Some Wildflowers (and fungi) of the Pacific Northwest
Traveling back out to the site of the lovely Drosera rotundifolia patch last Saturday gave another opportunity to snap some photos of Oregon’s beautiful flora. Here’s what we saw:
Clintonia uniflora, or Queen's cup lily, produces one blue berry-like fruit that gives the plant its other common name: the blue-bead lily.
A Lilium washingtonianum, or Cascade lily, shows off its anthers
A Lupinus polyphyllus, or Large-leaved lupine, from the pea family
Spirea densiflora, or Subalpine spirea, a variety of Hardhack
A single Hypopitys monotropa, or Pinesap. Breaking down the scientific name of pinesap into its Latin roots helps explain what it is - "Hypopitys" becomes hypos (beneath) and pitys (trees), and "monotropa" uses the root word mono, or one. Pinesap: a plant that grows beneath trees and has flowers that all face one way.
A pretty, but unknown species
Platanthera dilatata, or White bog orchid
Coral mushroom
A small conk on a rotting log
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