Prunella vulgaris is one of the very few plants I learned to identify from Craig Sondergaard 40+ years ago (of the…
The identity of these plants has puzzled me for many years. From photos I found Phacelia hastata and P. heterophylla seemed the most superficially…
Before you start cursing Rubus ursinus (variously called Pacific blackberry, Pacific dewberry, trailing blackberry, California blackberry, California dewberry, California grapeleaf dewberry, and…
Like Ulex europaeus (Gorse) and Rubus bifrons (Himalayan Blackberry), Oplopanax horridus (devil’s club) is one of nature’s ’Keep Out’ signs. As Tom Heutte eloquently…
So, this plant is an example of a particularly egregious and embarrassing misidentification from the dawn of my interest in…
This member of the family Rhamnaceae, which goes by the common names Oregon tea tree, redstem ceanothus, redstem wild lilac,…
Anemone deltoidea apparently sometimes goes by the common names 3-leaf anemone and western white anemone, but I’ve always called it Columbia…
When I ran into a fairly large patch of this whilst wandering along the road above Canyon Creek after I…
I have had a bit of a mental block with the species in the genera Montia and Claytonia. Back in 2010 when I started…
I did end up going trout fishing up at Canyon Creek in nw Clark County, Washington, on opening day, but…