Botany Outing Report: K’omoks Estuary, May 18, 2015

Special Plants seen: Henderson’s Checker Mallow (rare, not yet in bloom), Seaside plantain, Indian paint brush, Pretty shooting star, Meadow and straight beaked buttercup, Northern rice root, and western St. Johns wort

Camas & Paintbrush

Camas & Paintbrush

Trees: huge Sitka spruce, alder, Red Cedar, Crabapple, Mountain Ash, Black Hawthorne, Bitter Cherry

Northern Rice Root

Northern Rice Root

Shrubs: Sweet gale, Thimble Berry, Salmon Berry, Pacific Nine Bark, Twin Berry, Snowberry, Gooseberry

Pretty Shootingstar

Pretty Shootingstar

Other Plants: Sword and bracken fern, False lily of the valley, Dock, Trailing and Himalayan Blackberry, coltsfoot, Skunk Cabbage, Bald Hip Rose, Cow Parsnip, Horsetail, Bullrush, camas , Silverweed, Siberian miners lettuce, Ribwort Plantain, Seaside Arrow grass, Queen Ann’s Lace, Twisted stalk

Estuary of Flowers

Estuary of Flowers

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