Crataegus douglasii, Douglas Hawthorn. Several simple with flwoers with yellow stamen rising in a cluster from a reddish brown twig. Fresh new green foliage is visible. The background is blurred green.
Cryptogramma acrostichoides, American Rockbrake fern. Against dark background, backlit foliage, dramatically green. Some leaves are already unfurled, finely divided and redivided, and many leaves are emerging as stems topped with spiral-furled leaves.
Delphinium nuttallianum, upland larkspur. On a blurry biscuit coloured BG, one flower in focus and two others blurry. They have five petals, intense electric blue, and a "bee" in the middle, a pair of modified petals possibly meant to attract pollinators by looking vaguely like something they want to mate with. The flwoers are arranged on a spike, and there a few linear leaves visible.
Dicentra formosa, Dutchman's Breeches. Closely related to the Bleeding Hearts one sees in gardens, but rather than being clump-forming it is rampageously invasive.
Against a blurry BG of leaves, a cluster of drooping flowers. Each is dull pink and shaped vaguely like a heart, but with two "wings" sticking out the bottom, and an infant seed pod emerging from the point.
Spring flora, #BC
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