Turtle Posted March 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 photographed march 7, 2010 @ undisclosed location in clark county washington. :shrug: :secret: Rubus spectabilis - WTU Herbarium Image Collection salmonberry - Rubus spectabilismarch 18, 2010whipple creek parkclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 i have a new secret forest to explorest. lots of old friends, and perchance some new. :secret: :shrug: id keys for this trillium are both the leaves and flower on stalks. i suspect the lobed-leaf plant just behind the trilliums is sitka vallerian. so we goes. . . . . Trillium ovatum - WTU Herbarium Image Collection western trillium -Trillium ovatum (aka pacific trillium, coast trillium, white trillium, western wake-robin)march 18, 2010whipple creek parkclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 woo hoo!! :):evil: found this rare trillium budding in a secret location. :secret: i have had some problems id'ing these over the years, and it's not even listed in my washington wildflower fieldguide. besides the western trillium in the last post, the fieldguide lists "sessile" trillium, which i find is aka "giant trillium", & both demoninated Trillium chloropetalum. however, and apparently, the flowers of giant-trillium are never white, and what's more i now find small-flowered trillium has been historically called "Trillium chloropetalum". :shrug: Comments: This species will key to Trillium chloropetalum in Hitchcock and Cronquist 1973. http://www1.dnr.wa.gov/nhp/refdesk/fguide/pdf/trpa.pdf anyway, i will get some shots of the open bloom(s) when they...erhm....open. :phones: (click thumbnails to open full-size images in new window.)bud detail: stem detail: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 it was raining today so i decided to take a walk & have a look for the rare small-flowered trillium in a public place.:) found it! just one specimen for my trouble though; about 1/2 mile down from the north terminus and 30 feet east of the heritage trail, clark county washington. :phones: Lacamas Heritage Trail YouTube - Rare Small-flowered Trillium - Trillium parviflorum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWT7tdgQ44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 many of these blooming along the wooded banks of lacamas creek adjoining the lacamas heritage trail. i'd say definitely a kittentail, genus Synthyris. i suspect the species is reniformis. i see S. missurica as another possibility. :phones: thoughts? beautiful little things. :) ;) Synthyris reniformis - WTU Herbarium Image Collection snow queen - Synthyris reniformis (aka round-leaved kittentails)march 12, 2010lacamas heritage trailclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 this little thing is... verry hard to photograph. not only is it small, the sepals & petals are extremely short-lived. gotta get what you can while you can though, and this is what i got in my can. Ranunculus uncinatus - WTU Herbarium Image Collection Flowers: Pedicles single-flowered, up to 6 cm. long; sepals 5, spreading to reflexed, 1.5-3 mm. long, quickly deciduous; petals 5, yellow, 2-3 mm .long; nectary scale ... woodland buttercup - Ranunculus uncinatus (aka little buttercup)march 16, 2010lacamas heritage trailclark county washington - native*petals (the two left :rant:) measure 2mm long.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 went walkabout with a friendly raccoon; got some new stuff. we have a number of yellow violets in washington but i think this one is the pioneer violet. (possibly evergreen violet?) by all means please inform me if i have erred in my id. :shrug: :shrug: :D :phones: Viola glabella - WTU Herbarium Image Collection pioneer violet - Viola glabellamarch 18, 2010whipple creek parkclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 found a group of 70 or more of these growing in a running rivulet. i suspect they are a species of buttercup, but i find no good matches in my field guides. :love: :( :eek: :eek2: :hihi: ideas? :boy_hug: :) buttercups maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 moving on thens, this is the last flower photo from the 18th walkabout. while the new & few leaves don't look like what i expect for common hawthorn, the singular style is definitive. this is an introduced species, and our other 2 native hawthorns have 5 styles, and so five pips, rather than the one of common, or oneseed, hawthorn. :shrug: Crataegus monogyna - WTU Herbarium Image Collection...Flowers: Inflorescence a broad, dense, flat-topped cluster; flowers 8-15 mm. wide, the petals white; style 1. ... common hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna (aka oneseed hawthorn)march 18, 2010whipple creek parkclark county washington - introduced freeztar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 went walkabout with a friendly raccoon; got some new stuff. we have a number of yellow violets in washington but i think this one is the pioneer violet. (possibly evergreen violet?) by all means please inform me if i have erred in my id. :naughty: :D :bouquet: It's hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like the violet in your picture is puberulent. Hmmm...I see both suspects are listed as puberulent by the herbarium, so no help there. Perhaps the seed is the best distinguisher for this species. :shrug: Though, judging from many pictures, I would lean in favor of pioneer violet from a purely internet-image-search-macroscopic-subjection. