White Water Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis)
Twin Peaks Trail, Mill Creek Wilderness, Ochoco National Forest, OR, 6/2021.
This aquatic buttercup, which is native to most of Europe and western North America and North Africa, was new to us. (more…)
Three-leaf lewisia (Lewisia triphylla)
Lookout Mountain Trail, Ochoco NF, OR 6/2023.
We’re happy to post yet another Lewisia species! In this case the small Three-leaf Lewisia, L. triphylla. (more…)
Bird’s-foot Trefoil (Hosackia oblongifolia, H. pinnata, & H. gracilis)
H. oblongifolia, Park Creek Trail, Shasta-Lassen NF. 7/2023.
Relatives of the common garden pea, native and non-native Trefoils are abundant in the pacific northwest woods. The three native varieties we’ve seen are from the Hosackia genus: (more…)
Narrow-leaf & Snapdragon Skullcaps (Scutellaria angustifolia & S. antirrhinoides)
Wildcat Camp, Ochoco National Forest, 6/2021.
We saw these purple Skullcaps recently in two different places we were camping recently (more…)
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