Corallorhiza maculata, or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid flower. Varieties are also known as western coralroot and summer coralroot. It is found from Mexico to Canada, mostly in woodlands. This orchid is a myco-heterotroph; it lacks chlorophyll and gets food by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae.
Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallorhiza_maculata accessed 25 April 2010
Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy accessed 26 April 2010
Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County,Washington, USA
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Orobanche uniflora (Naked Broomrape)
....it is a parasitic plant, tapping nutrients from many other species of plants, including those in the Asteraceae, Saxifragaceae, and the genus Sedum.
Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orobanche_uniflora
It was the first time I had seen one of these interesting plants.
Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington, USA
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Zigadenus venenosus (Death Camas)
Juniper Point, Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit county, Washington, USA
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.... a member of the serpentine soils flora on rocky mountain slopes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidotis_densa
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Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County,Washington, USA
Green Point
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Fritillaria affinis
Monocot Liliaceae
Chocolate Lily or checker lily
previously named Fritillaria lanceolata
Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County,Washington, USA
Green Point
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Invasive
Hyacinth , next to Serpentine rock at Green Point
Washington Park Anacortes, Skagit Couny, Washington
Green Point
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Serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia
Dicot Rosaceae
Also know as Saskatoon berries
www.flickr.com/photos/mausheimer/4689371795
biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.ph...
Washington Park Anacortes, Skagit Couny, Washington
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Corallorhiza maculata, or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid flower. Varieties are also known as western coralroot and summer coralroot. It is found from Mexico to Canada, mostly in woodlands. This orchid is a myco-heterotroph; it lacks chlorophyll and gets food by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae.
Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallorhiza_maculata accessed 25 April 2010
Myco-heterotrophy is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myco-heterotrophy accessed 26 April 2010
Washington Park, Anacortes, Skagit County,Washington, USA
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