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 found a group of 70 or more of these growing in a running rivulet. i suspect they are a species of buttercup, but i find no good matches in my field guides. :bouquet: ;) :D ideas? :shrug: :naughty: Buttercups have very distinct leaves. I don't see any buttercup leaves in the photos (lots of violets). Do you have a shot of the leaves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 It's hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like the violet in your picture is puberulent. Hmmm...I see both suspects are listed as puberulent by the herbarium, so no help there. Perhaps the seed is the best distinguisher for this species. Though, judging from many pictures, I would lean in favor of pioneer violet from a purely internet-image-search-macroscopic-subjection. ;) roger. the leaves of evergreen violet described as leathery; my specimen, not so. also, evergreen violet has beards on the lateral pair of petals; my specimen not. pioneer , aka spring, violet it is then! :naughty: found a group of 70 or more of these growing in a running rivulet. i suspect they are a species of buttercup, but i find no good matches in my field guides. ideas? Buttercups have very distinct leaves. I don't see any buttercup leaves in the photos (lots of violets). Do you have a shot of the leaves? erhm...the second shot is a shot of the leaves. (post #93 ) let me look if i have another....processing....accessing....drinking....buzzing....whirring... :lol: nope; that's my best shot of the leaves. note my finger for scale; it is...erhm...finger size. :doh: ;) i put the flower width at about 60 mm (~2 1/2 inches). i don't see anything violet-y about this one. i agree the leaves don't look buttercup-y either, which is what has me stumped inasmuch as the flower screams buttercup. :D :D hold on & let me get a closeup of the bloom that i haven't posted. :shrug: brb . . . . okaly dokaly. might want some dark glasses on. :bouquet: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Ok, I see the leaves now. They are clasping and toothy. I have no idea other than to say that it is not a buttercup. I'll see if I can find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Ok, I see the leaves now. They are clasping and toothy. I have no idea other than to say that it is not a buttercup. I'll see if I can find out. roger. i appreciate it. note however that not all the leaves are clasping. while the flower stalks appear to have a clasping leaf, the other leaves there are heart-shaped & terminal on a petiole. so we goes. :bouquet: :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 while we puzzle over the id of the mystery 5-petalled-yellow-flower-growing-in-a-stream, i thought i'd put up an older photo of one of our native hawthorns as counterpoint to the introduced species i posted in #94. while i can only see 4 stamens, there are five, and clearly at least, not one. :lol: i shot this may 2008 in lechtenberg park, clark county washington. :shrug: Crataegus douglasii - WTU Herbarium Image Collection black hawthorn - Crataegus douglasii (aka Douglas' hawthorn)may 2008lechtenberg parkclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 i returned to the lacamas heritage trail and tracked down 3 "clonal groups" of the rare small-flowered trillium. :( i have more information on the rarity (fewer than 100 instances known globally. :Alien:), habit, etc. in the lechtenberg park thread on this species in posts #425 & #426. >> Environmental Study of Lechtenberg Park the group below is growing under a garry oak tree, and in association with fringecup - Tellima grandiflora. (6" divisions on scale stick in foreground :hyper:) some individuals have no bloom; not sure if they broke off or if they never were there? :QuestionM small-flowered trillium - Trillium parviflorum Soukupmarch 26, 2010lacamas heritage trailclark county washington - native (state ranked Sensitive) clonal group of ~. 20 individuals: detail of a bloom: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 Ribes sanguineum - WTU Herbarium Image Collection red-flowering currant - Ribes sanguineummarch 26, 2010lacamas heritage trailclark county washington - native Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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