe some of you have been having spring (unlike some of us :roll: :lol: )!!!
 

DJL

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The pink flowers are called three flowered avens, although I'm not sure without looking it up, how to spell avens.
 

Northern Rancher

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Those Bull Mountains are a pretty part of the world aren't they-this was when we used to run our bulls south every year-used to look forward to going through them.
 

Hanta Yo

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Yep, Bull Mtns are pretty, thanks guys for the information on the flowers. There's a website on MT wildflowers but I couldn't find them all :cry: So you guys were a help. Thanks!!!!
 

Hanta Yo

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Mrs. Greg,

Here's a pic of a native plum we planted in the garden. The bark is reddish. The big tree next to the plum tree with all the blooms is also a native plum tree, but it is leafing before flowering. The little one, along with the trees in the second picture are flowering before leafing. Go figure :?

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Here are some native plums just growing wild, I imagine one time or other someone planted them. There used to be a whole mess of them, this drought has pretty much killed them out. I think we need to get the chainsaw and pruners and pretty these scraggly plums up!

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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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So Hanta Yo.....yer post about flowering before leafing, and leafing before flowering, made it sound like the flowering before leafing was odd???

All our plum trees, peach trees, pear trees, they all bloom before they put leaves on. Just wondering what you concidered the normal way. Your post kinda confused me....LOL but that's not awful hard to do.... :D
 

Mrs.Greg

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Thanks Hanta they do seem to be the same,we've had alot of drought and they haven't had fruit for two years now...maybe I should prune them huh! Lilly as for your question,not sure about Montana,but we get leaves before blossoms although first time ever,at work today the nanking cherrys have blossoms and hardly any leaves.We were all discussing that,its not normal here thats for sure!Interesting to know that IS the norm there...every place is differnet,I love it.
 

Hanta Yo

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Jersey Lilly,

The picture I posted of the plum in the garden with all the flowers, the tree next to it is also the same plum, but older, it has lots of leaves coming out and flower buds. The smaller plum has all those flowers, and just budding out leaves. Maybe the big one got hurt by the frost more and so is leafing and not so much flowering.

I know our apple and crabapples flower before the leaves come out. I guess those that don't flower but have leaves must have gotten hurt by frost during late winter/early spring. I'm not a horticulturist, I guess I can look it up on the internet, just thought I would run it by you guys first. Experience is more expert than most experiments, especially if the experience is repeated the same over a number of years. :D
 

Tap

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Hanta, the small yellow flowers look like what we call buttercups. There are a few of them showing up around here recently. I have been fencing a lot, and noticing that the grass sure has popped the last 2 weeks. It has a great start.

I love wildflowers too. Thanks for posting the pics.
 

Badlands

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Arrowleaf Balsamroot.

Here is a nice reference.

John Lacey was at MSU for a good number of years.

He retired and moved to the Glascow area about 12 years ago, just can't remember exactly what town up there. I think he bought a little place right on the Milk, or very near it.

http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/eb122.html


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Badlands said:
Arrowleaf Balsamroot.

Here is a nice reference.

John Lacey was at MSU for a good number of years.

He retired and moved to the Glascow area about 12 years ago, just can't remember exactly what town up there. I think he bought a little place right on the Milk, or very near it.

http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/eb122.html


Badlands

Badlands-- He lives out by Tampico...I see John and his wife often--I've known his wifes family forever-- he is a director on the irrigation District Board and was working some at the salesyard so I saw him quite regularly ... Used to run sheep, but I think maybe the last flood and getting them out of the river bottom did that project in :roll: .....
 

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