Sauer's Mountain Trail 04/24/2009 Part 1

One of my favorite early season hikes is the Sauer's Trail near Peshastin Washington. A hike through the wildflowers of Central Washington in early spring. This trail was built and maintained by a private landowner, and I'm so glad that they did make it available to the public.

Most wildflowers east of the Cascades seem to all be in a hurry to bloom in the spring, and by June or July most things have already become dormant. This is because most of the precipitation falls during the winter, and the springtime is the only time that the plants have adequate water and temperatures to be able to photosynthesize and reproduce. There are some plants such as sagebrush and rabbitbrush that bloom later in August, but these are the exceptions.

For some reason these videos do not play automatically in good resolution, please choose to watch in high definition- then you can actually see the blue-eyed Mary and Lomatiums.

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[WTFnHell]

Is the "lathyrus pauciflorus" a nitrogen fixing plant like the lupin (lupine) ?

[Carex09]

Yes. Many of the plants in the Fabaceae family, Lathyrus and lupines included, have rhizobium- nitrogen fixing bacteria in the root nodules- and add nitrogen to the soil.