Mushrooms

One day in the spring, after a little rain, a yellow blob appeared in our barkdust path. Research tells me it is Dog Vomit Slime Mold, a very unlovely name for a pretty but inedible mushroom, Fuligo septica. That has inspired me to start a new section under wildflowers, although mushrooms are not wildflowers. Neither are trees but I seem to have posts about all sorts of flora other than flowers in this blog. By the next day, this slime mold turned dark but I forgot to get another photo... maybe next time one appears in our bark dust path. Barkdust, apparently, is where it came from.

Fuligo septica

In the fall, more mushrooms appeared. Here are Slippery Jacks (identified by Barbara Millikan), numerous in the grassy path in the ponderosa pine section of our arboretum. Barbara says they are edible but not choice as they are slimy when cooked, but they can be dried, powdered, and used as flavoring.

 The amazing conks below just keep making babies and growing...

Blackberries

We have all 3 wild blackberries here, including the native Pacific, which is the trailing blackberry that trips me in the woods; the Himalayan with its invasive, thickets with delicious berries; and the Evergreen with its finely dissected leaves, also invasive but not as overwhelming as the Himalayas. I took photos of all 3 growing together along our lane to the pump pasture. the back side of the Himalaya leaves is light.

Evergreen upper left, himalaya center, Pacific lower

back side of 5 leaflet Himalayas

back side of native 3 leaflet Pacific

5 leaflet Evergreen (highly dissected leaflets)

5 leaflet Himalaya

3 leaflet Pacific (only native blackberry)

Pacific in its usual ground crawling position

Flowering Bushes/Trees

Oceanspray, Holodiscus discolor,  is now in full bloom on our farm. (July 7, 2017)

May/June 2015 and June 2019 wildflowers

Added photos from June 23, 2019, at bottom of this post.

Have been too busy to keep up with the wildflower photos. Will try to add to these as time allows. Some are not native.

 Common Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, was originally from Europe but now naturalized in Oregon. These photos were taken by our creek on May 31.

Oregon Sunflower or Arrowleaf Balsamroot, Balsamorhiza sagittata
blooming near our swamp on June 21, between swamp and horse field.

Four photos below taken on June 28 in the horse field and area between swamp and horse field

Goldenrod and Oxeye Daisies

Checkermallow

Parentucellia viscosa

Prunella, Oxeye Daisy and Birdsfoot Trefoil

On June 23, 2019, took photos of these additional flowers...

Birdsfoot Trefoil

Cooley's Hedge Nettle, Stachys cooleyae

Hedge Nettle

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.