burchfielddavidr's Identifications

Cusick or Wallowa primrose

Good localized population.

At around 3500 ft elevation

Popping up out of a sandy wash, these buttercups were the lowest-elevation individuals in the area. Most other plants were growing above the drainage, on rockier north aspects.

Scattered individuals on steep terrain, in earlier flower than plants farther downslope. With Quercus turbinella, Fraxinus anomala, Ericameria nauseosa, and Artemisia spp.

Buttercups are quite common locally here, these were in early flower.

Buttercups locally common in the immediate area, in early to mid flower.

Just peeking out here, near the upper elevational limit of buttercups seen in February 2024.

These individuals are near the upper elevational limit of the species on this slope.

Locally common on north-facing slopes, near outcrops of bedrock, among scattered shrubs, on medium-steep slopes. Early to mid flower.

Interdune flats of exposed basalt.

Growing above a fork of the Right Fork of Indian Canyon.