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Acer macrophyllum

bark

blooming

fruits forming

Big-leaf maple

Alnus rubra

in bloom, the small cones are the female flowers, the catkins the male flowers

Red Alder

Serviceberry

Columbine

Wild Ginger

lawn daisy, English daisy

Berberis nervosa




in bloom

inflorescence

Dwarf Oregon grape

Capsella bursa-pastoris

gone to seed and beyond

a young plant, just beginning to bolt

clasping leaf

flowers, stem and seed pod

Shepherd's purse

Claytonia perfoliata

a whole stalk of flowers

(this may be a different variety)

the fruits of the variety with the long inflorescence

Claytonia siberica

Candy flower

Digitaria purpurea


see the stamens?

Foxglove

Conium maculatum

sometimes the purple spotting on the stem is rather slight.

the umbel in full bloom

Corylus cornutus

hairs on the back of the leaf

dry husk

the female flower - this can be seen sometime between December and March, usually

The male catkins

Western hazelnut, or filbert

Hawthorn - I think this is a different species that the one on the field trip


Notice the thorns

Equisetum telematia

The reproductive shoots, in early spring.

These are really juicy, by the way

Close up of the reproductive parts

Young vegetative stalks - these are separate from the reproductive stalks, and come later.

A bit older


Giant horsetail

Galium aparine

those round things are the fruits

notice the little hooks

Cleavers, or Bedstraw