These members of the parsley family (Apiaceae) have several common names, including Pacific water-parsley, oenanthe, Pacific water-dropwort, and American water-parsley.…
They say this plant blooms from June through September, but I always associate it with the month of August. It…
I almost missed this plant on the trip to McBride Lake. I was apparently tunnel visioned when I passed it…
I found these members of Montiaceae (miner’s lettuce family, although until 15 years ago they were considered to be part…
This is my favorite lupine, mostly because it is one of the two lupines that I can identify on sight…
I first noticed this plant while wandering around with a headlamp waiting for bugs to show up at my lights…
Probably almost everyone reading this has had at least one painful encounter with stinging nettles, and has hopefully already learned…
I don’t often find Frangula purshiana (also known as cascara buckthorn, bearberry, cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, coffee-tree) in isolated spots where…
Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) get all of the press because they are huge, beautiful, shade providing, moss and lichen and…
After 4 straight animal posts (3 of them vertebrates), I thought I’d turn to the botanical world for this profile.…