Shenandoah National Park is awash in wildflowers this summmer. Here is a collection of photographs from Shenandoah this summer.
Trips: Shenandoah Summer Wildflowers 2016
A great magnet for butterflies. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Geraniums bloom for much of the late spring and summer where there is sufficient moisture. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Turks Cap at the Point Overlook. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Turks Cap. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Goldenrod blooms in the fog. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Wildflowers bloom on a hillside below Shenandoah's peaks. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A field of rudbeckia and helianthus bloom with Old Rag Mountain looming in the back. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
The slender flowering spikes of black cohosh invite us into Big Meadows and the forest's edge. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Pink Allium wildlfower complements the numeous rudbeckia, daisies and helianthus found in Shenandoah National Park. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A vivid red columbine blooms in the moist shade. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
The dried seed heads of cow parsnip rise above a field of black eyed susans and sunflowers. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A soft fog blankets Big Meadows' wildflowers. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Orange Butterfly Weed, is in reality a beautiful wildflower that blooms in the open meadows in late summer,. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Amidst the drying grasses of late summer grows a medley of orange butterfly weed, yellow rudbeckia and pink clover near Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Wildflowers White Queen Anne's Lace, or Daucus carota, and pink clover against a backdrop of black eyed susans in Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A wildflower field of Queen Anne's Lace and pink clover grows on the edge of Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Orange butterfly weed grows amidst a field of pink and white allium and scattered thistle and milkweed, in Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Purple Begamot or bee balm mixes with white Queen Anne's Lace and white and pink allium in fog covered Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Big Meadows has the highest concentration of rare plants in Shenandoah and both contains and abuts important wetlands with two mafic fens, a type of wetland, present that support exceptionally rare flora. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A mix of wildflowers in Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Pink wildflowers line a rock wall at one of the overlooks into the Shenandoah valley. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Queen Anne's Lace, bee balm and clover mix in Big Meadows. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
A massive scape of ferns in Shenandoah National Park. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Yellow helianthus wildflowers bloom at Jewell Hollow Overlook. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.
Wildflowers and butterflies enjoy the view of Jewell Hollow Overlook. Photo © copyright by Ed Fuhr.