Summary[edit] Description: Eveningsnow (Linanthus dichotomus), Phlox family (Polemoniaceae). Around the East Entrance of the Zion Nat. Park, Utah. Date: 23 April 2016, 17:05. Source: 2016.04.23_17.05.13_IMG_4989. Author: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA.
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Summary[edit] Description: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus, California, Sierra Nevada, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley drainage, elevation 1370 m (4490 ft). (Also visible are yellowbuds, Eriophyllum pringlei.) A reward for an early morning rise: flowers still open with enough light to capture without a flash. (Another more spectacular reward is coming in next weekend's post..) In wetter spring seasons when this annual appears, it earns its common name soon after sundown by transforming from thready, barely visible plants like the one earlier in this post, to fields of fragrant bright white blossoms. They start closing again as soon as the sky brightens in the morning, and most are fully closed by the time direct sun hits them. Like several other white night-flowering members of the Phlox family, this subspecies emits an intense perfume throughout the night, presumably to attract the night-foraging moths that visit its flowers. Sometimes I only realize such species are around my campsite after spending the first night bathed in their fragrance. The flowers of a rarer subspecies, L. dichotomus subsp. meridianus restricted to north coastal California, remain open during the day. Date: 1 May 2016, 06:23. Source: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus. Author: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA. Camera location37° 22′ 25.72″ N, 118° 29′ 45.82″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.373811; -118.496062.
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Summary[edit] Description: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus, California, Sierra Nevada, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley drainage, elevation 1370 m (4490 ft). (Also visible are yellowbuds, Eriophyllum pringlei.) A reward for an early morning rise: a fully open flower just as the sunlight hit it. (Another more spectacular reward is coming in next weekend's post..) In wetter spring seasons when this annual appears, it earns its common name soon after sundown by transforming from thready, barely visible plants like the one earlier in this post, to fields of fragrant bright white blossoms. They start closing again as soon as the sky brightens in the morning, and most are fully closed by the time direct sun hits them. Like several other white night-flowering members of the Phlox family, this subspecies emits an intense perfume throughout the night, presumably to attract the night-foraging moths that visit its flowers. Sometimes I only realize such species are around my campsite after spending the first night bathed in their fragrance. The flowers of a rarer subspecies, L. dichotomus subsp. meridianus restricted to north coastal California, remain open during the day. Date: 1 May 2016, 06:35. Source: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus. Author: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA. Camera location37° 22′ 25.72″ N, 118° 29′ 45.82″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.373811; -118.496062.
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Summary[edit] Description: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus, California, Sierra Nevada, Tungsten Hills, McGee Creek, Owens Valley drainage, elevation 1515 m (4965 ft). In wetter spring seasons when this annual appears, it earns its common name soon after sundown by transforming from thready, barely visible plants like this one, to fields of fragrant bright white blossoms (next posts). Once I saw this one during midday, my fate was sealed: I would have to rise well before the sun next morning, for any hope of catching a few flowers open before the sky brightened too much. Like several other white night-flowering members of the Phlox family, this subspecies emits an intense perfume throughout the night, presumably to attract the night-foraging moths that visit its flowers. Sometimes I only realize such species are around my campsite after spending the first night bathed in their fragrance. The flowers of a rarer subspecies, L. dichotomus subsp. meridianus restricted to north coastal California, remain open during the day. Date: 30 April 2016, 11:25. Source: evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus subsp. dichotomus. Author: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA. Camera location37° 21′ 10.48″ N, 118° 30′ 20.12″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 37.352911; -118.505589.