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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Tony Willis on July 20, 2010, 01:14:23 PM

Title: Washington and Oregon
Post by: Tony Willis on July 20, 2010, 01:14:23 PM: We started in Seattle and crossed the Cascades to stay a few days in Leavenworth. An interesting town which was going broke after it lost its railroad and so re-invented itself as a Bavarian look alike. We looked at the woodland plants on the way there and then at a variety of habitats from woodland to hot dry screes on trips out.WE saw dozens of different species and so I am choosing a representative selection to show

Cornus canadensis
Maianthemum dilitatum
Rubus parviflorus
Lilium columbianum
Platanthera dilitata
Lonicera ciliosa
linnaea borealis
Chimophylla umbellata
Castilleja sp
Aquilegia formosa
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: Tony Willis on July 20, 2010, 01:28:15 PM: Some more both woodland and scree
Pyrola asarifolia
Viola glabella
Asarum caudatum
Erythronium grandiflorum
Lewisia columbianum
Lewisia tweedyi
Mimulus nanus
Phlox diffusa
Zigadenus elegans
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: Tony Willis on July 20, 2010, 01:30:19 PM: And finally from here on the way to our next destination,Enterprise in Oregon
Calochortus tolmei
Calochortus macrocarpus
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: Tony Willis on July 21, 2010, 07:43:22 PM: Moving on to Enterprise in the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon a visit to Mt Howard was very sparse
with
Phlox hoodii(possibly)

then a visit to Hurricane Creek

Clintonia uniflora
Aquilegia flavescens
Castilleja sp
Clematis columbiana
Calypso bulbosa
Cypripedium montanum which was the star plant
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: David Nicholson on July 21, 2010, 08:07:51 PM: Smashing sets of pictures Tony, love those Calochortus, and the Phlox, and the Lewisias. Well, loved them all really.
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: angie on July 21, 2010, 08:22:05 PM: Tony there are some real beauties there, liked the Calypso bulbosa 8). It would be lovely to see all these plants in the natural settings.

Angie :)
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: ian mcenery on July 26, 2010, 02:11:30 AM: Good trip Tony then with lots of interest. Love the Cyp montanum lovely plant. I had it once but sadly no more :'(.
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: cohan on August 05, 2010, 12:56:01 AM: lots of gems in there..i guess this was some time ago? i suppose various elevations, so its hard to compare blooming times--Calypso flowers in may/june here, but pyrola much later, for example..
Title: Re: Washington and Oregon
Post by: Tony Willis on August 05, 2010, 04:48:45 PM: We arrived in Seattle on the 29th June and left two weeks later. The calypso was blooming with the pyrola.It was at the end of its season and the pyrola was just beginning.