Finally, our first Mystery Flower. And our first slightly less than in focus example of amateur photography.
My camera has auto-focus. If it can’t get a “lock” it won’t shoot the photo. There are ways around it, but I thought I’d locked on the flowers. In the event, the lock was more on the leaf, when you blow the photo up to actual pixels you get blurred petals.
By way of assisting the identification process I’ve included 2 shots. The first, shows the very distinct branching of the stems (I’m sure that’s not correct from a botany standpoint).
The second photo is more of a complete plant/cluster.
The photos were take during the Upper Geyser Basin hike.
My quick look at the plastic foldout card for Yellowstone seemed to look like Common Tansy. A different reference had a photo of Sweet Fennel that had little clusters of yellow plants. Neither of these are listed as common on the Yellowstone Wildflower Sheet.
I’m leaning toward Sulfur Buckwheat since it is found parkwide.
But I wide open to suggestions. So comment away.
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