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#nativeplants

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The nootka roses are flowering!

We planted them many years ago, in a bare area with terribly bad soil, consisting mostly of gravel. And yet, they grew. They had mostly vegetative growth, but this year they have so many flowers!

From a barren alley-side, to a perfumed corner full of color and pollinators 🥰

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Thick rose bush by an area with sparse grass. The bottom half of the rose bush is full of light-pink, delicate roses with only one row of petals.
Close up of one of the roses, with a bee in the center. The petals are different shades of pink, the center of the rose is pale yellow and the bee is black, with large pollen sacks on its legs.
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Eugene Parnell

Oxalis oregana, or redwood sorrel, is in bloom. A very useful groundcover for shady places, it's native to the Pacific coast of NA from Southern BC down to the Northern California redwood forests. There are several strains of this plant in cultivation. This one is 'Klamath Ruby'; it's evergreen (some are not) and a very aggressive spreader. I keep it confined to closed off beds. It grows in dry shade where little else will. #gardening #nativeplants #PNW #bloomScrolling

A drift of small green plants growing out of a rockery beside a tree trunk. They look like clover, with three-lobed leaves, each of which has a faint stripe down its center. A few small flowers are blooming; they are white.
Closer view of the same plant as in previous photo. The leaf undersides are a bronze-red, and up close the six petaled flowers have tiny pink pinstripes on them.
The same plant as previous photos, but this time seen in a larger stone edged flower bed where it forms an expansive carpet beneath a devils club plant, a small tree-like shrub with enormous leaves and a green flower spike. Behind is an ivy covered fence.
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Eugene Parnell

Hiking Mt Dickerman contd. 1-2: I love this plant: Arctic butterbur, or colt's foot. Petasites frigidus var. palmatum. The leaves emerge later but they're large and mayapple-like. 3: invasive weeds by the side of the path-- they are carried in on shoes and animal fur. Please check your shoes and pets for seeds before visiting. Native ecosystems are vulnerable everywhere-- this one is more intact than most, let's keep it that way. 9/9
#hiking #nativeplants #PNW #getoutside #mountains #WA

A small flower by the side of a path. The stem is thick like asparagus and the flowers themselves a cluster of small aster like blooms, all white.
A closer view of the flower from previous photo.
Common weeds and n the gravel on the path.
Another majestic view of Big Four Mountain in the distance and the boardwalk leading through the marsh to it.
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Eugene Parnell

Hiking Mt Dickerman contd. Every time I come up this way, I stop at the Big Four Ice Caves picnic area, because I love the little wetland here. There's a boardwalk across it and an easy hike up to the ice caves-- an avalanche debris pile (a ginormous pile of snow) with holes carved through it by melt water. I was far more excited about the skunk cabbages. They grow in the water and smell like their name. 8/9
#hiking #nativeplants #PNW #getoutside #mountains #WA

A boardwalk stretching into the distance. It crosses over a kind of march with long grass and willows. On the left of the boardwalk is an alder tree that is half dead and covered in lichen. In the distance looms an immense snow covered mountain peak.
In the grassy marsh, dozens of large-leaved plants with yellow flowers protrude from the grass.
Close view of a skunk cabbage many. It has immense leaves, two feet long, very shiny and tropical looking. The flower is a yellow spathe, like a wrapper, enclosing an oblong thing that looks like a corn cob, covered in tiny flowers.
Another closeup of a skunk cabbage. The leaves look like oversized glossy Romain lettuce. The flowers look like old fashioned lanterns, thus the other common name, swamp lantern.
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Eugene Parnell

Hiking Mt Dickerman contd. Tough going getting to the top, even with spikes and trekking poles. But the view from the top is unparalleled-- Glacier Peak, Mt Baker, Shuksan, even the Olympics all visible at the same time and Big Four Mountain is right in your face. Photo 3: the North side of the peak is a sheer drop, and you can see the snow cornice that's built up over it. Maybe don't step on that part. 7/9
#hiking #nativeplants #PNW #getoutside #mountains #WA

View of Glacier Peak, an immense, 10,000+ ft mountain from the top of Dickerman, and several other peaks to the right which are nearer. The foreground is all snow.
View of Big Four mountain and several other peaks from the top of Dickerman. Hemlock trees in the foreground are wizened and small and bent by snow. The distant peaks are all snow capped. Cirrus clouds overhead
View of more peaks from the top of Dickerman. The foreground shows a snowy flat area and a snow cornice-- where the crusty snow forms a diving board like extension out over a sheer cliff.
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Hiking Mt Dickerman contd. This plant caught my eye because it looks like an Asian species I have in my garden. This is Prosartes hookeri, or American fairy bells, close relative of the Disporum genus (Fairy bells: 'Night Heron', 'Green Giant' are popular cultivars). It's not real common. Mt. Dickerman is right on the edge of the Perry Creek drainage which has an unusual diversity of native plants. 5/9
#hiking #nativeplants #PNW #getoutside #mountains #WA

A small delicate plant growing on the forest floor. It has limp, white flowers that hang from pendulous stems like small bells. The yellow stamens are visible.
Second view of the same plant from above. The main stems are kind of zig zag, with leaves much like a false Solomon's seal, but wavy on their edges.
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Eugene Parnell

Hiking Mt Dickerman contd. Another species of false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum stellatum), this one will have starry white flowers in a few weeks. And one of the commonest forest floor plants here: Mahonia nervosa, or short Oregon grape (there are two other species of Oregon grape, a "tall one" and a "sunny area one"). Those yellow flowers become purple berries, edible but horrifyingly sour. 4/9
#hiking #nativeplants #PNW #getoutside #mountains #WA

A few green plants growing out of the leaf litter on the forest floor. Each has a long graceful stem with alternating long pointed leaves: each leaf has elegant parallel veins. At the stem tip of each is a flower bud. They resemble a common garden ima t called Solomon's seal.
An evergreen plant with leathery tough leaves shaped a bit like holly leaves, with snap spines on their edges. It grows from a pile of bark debris. From its center is a stalk of tiny yellow flowers like small pom-poms.
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