Lavender pink dicentra flowers pop above their green lacy, feathery leaves. The flowers are shaped like flattened urns, with little up tipped petals at the end. They grow in short racemes along thin wiry stems above the leaves.
Wild dicentra (Dicentra formosa) blooming in the woods (also known as Pacific bleeding heart)
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Several bright yellow swamp lantern (or western skunk cabbage) spathes emerge from large green leaves on a stream bank. The leaves are going to grow until they are large enough to wrap a cat. Not that you would want to. The yellow spathes look a bit like sails. There is a greenish yellow spadix enclosed in the spathe, full of tiny bumps that are the actual fliwers. The swamp lanterns, are scattered around a slender mossy redcedar tree trunk.
Swamp lantern patch (Lysichiton americanus)
Soon they'll just be leaves
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Lady ferns (Athyrium filix-femina) fiddle heads are unfurling next to a decaying trunk. The trunk is covered at the top with mossy patches. The ground underneath is covered with leaf duff and small plants, including creeping buttercup. Lady fern leaves have a feathery appearance when fully unfurled, and can be up to 5 feet high, although around here they seem to stay under 2 feet.
Spring green and beautiful decay
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Native plant lovers of the PNW may be interested in attending this lecture about backyard botanizing, or watching it later online
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A deep magenta pink five petaled salmonberry flower floats above my head amid its fresh green leaves and tall arching canes. The anthers are still closed over the pistils. Samonberry flowers vary in color, from almost white to a deep magenta pink. I just learned that salmonberries can ripen to either red or orange, which are equally uninteresting watery berries.
A rosy pink five petaled salmonberry flower floats above my head amid its fresh green leaves and tall arching canes. The anthers are still closed over the pistils. Samonberry flowers vary in color, from almost white to a deep magenta pink. I just learned that salmonberries can ripen to either red or orange, which are equally uninteresting watery berries.
Twice as pink: salmonberry flowers (Rubus spectabilis) in the Ravenna Creek ravine. They vary in color from white to magenta pink, catching the eye fluttering among the newly open leaves.
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A mound of light green to olive green leaves grows along the side of a trail. The leaves are rounded, with irregular lobes. The veins are clearly demarcated in a dark olive green. This patch is rather small, growing amid the dead tree leaves of last fall, but it is easy to see why fringecups are a popular ground cover in PNW gardens.
A mound of pretty fringecup (Tellima grandiflora) leaves by the trailside. There were flower stems with tightly closed buds extending in patches with a bit more sun.
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A couple of small clusters of pink and white huckleberry flowers bloom amid green oval,dentate and leathery leaves. The hanging flowers are urn-shaped, with delicately pink-tinged upturned petals at the bottom. You can see a hint of yellow anthers through the opening.
Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum) blooming. 'Tis the season for berry blooming. I see the salmonberries are ready to open at the first hint of warmth
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Small bright green Polypodium glycyrrhiza fern leaves grow upside down in a bright olive green moss bed on a big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) branch. You can see a profusion of mossy and lichenous tree branches in the background. This was photographed from a foot bridge over a ravine, looking straight into the crowns of the trees growing in the ravine floor.
An array of green mosses and lichen in various shades of blue to blue-green cover an apple tree branch crotch. There are flat growing shield lichen, a few branching lichens, both sturdy looking and lacy, and prickly looking moss branches. It is a medley of textures. Apple trees seem to have the best lichens and mosses.
Trouvailles: Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) on a big leaf maple(Acer macrophyllum) ; a lichen and moss bonanza.
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Kinnickkinnick, a low growing ground cover, has small tough blue-green leaves growing on orange stems. It is covered in pink urn shaped flowers, typical of the heather (Ericaceae) family.
The chartreuse and golden yellow flowers of the Mediterranean spurge are interesting . They grow in a clump at the end of a stem full of strappy blue green leaves. This close up is of a flower clump in a rocky garden full of raindrops. Each blossom looks like a wide-mouthed funnel, harboring two smaller funnels at the end of tiny stems. The first funnel has a golden yellow star shaped pistil. The other funnels are male and have a little anther structure that looks a bit like a fountain spray. Weird flowers.
Our native kinnickkinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) makes a pretty groundcover. And I really don't like the Mediterranean spurge that is so popular here, but it has interesting flowers.
