long stalk, 100 cm tall
pink flowers with adjacent leaves; long
weather: warm,sunny, clear skies
Near Angel Fire, NM
Weather: overcast, early mist, low to mid 60's. Observation time 10:45 to 13:45.
Coastal sand dune recreational access trails.
Seashore lupine: Perennial herb, hairy. Flowers pea-like, banner pale blue-purple to white, wings purple, in loose, many flowered clusters. Leaves palmately compound, 6-8 leaflets.
Weather; overcast, early mists, low to mid ~60's. Observation ~12:15. Streamside N of parking lunch area.
Leaves alternate, deciduous, oval, pointed at tips, 4-8cm long, 2-4cm wide, margins with few rounded teeth near the tips, stalks 3-10mm long, densely hairy (white soft velvety) below, dark green smooth above. Stems of new growth velvety soft hairy.
For directions see top entry of the day.
Bright green, leafy-to the point of looking fuzzy-stems. The bushy photo shows mostly one stem, with lateral stems coming up and curling over that main stem. Deer fern, salal, red huckleberry, twinflower, and overhead a mass of Pacific yew/Taxus brevifolia that sweeps downslope.
About 8 inches tall. Lance leaves in opposite pairs, 3-7 veins in leaves that curve parallel with margin. Purple tubular flowers growing off red and green pine-cone shaped base.