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Mule Deer of the Bitterroot Range (Original Post) Bo Zarts Nov 2025 OP
Thank you! Botany Nov 2025 #1
Western white pine are in the area, but the ubiquitous tree species at this elevation is Subalpine fir. Bo Zarts Nov 2025 #2
The white flower is Western Yarrow and the grass is a bunch grass of a native fescue. Botany Nov 2025 #3
Impressionist simulation of what it might look like up there now .. Bo Zarts Nov 2025 #5
Beautiful, in velvet surfered Nov 2025 #4
Very nice. Old Crank Nov 2025 #6

Botany

(77,276 posts)
1. Thank you!
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:32 PM
Nov 2025

FYI some kind of pine in the background, some native short grass prairie grasses, and
I can’t I.D. the white flowers. Good chance that area is covered with snow now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm-1516

Bo Zarts

(26,354 posts)
2. Western white pine are in the area, but the ubiquitous tree species at this elevation is Subalpine fir.
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:56 PM
Nov 2025

That particular pine is probably a Western white pine. I'd need a grass expert to identify the grasses of the area. The "bowl" in the drainage beyond and below the female deer has grasses so lush that it looks like a golf course all summer.

FYI, here are some of our trees in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest:

Idaho Panhandle Evergreens
Douglas-fir (Red Fir)
Englemann Spruce
Grand fir (White Fir)
Lodgepole Pine
Mountain Hemlock
Pacific Yew
Ponderosa Pine (Yellow Pine)
Subalpine fir
Western Hemlock
Western Larch (Tamarack)
Western Red Cedar
Western White Pine
Whitebark Pine


Idaho Panhandle Broadleafs
Black Cottonwood
Quaking Aspen
Western Paper Birch

Botany

(77,276 posts)
3. The white flower is Western Yarrow and the grass is a bunch grass of a native fescue.
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 01:28 PM
Nov 2025

N/t

Old Crank

(7,035 posts)
6. Very nice.
Tue Nov 25, 2025, 03:18 PM
Nov 2025

The only animals I have gotten to see around here are wild boar. And only at distance. Which is fine for me.

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