We are lucky to live in a community which puts aside much wild land for the population to enjoy. We live just minutes away from a forest with many trails in different directions going for miles. One could get lost in there for hours. I take my dog for walks in there. There are some areas with old growth forest which have magnificent trees and many wild flowers.
I found some nice varieties up there, some are even considered rare.
Once spring hits I try to hit he trails frequently to look what is blooming and I often take pictures.
Let me share some of our beautiful Oregon Wildflowers with you.
Columbia Windflower - Anemone deltoidea
Red Columbine - Aquilegia formosa
Hairy Rockcress - Arabis hirsuta
Elegant Cat's Ear - Calochortus elegans
Fairyslipper Orchid - Calypso bulbosa
Pacific Bleeding Heart - Dicentra formosa
Rattlesnake orchid - Goodyera oblongifolia
Orange Honeysuckle - Lonicera ciliosa
Yellow leaf Iris - Iris chrysophylla
Toughleaf Iris - Iris tenax
Nine-leaf Lomatium - Lomatium triternatum
Nutall's Larkspur - Delphinium Nuttallii
maybe: Longleaf Phlox - Phlox longifolia
Nuttalli dogwood - Cornus nuttallii
Oregon Fawn Lili - Erythronium oregonum
Tall Oregon Grape - Mahonia aquifolium
Pink Fawn Lili - Erythronium revolutum
Common Camash - Camassia quamash
Leafybract Aster - Aster foliaceus
Queen's Cup Lili - Clintonia uniflora
Oregon Checker Mallow - Sidalcea oregana
Western Starflower - Trientalis borealis subsp. latifolia
I hope you enjoyed walking through my woods with
me enjoying our beautiful wild flowers?
2 comments:
Thank you so much for posting the beautiful photographs. I found a unique wildflower that I had never seen while hiking this last weekend and wanted to know what it was.
Thanks to your site, I found it.
Elegant Cat's Ear!!!
That really is a nice shot of the Elegant Cat's Ear. That particular wildflower is also sometimes called the Mariposa Lily.
The leaves in the background of the lovely calochortus elegans (tolmiei?) specimen, however, are another native plant-- and one that most folks will want to steer clear of:
Toxicodendron diversilobum.
That's right; "Poison Oak," to the unwary. To anyone susceptible, a single brush with one of those leaves can lead to weeks of misery. :)
The foliage of the calochortus is fairly unassuming and looks like countless other grasses when it isn't in bloom.
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