A collection of flora from the pacific wonderland.

Archive for June 26, 2014

Windflower (Anemone deltoidea)

Rainy Lake Road, Columbia Gorge, OR, 6/2014.

Rainy Lake Road, Columbia Gorge, OR, 6/2014.

The genus name comes from the Greek anemos, meaning “wind”, so technically all anemones are “wind flowers,”  but this is the only western variety that is usually called by that name.  (more…)