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March 9 mystery lily that seldom gets to bloom... maybe this year... alas on March 16 the leaves had been eaten off under the ground and were lying, wilting, on top. A few small ones remained intact. On March 19, all were eaten off but there were these clustered tiny things in the same area that may be more trying to come up? Or something else? March 24, all gone.
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| Cardamine sp. |
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| Cardamine sp. (I've given up sorting out the Cardamines) |
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| oxalis not yet in bloom |
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| Cow parsnip young leaves |
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| wood violets |
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| bleeding heart leaves |
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| Bigleaf Maple seedlings are everywhere |
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Columbia Lily just appearing on March 9. This is the one that takes forever to reach blooming height, when it doesn't get eaten by slugs.
On March 19, it was higher and several more in the neighborhood were poking up. |
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| Sessile Trillium or Mottled Trillium, Trillium chloropetalum, not yet blooming |
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| trillium "grove" |
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| These mottled trillium are everywhere |
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| another trillium "grove" |
On March 19, the first (and one of few) Western Trillium was open.
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| Cardamine sp. |
On March 16, the first Skunk Cabbage in full bloom...
Also on March 16, more Cardamine...
Finally, on March 19, I found a 5 petalled flower, some sort of Miner's Lettuce, I presume. Claytonia or Montia. It had lots of basal long petioled leaves creating a whorl of leaves far from the very long stemmed flowers. Update: thanks to Howard Bruner for the identification: This is Montia sibirica, Candy Flower. I think he has told me this in the past.
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| Montia sibirica, Candy Flower |
March 24, first sessile trillium open
More western trilliums open that day...
And the first Bleeding Heart flowers...
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| Dicentra formosa, Pacific Bleeding Heart |
On March 24, the Oregon Grape was in full bloom
On March 27, more Sessile Trilliums...
more bleeding hearts...
and lots of cardamine...