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An image of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) roots growing on the side of a hill. The roots are gradually being exposed by weathering, and look a bit as if they are clinging for dear life. Doug firs are notoriously shallow rooted and are the most likely trees to fall in windy rainstorms
A young Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a mass of surface roots casually exploring the ground, with ferns, dewberries and small plants growing on top.
Roots! Clinging desperately to the side of the hill! Or casually exploring the environs.
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Osoberry blossoms form three small white clisters along a red branch marked with white lenticels. The flowers have 5 pointed petals and a cluster of light yellow anthers. The shrubby plant is growing alongside a trail in Ravenna Park, under maples and evergreens.
The rough bark of a, Scots pine looksclike craggy canyons seen from above. The scaley shapes are colored sand, red, brown and gray, and are full of flat tops, peaks and crevasses.
Trouvailles : osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis, a native) blossoms and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) bark
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The bright yellow, hood shaped spathe of a Lysichiton americanus rises above its still furled bright green leaves. Swamp lanterns are also commonly called skunk cabbage because the flower stinks in order to attract the flies and beetles it needs to pollinate it. These plants are in a boggy area covered with dead leaves. Soon the stream banks and marshy spots will be full of bright yellow "hoodies" succeeded by the plant's huge leaves.
The first swamp lantern, aka skunk cabbage, I've seen this season.
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A small cluster of bright yellow, 6 petaled, Oregon grape flowers blooms amid prickly dark green and purple leaves. There are more flower buds packed on the stem, from small and dark green to almost yellow and ready to unfold. This being a rainy day, the leaves are very wet, and a few raindrops sit on the flowers.
Bright Oregon grape flowers on a rainy day
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A very large big leaf maple grows near a neighborhood sidewalk. The trunk would require at least three or four people to ring it. Its bare branches reach up to the blue sky streaked with some clouds. You can see a few houses down the street, with some parked cars. I think this is the largest single trunk big leaf maple I have ever seen.
A mighty big leaf maple in the neighborhood (Acer macrophyllum)
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A silk tassel bush is blooming, with a cluster of long flower catkins in a light olive green hanging down from a branch, surrounded by green leaves. The catkins look as if each small frilly bell-shaped flower were growing out of the one above it. The leaves are smooth and leathery, with a wooly underside.
Silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) blooming in the park. Although it doesn't grow natively quite this far north, it thrives in our climate.
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A madrone tree has an odd trunk. The main trunk leans sharply to the right, almost parallel to the ground. The secondary trunk veers off away into a madrone thicket behind it. The tree trunks are a typical umber brown, with streaks of orange and dark brown. The leaves are at the well-branched crowns of the trunks, dark green, and glossy with rain. The scene is set on a gravelled park path with a picnic table under the trees, and shrubby under growth on either side. There is a foggy haze under the rainy sky.
A quirky madrone (Arbutus menziesii) in the park in the rain
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A branch of Pacific dewberry (Rubus ursinus) crosses the image frame against a bright white sky. The dentate leaves twist around the stem, displaying their bilateral veination in their bright green. It's a very simple high key photo.
Did I mention it's been foggy the last two days? And it's raining. Here are dewberry (Rubus ursinus) canes trained to grow overhead so I can stare at leaf veination against a white sky.
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Small dark blue berries are clustered among small, oval, glossy dark green leaves. The edible berries cling to the bushes throughout the winter, providing food for birds and other foragers.
Browsing while cruising
I check out the evergreen huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum), even in winter. They may be tiny and sour, but they are tasty. They are nice garden shrubs.
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Four small, bright red but slightly wrinkly rose hips perch on the end of a leafy branch. It's been a dry summer, and the leaves are somewhat splotchy with powdery mildew.
It's been really dry this summer, even with a few days of rain here and there. The peafruit rose (Rosa pisocarpa) hips are looking parched.
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Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) has tall spires of leafy stems topped by pink to purple flowers. Each flower contains 4 sepals, 4 petals, and 8 cream colored stamens, and a cute white pistil with four curlicues at the end. The leaves are long, lanceolate and rough textured. Large clumps of fireweed can give the effect of a purple haze in grassy prairies such as this one in Maple Leaf Park.
Bright goldenrod (Solidago lepida) has feathery panicles of small yellow daisy-like flowers on curved branches. The leaves are long, lanceolate and crowded on the flowering stem below the panicle. This goldenrod is a lovely sight in late summer amid the dry tan grasses.
