Twisty seaside Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), a PNW native, with krummholz effect. These spruce can grow over 300 ft (~100m) tall in sheltered areas! And live over 600 years!
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Was looking at redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea) berries, was visited by this crane fly
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I think the western redcedars (Thuja plicata) are competing with banyans for trunk structures
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Late summer colors: bleached grasses and pearly everlastings (Anaphalis margaritacea)
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A couple of native flowers from the dog walk: Cooley's hedge nettle (Stachys cooleyae) and self-heal (Prunella vulgaris var lanceolata), both in the mint family (Lamiaceae)
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A photo before the squirrels get them! Sadler's oak (Quercus sadleriana)
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Blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis) growing in our garden. Very evil thorns
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Fireweed or rosebay willowherb (Chamaenerion angustifolium) growing in summer grasses. These are shorter plants. They get to be 6 ft tall (approx 2 m)
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Harebells (Campanula rotundofolia) in the grass in the park. These little blue charmers grow in so many places, prairie to mountainside.
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A little botanizing with rose hips. 1. Baldhip rose hip, you can see why! 2. Peafruit rose hips, also small and closely clustered. 3. Nootka rose hips, about 3 times the size of peafruit rose. 4. Peafruit roses are still blooming!
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Evening in June
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Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii), one of my favorites, always herald the beginning of summer here. -
Dainty little narrowleaf onion flower clusters (Allium amplectens) peek through the grass in the prairie patch.
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Ookow flowers (Dichelostemma congestum) atop a long, snaky bare stem. The leaves look like strappy grass, and are hard to spot amid the grass!
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks #PugetPrairieRestoration #BluesI learned that the leaves wilt before the flowers open, so you probably couldn't see them anyhow.
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Woolly sunflower or Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum), either is a good name for these cheerful flowers in the grass
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Riverbank lupines (Lupinus rivularis) are almost at the end of their bloom
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This tiny baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa) is about as big as the tip of my thumb. This year is the first time I've spotted them. #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks #RavennaPark
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A Nootka rose (Rosa nutkana) shedding perfume on the trail. Gather ye rose blooms while you may, they die before the end of May.
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I thought i missed the bloom time for orange honeysuckle (Lonicera viliosa), but there it was in the hazelnut bush, blooming away
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Bigleaf lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) blooming amidst the creeping buttercups
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You only need one or two wild roses open to get bathed in heavenly perfume. This marsh rose (Rosa pisocarpa) beckoned from afar
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Common camas (Camassia quamash) in two shades. They can range from pale blue to deep purple blue. They spread by seed and bulb division. They were a main food source for coastal tribes.
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Flowers now, berries later: a thimbleberry flower (Rubus parviflorus) amid its huge leaves, and a salal (Gaultheria shallon) stem of barely open, very hairy flowers.
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Red huckleberry (Vaccinium parviflorum). I almost missed the flowers this year! They're so green! Two weeks ago i thought I had plenty of time. Now they've mostly set fruit.
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Piggyback plant(Tolmiea menziesii) the same one people grow as an indoor plant, flourishes along streambanks around here.
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Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) flowers on a swooping branch
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What is this? A fine salad green!
Miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is really going to town! It is very tasty when freshly picked.
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Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) growing in the woods understory. Apparently indigenous peoples used the flowering of this shrub as a, signal to fish halibut.
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Wild ginger (Asarum caudatum) on the park trail. I usually miss the flowers, but decided to stop and check today. Of course, the mud made walking interesting #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleParks #SeattleSpring #CowenPark #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #BloomScrolling
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The sun is out and the blooming bigleaf maples shine
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