On April 6...
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| still lots of Cardamine blooming |
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| almost blooming and lots of them: Maianthemum dilatatum, false lily of the valley |
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| Columbia (tiger) Lily still going up, no flowers in sight yet |
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On April 10...
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| Disporum hookeri, Hooker's Fairybells. |
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| Lots of Candy Flowers blooming now, Claytonia sibirica |
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| Big Leaf Maples in flower |
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| Oxalis acetosella is just starting to bloom |
Not sure about this one...
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Tellima grandiflora?
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Black Twinberry, Lonicera involucrata
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| lots of trillium, both Western, as above, and sessile in bloom still |
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On April 12, more Fairybells blooming...
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| Hooker's Fairybells: Disporum hookeri |
Still lots of bleeding hearts...
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| Dicentra formosa |
And yellow wood violets...
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| Viola glabella |
And sessile trillium...
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Trillium albidum
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Just beginning to show blue a few western bluebells... with zillions more to open.
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| Mertensia platyphylla |
Carpeting the ground in places now is Pacific Waterleaf...
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
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April 20
Fringe Cups: Tellima grandiflora
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| Fringe Cups turning purple with age |
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| Western bluebells: Mertensia platyphylla |
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| aging Western Trillium: Trillium ovatum |
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| Salmonberry: Rubus spectabilis |
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| Vine Maple: Acer circinatum |
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April 29
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| Dicentra formosa, Bleeding Hearts, just bloom on and on... |
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| A few more Western Bluebells opening |
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| Lots of Fringe Cups (Tellima grandiflora) |
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| Elderberry: Sambucus racemosa |
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| just beginning Maianthemum racemosum, False Solomon's Seal |
Thanks to Howard Bruner (again) for identifying the flower below as youth-on-age, Tolmiea menziesii. There's no end to things I don't know.
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| Tolmiea menziesii |
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| Tolmiea menziesii |
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| More Fairybells blooming |
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| Again, Howard Bruner identifited this as Angled Bittercress, Cardamine angulata. The Cardamines defeat me. |
