A bush or very small tree with flowers that at first looked like salmon berry but are too open for this early in the year. And this is a shrub, not a cane.
Growing at the side of a closed road that I hope NEVER re-opens. In a moist ditch if I recall correctly.
very small about the size of a babys fingernail, on a short stem, purple.
The photo is only a part of the plant that was likely covered in snow at a pretty high elevation.
Flower about the diameter of a pencil eraser.
This is one among maybe 30 ladybugs I found sunning themselves on the warm black rocks lining the burke gilman. The beetles were completely still until I approached them with my camera. They were of uniform size, and most with 6 black spots on their red backs.
Some type of small pink flower found growing near Portage Bay. Smelt really nice, had fuzzy leaves.
Weird lookin plant. Has pointy leaves and stems with multiple brown little seeds. Seeds have a small indentation in each one.
The plant is 12" to 15" tall with widly spreading branches. The stem is slightly ribbed with purple lines in the indentions on the upper side but more smoothly rounded and light green on the underside. The leaves are very lightly hairy as are the small stems near the leaves and the fruit casings. The leaves are mostly egg shaped to lanceolate with smallish pointed (lobes) and wavy spots appearing in seemingly random places the leaf is not symmetrical where it leaves the stem...the veins on the underside of the leaf are prominent and arcuate (?)...the fruit covering is green, veined, in five main seams each with a lesser ridge in the middle. The fruit is small round and at this time (9/26) when the latest pics were taken...green.
