Hiking in Chico

Visited my brother in Chico over 4th of July. Spent most of the time chatting and hiking (backpacking Bucks Lake area), so not much time for botanizing.

Columbine, white ceanothus (very stinky and overpowering), corn lily, mallow, mariposa lily, pine drops Pterospora andromedea? (or was it coral root?) under the pines.






Also saw a white bog orchid Platanthera dilatata for the first time (though spent a lot of time looking!). The photo was snapped as we hiked past at dusk, so not the best quality.






This blue lily I had never seen before













this was interesting, looks like mistletoe on a pine tree.


Also, my poor husband got poisen oak. So I failed there in my botanical duty.
I never saw what got him.