Friday, April 10, 2015

April 2015 Woodland Wildflowers

On April 6...


still lots of Cardamine blooming


almost blooming and lots of them: Maianthemum dilatatum, false lily of the valley

Columbia (tiger) Lily still going up, no flowers in sight yet




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On April 10...

Disporum hookeri, Hooker's Fairybells.


Lots of Candy Flowers blooming now,  Claytonia sibirica


Big Leaf Maples in flower



Oxalis acetosella is just starting to bloom




Not sure about this one...
Tellima grandiflora?



Black Twinberry, Lonicera involucrata



lots of trillium, both Western, as above, and sessile in bloom still


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On April 12, more  Fairybells blooming...



Hooker's Fairybells: Disporum hookeri

Still lots of bleeding hearts...

Dicentra formosa


And yellow wood violets...

Viola glabella







And sessile trillium...


Trillium albidum



Just beginning to show blue a few western bluebells... with zillions more to open.

Mertensia platyphylla

Carpeting the ground in places now is Pacific Waterleaf...Hydrophyllum tenuipes


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April 20
                                                       Fringe Cups: Tellima grandiflora



Fringe Cups turning purple with age

Western bluebells: Mertensia platyphylla

aging Western Trillium: Trillium ovatum

Salmonberry: Rubus spectabilis

Vine Maple:  Acer circinatum


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April 29


Dicentra formosa, Bleeding Hearts, just bloom on and on...

A few more Western Bluebells opening

Lots of Fringe Cups (Tellima grandiflora)

Elderberry:  Sambucus racemosa

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.

Tolmiea menziesii

Tolmiea menziesii

More Fairybells blooming

Again, Howard Bruner identifited this as Angled Bittercress, Cardamine angulata. The Cardamines defeat me.




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