Another late summer flower in the grassy prairie in Maple Leaf Park, purple Douglas aster (Symphyotrichum subspicatum) is tall, full of long leaves and covered with lavender daisy-like flowers. The external petal flowers are lavender. The flowers in the heart start out red and turn into little gold star shaped cups as they open, The buds scattered throughout the shrubby plants open over several weeks.
Late summer flowers in Maple Leaf Park prairie restoration
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A still light green hazelnut with its green cup like sheath curling back peeks out from under its leaves. The leaves are dark green, oval shaped and dentate, and have a rough, brittle texture. These are in same shape, having been chewed on by insects.
Two tan colored wild hazelnuts with their light green leafy sheath peek out from under their leaves. The leaves are dark green, oval shaped and dentate, and have a rough, brittle texture.
I found only three hazelnuts (Corylus cornuta) in the bushes...and there are lots of bushes in the understory here! #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #SeattleParks #RavennaPark #NativePlants #FruitScrolling #NativePlantsOfThePNW
A trumpet shaped large white bindweed flower glows in the lower left corner of the image as it grows against a dark fence. The flower is at the bottom of a vine with deeply shaded triangular green leaves that can be seen winding up to the right. Two unopened flower buds, furled tightly like greenish umbrellas emerging from a green calyx, are poking out from the leaves.
Hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium ssp angulata) showing off
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This close up of a few branches of stairstep or splendid feather moss shows why it is called those names. Each moss branch is spread out full of small stems of feathery leaves, the overall effect looking a bit like an ostrich feather. The feathery branches cascade down the side of the tree stump they grow on, each one separate and spread out like steps. It looks like a carpet of glowing feathers.
Stairstep moss (Hylocomium splendens), Deception Falls National Recreation Area, Washington
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Three cymes of red osier dogwood flowers cross this image diagonally. You can see the cymes are composed of numerous small 4 petaled white flowers. The leaves beneath and around the cymes are broadly oval. The venation is typical of dogwoods, curving from a large central vein upward to the edge of the leaves. Red osier dogwood stems when young are attractively red strong and flexible. They can be used in basket weaving
Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) grows abundantly in the PNW. Its masses of cymes of small white four-petaled flowers are decorative from spring through summer.
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A small six petaled white lily with three long green white spotted leaves grows on the forest floor. Its stamens have yellow pollen filled anthers and curve out slightly while the white pistil points straight up. The long stem is slightly hairy. Although bead lilies are said to spread , I didn't see anymore than one here or there
Bead lily (Clintonia uniflora), so named because it has one blue seed, also known as queen's cup or bride's bonnet blooms on the forest floor amid the mosses and ferns. Deception Falls NRA, Washington
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A couple of dark blue huckleberries sit above abundant thin, oval, bright green leaves. The berries are small, a bit shiny, and have a concave flower scar. You can spot a few more berries hiding in the background.
Thin leaf huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) bushes don't produce heavily but the berries are fine. I like the concavity in the berries which looks like it is stitched. It usually grow in the mountains
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A corymb of white papery flowers is the focus of this photo. The flowers look like small ruffled balls sitting atop a slightly fuzzy blue-green stem. The darker blue-green leaves are narrow, about 2 to 5 inches long, and covered with white hairs. You can see golden brown grasses with more pearly everlasting plants scattered about in the background.
A patch of pearly everlastings (Anaphalis margaritacea) among the grasses, Maple Leaf Park restoration, a lovely sight to come upon if you #GetOutside
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A window box displays a small planting of female dewberries. A trio of quite small (but delicious!) black berries occupies center stage amid the green, 3 part compound leaves. A few unripe red berries lurk in the outer corners. My daughter carefully culled this female fruit bearing plant out from the brambly patch in the outback, which is very male from what I can see.
Yummy timeline cleanse : native blackberries aka dewberries in a window box. Thought I would share a photo before they were gone (Rubus ursinus)
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A couple of Western bunchberry flowers highlight the forest floor at Deception Falls National Recreation Area. The four white brackets of the flowers look like stars, with the purplish flowers clustered in the center. These flowers will form bunches of red berries later in the season. The flowers sit in the middle of whorls of 6 oval, heavily veined green leaves. The forest floor also is covered in moss and other herbaceous plants.
Western bunchberry (Cornus unalaschkensis) gracing the forest floor, Deception Falls NRA, Washington
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