File:Grand Canyon National Park B-roll Video - Inner Canyon Wildflowers (8676165579).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (1,280 × 720 pixels, file size: 629 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description

Photographed on April 20, 2013 on the Tonto Platform in Grand Canyon National Park. The vast expanse of the Tonto Platform is located approximately 3900 ft (1200 m) below the South Rim, and separates the inner gorge from the outer gorge of the canyon.

Grand Canyon Park is home to hundreds of flowering plants. There are approximately 650 herbaceous (having little or no woody stem) wildflowers in the park.

Some of the common species displaying a white flower are the sacred datura, evening primrose, tidy fleabane, yarrow, baby white aster, desert tobacco, watercress, and white violet.

Some common yellow flowering wildflowers are broom snakeweed, yellow ragweed, hymenopapus, groundcherry, common mullein, Hooker's primrose, and blanket flower.

Red or orange flowered plants include the globe mallow, red columbine, skyrocket, penstemon, Indian paintbrush, and crimson monkeyflower.

Pink and purple wildflowers include the Rocky Mountain bee plant, fleabane, Palmer lupine, toadflax penstemon, Grand Canyon phacelia, and Rocky Mountain iris.
Date
Source Grand Canyon National Park: B-roll Video - Inner Canyon Wildflowers
Author Grand Canyon National Park
Camera location36° 05′ 20.86″ N, 112° 04′ 27.56″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 4 December 2020 by the administrator or reviewer Rodrigolopes, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:42, 21 November 2020Thumbnail for version as of 20:42, 21 November 20201,280 × 720 (629 KB)Tm (talk | contribs)Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons

There are no pages that use this file.