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This is one of the most common and conspicuous grasses in the southern Sierra Nevada along the John Muir Trail from the region of Bishop Pass south to the Mount Whitney and New Army Pass area. From the lodgepole pine zone and through the subalpine, this grass inhabits wet meadows even if only seasonally wet.

The blooming lemon lily was spotted by Patrick Drew; the one in bud was spotted by me. I had never noticed those lemon lilies at this location before! They would have been impossible to see unless one was blooming, since they just barely poked their flowers out of the Rhododendron plants.

The pix are not very good since these lilies were some distance from me, and were not easy to get to. I didn't want to trample any vegetation to get to them, either.