Canary Violet ~ Viola praemorsa
Small Bluebells ~ Mertensia longiflora
Heart-leaf Springbeauty ~ Claytonia cordifolia
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April 22, 2017
April 21, 2017
Decorated by the morning dew
This year there are very few scouring-rush showing up and they are very small but they are decorated every morning just as they always are in spring.
Scouring-rush Horsetail, Common Scouring-rush, Dutch Rush, Prairie Scouring-rush ~ Equisetum hyemale
April 19, 2017
Munson Creek Trilliums
Today a friend and I hiked up Munson Creek to visit my favorite place to see trilliums. This was my 7th annual visit there and only one day later than usual. This year they were not yet at the peak of their bloom, but I brought back a few photos anyway. These are Pacific Trilliums ~ Trillium Ovatum.
April 18, 2017
Glacier Lilies ~ Avalanche Lilies
Glacier Lily ~ Erythronium grandiflorum
(And a somewhat rare white Shooting Star)
April 15, 2017
Spring Wildflowers
Eddy Peak in the Cherry Peak Roadless Area photographed from the Munson Creek trail head.
One of my favorite days of Spring usually comes on April 18th and for years on that day I have hiked two miles up the Munson Creek trail to an area where there is a large area of Trilliums in bloom. This year it has been cool and rainy with few sunny days and I suspected that the trilliums would be late so today I checked at the footbridge near the trail head where they bloom earlier and found they are just beginning. My hike will be put off another week or so because my favorite area is two thousand feet higher in elevation.
Pacific Trillium, (trillium ovatum)
Several other wildflowers have begun to appear now too:
Yellow Bell, (fritillaria pudica)
Dark-throated Shooting Star, (dodecatheon pulchellum)
