Yosemite Wildflower Guide
The Yosemite area is home to hundreds of varieties of wildflower, with dozens more clamoring to get in all the time. The great bloom-off starts in Hite Cove, a few miles outside the park at around 2,000 feet elevation, in late February or early March, and for the most part spreads like a stadium wave from low to high elevations, hitting Yosemite Valley and Wawona Meadow Mayish, brightening the meadows along the Glacier Point and Tioga Roads in June and July, and hanging on at high elevations like the Gaylor Lakes basin as late as August. In case you weren't keeping track, that's a six month window of wildflowers. If they're what you're after, you can hardly miss.
Leaf through this guide, and you'll find photos of - well, of something less than the hundreds of species of wildflowers that proliferate in the Yosemite area. Why? These entries take a few hours apiece to compose, and when you add up all the time spent sleeping in, eating bon bons, and scratching oneself, there aren't a lot of hours left in the day for working on websites. So this wildflower guide creeps along at a fairly stately pace. It is, nonetheless, creeping along, so keep checking back for additions, and if it isn't in full flower by, say, mid April of 2014, start sending impatient emails this way - it can't hurt.
