Friday, July 22, 2016

#Blooms & Berries on Pacific Northwest #Hikes - Saturday Snapshots

I've been posting quite a few photos lately of trees, mountains, rivers, and people from my hikes and walks. I also take pictures of plants. So here are a few blooms and berries I've captured recently. 
[Click on photos to enlarge.]

Common Yarrow - Achillea Millefolia

Hardtack - Spirea Douglasii

Thimbleberries - Rubus parviflorus
Salmonberry - Rubus Spectabilis
Red huckleberries - Vaccinium parvifolium 
Purple sage - Salvia dorrii var. carnosa
 (I think!)
A mystery.
These berries were the size of English peas.

I identified these plants by checking this website, as well as others:
Turner Photographics - Wildflowers
Let me know if I got them wrong!




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16 comments:

  1. Those blooms are so pretty! It's great that you took the time to check what they were called.

    Thanks for sharing, and have a good weekend.

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  2. These blooms look so beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
    You can view my snapshot at https://a-window-in-my-life.blogspot.in/

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  3. Beautiful! And thanks for identifying. ;)

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  4. Thanks for doing the hard work and looking up the names of the plants. I always like to know about plants, birds, etc. I have a spirea in my yard, but it is not the lovely pink one you photographed.

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  5. Funny, but I have never seen any of these plants in person!

    Love your photos.

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  6. A friend enlightened me about the berries in the final photo. They're False Solomon's Seal - Smilacina racemosa. Research revealed that they are edible when they turn red in autumn, and they were used for medicinal purposes by native Americans and early settlers.

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  7. Beautiful photos! And I was so impressed you knew what the blooms & berries all were! Thanks for sharing your resource.

    I've never heard of thimbleberries - they look very much like raspberries. And I just read a novel set in the Pacific NW that mentioned salmonberries, so i was glad to see what they look like!

    Sue

    2016 Big Book Summer Challenge

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  8. 'Hardtack' looks anything but - so soft-looking. Thimbleberries remind me of Elizabeth Enright's Newbery Award winning (1939) Thimbleberry Summer. Am glad to finally see what they look like. Thank you!

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  9. Good for you for being able to identify them. Even with photos, I don't have the patience to search for them.

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  10. Lovely and so colorful!

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  11. Gorgeous shots! I really like the look of those Salmonberries.....thanks for sharing.

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  12. I love the names of some of the plants, especially the Thimbleberries and Huckleberries.

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  13. Such beautiful pictures. You're a talented photographer as well as writer!
    Kathy G.

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  14. These are lovely. Thank you for sharing these.

    Kelly Marshall

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