Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Flora

For the final post on our Heybrook Lookout hike last week, following are just a handful of the flora that populated the forest we hiked through!

Wild Yellow Violets

Oregon Grape

What?!?! Wild Oregon Violets?

Salal

Purple Trilliums

White Trilliums
Some of the trillium leaves were larger than my hand!

One of many types of mosses, with bitty flowers!

Deer Ferns

Sword Ferns

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Washington State Animal :-)
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

love those banana slugs :-P
Steve says Trillium turn purple as they age...true?

Beanball said...

In western North America, a typical species is Trillium ovatum (Western Trillium) also with white flowers, that slowly turn into a shade of purple in the middle of spring.

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