
Tygh Creek Trail, Badger Creek Wilderness Area, OR, 6/2017
The Diamond or Common clarkia, showed up near its close relative the Elkhorns Clarkia,
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August 31, 2017 | Categories: Cascades, Columbia Gorge West, East of Cascades, evening primrose/willowherb, June, Low Elevation, Mid Elevation, Oregon, pink, Southern Oregon / Northern California, Willamette Valley | Tags: Buckhorn Wilderness, flower, tygh creek, wildflower | Leave a comment

Rattlesnake Dance Trail, Yakima Canyon, WA. 5/2017
We found these lovely, endemic penstemons on an impromptu hike just south of Ellensburg, WA, on our way back to Portland from Leavenworth this past spring. (more…)
August 28, 2017 | Categories: Columbia Gorge East, East of Cascades, figwort / lousewort, grasslands, grasslands/prarie, June, Low Elevation, May, Mid Elevation, purple/blue, Unique to Northwest, Washington | Tags: flower, Thomas Hart Benton, wildflower, Yakima River | 1 Comment

Yakutania Point Trail, Skagway, AK, 7/2017.
We found this odd non-green plant in a couple locations in flood-prone Cottonwood-Alder forests outside of Skagway, Alaska. (more…)
August 20, 2017 | Categories: Alaska, broomrape, brown, dry open woods, July, June, Low Elevation, saprophytic/mycotrophic, SE Alaska, Unique to Northwest | Tags: Alaska, Flowers, skagway, wildflower | Leave a comment

Tygh Creek Trail, Badger Creek Wilderness, OR, 6/2017.
After seeing these beauties in books (the latin Pulchella means beautiful), we’d long dreamed of finding them in the wild. (more…)
August 17, 2017 | Categories: dry open woods, East of Cascades, evening primrose/willowherb, June, Oregon, pink, rocky slopes, Unique to Northwest | Tags: Badger Creek, flower, tygh creek, wildflower, william clark | 1 Comment

Union Creek Trail, William O. Douglas Wilderness, WA, 7/2014.
Although perhaps the least showy of the pyrolas, the tell-tale curved stalk is endearing when repeated in a grouping, explaining it’s common name of sidebells or one-sided wintergreen. (more…)
August 13, 2017 | Categories: Alaska, All Northwest, Alpine, August, green, heath, July, Low Elevation, Mid Elevation, shaded forests, Washington | Tags: flower, skagway, Sturgil Landing Trail, Wildflowers, wintergreen | 1 Comment

Deer Mountain Trail, Ketchikan, AK, 7/2017.
Some books put this plant in the Pyrola (wintergreen) genus, while others give it it’s own: Moneses. (more…)
August 6, 2017 | Categories: Alaska, Alpine, August, Cascades, Coastal, heath, July, June, Low Elevation, Mid Elevation, Olympics, shaded forests, Southern Oregon / Northern California, white | Tags: Alaska, flower, Haida, ketchikan, Kwakwaka'wakw, Lower Dewey Lake, skagway, wildflower | 1 Comment