Nevada Wildflower Reports

Nevada Wildflower Reports summarizes the most recent reports of plant growth and reproduction, moisture conditions, and wildflower displays submitted by members, including negative reports.  Field trip leaders, please consider submitting a report of wildflower observed during your trip.

For additional Nevada reports see DesertUSA.com's Nevada-Utah page. For adjacent states see also Utah's Red Butte Garden Wildflower Hotline, the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) Great Wildflowers Discussion Board and Wildflower Links, Death Valley National Park's Wildflowers page, Carol Leigh's California Wildflower Hotsheet, and DesertUSA.com's Arizona and California pages.

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Nevada Wildflower Reports

  • Balardini ranch trail, Lone Tree Lane

    Visit Date: 03/22/2019
    Observers: Susan Clarkson
    Site County: Washoe
    Elevation: 4,800 feet
    Site Description:
    Foothills above Steamboat Ditch, SW Reno
    Species List:
    Please list species found and whether they were blooming, past blooming, or in bud. Also list any species known or suspected for that area which were seen during the visit.  Beckwith violet
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  • Peavine near Hoge Road

    Visit Date: 05/10/2013
    Observers: Janel Johnson, Sarah Kulpa, Elizabeth Bergstrom, Kim O'Connor
    Site County: Washoe
    Elevation: 5,300 feet
    Site Description:
    Rocky hillsides with clay soils, moderately steep to almost flat, east aspect.
    Species List:

    Blooming:

    Perideridia bolanderi
    Lewisia rediviva
    Eriogonum douglassii
    Balsamorhiza hookeri
    Cleome platycarpa
    Lupinus malacophyllus
    Amsinckia
    Allium
    Blepharipappus scaber
     
    Past blooming:
    Ivesia webberi
    Trifolium macrocephalum
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  • Silver Peak

    Visit Date: 05/09/2013
    Observers: Janel Johnson, Sarah Kulpa
    Site County: Esmeralda
    Elevation: 4,250 feet
    Site Description:
    Dry, rocky toeslopes above the south end of Silver Peak.
    Species List:
    In bloom:
    Opuntia basilaris
    Echinocereus englemanii
    Eriogonum tiehmii
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  • Pogues Station

    Visit Date: 05/06/2013
    Observers: Janel Johnson, Sarah Kulpa
    Site County: White Pine
    Elevation: 5,450 feet
    Site Description:
    South facing rock outcrop near the top of a hill.  Habitat is a mix of juniper and mountain big sagebrush.
    Species List:
    Very large Echinocereus triglochidatus in full bloom
    Sphaeralcea ambigua also in bloom
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  • Peavine Mountain

    Visit Date: 03/24/2012
    Observers: Gary Monroe, John Weiser, Tom Schuster, Charlie Duncan
    Site County: Washoe
    Elevation: 8,000 feet
    Site Description:
    Near the summit of Peavine Mountain in an area that was very stony.
    Species List:
    Claytonia umbellata in bloom. Lewisia redivida in leaf. On March 24, 2012.
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  • Kirsh Wildlife Management Area, White River Valley

    Visit Date: 07/11/2011
    Observers: Janel Johnson, Sarah Kulpa
    Site County: Nye
    Elevation:
    Site Description:
    White clay badlands, valley bottom
    Species List:
    In Bloom: Mentzelia teihmii, Frasera gypsicola, Penstemon immanifestus, Eriogonum darrovii, Polygala subspinosa, Lobelia cardinalis (at Hot Creek Spring only) Past Bloom: Castilleja sp., yellow flax, Frasera albomarginatus, Physaria chambersii. Not yet blooming: Commandra umbellata.
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