It's still early in the season for the rest of our wildflowers. But they're coming!
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| At the base of a stump, a patch of false lily-of-the-valley leaves. At the top, a salmonberry sprout and a couplle of stalks of (I think) Hooker's fairy bells. |
About the false (aka western) lily of the valley,
E-Flora says:
Occurs ... on very moist to wet, nitrogen-rich soils ... on water-receiving and water-collecting sites, commonly found on stream-edge sites, floodplains ... Grows with ... Lysichitum americanum (skunk cabbage). Characteristic of alluvial floodplain forests.
Pretty much describes the Nunns Creek wetland.
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| Young horsetail spike. With lily of the valley leaves and ivy (invasive here). |
The fertile stems of
common horsetail show up early in the spring, mature and die before the leafy stalks (non-fertile) appear.
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| Hooker's fairy bells, Disporum hookeri. One flower is open; the rest are still in bud. |
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| Another trillium. I think the red dot is a red velvet mite. It's too small to be sure, but the colour and size are right. Blown up to 400%, I can see the shadows of the legs. |
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| And since they were everywhere, another pink fawn lily. |
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