Granite Mountain Pink Heather
Phyllodoce empetriformis Ericaceae
Granite Mountain, King County, Washington, USA
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Granite Mountain, King County, Washington USA
Bear Grass
Xerophyllum tenax Liliaceae
Sometimes a bear will eat this, in the spring; but when you see it clipped, it's usually due to pickers, who are selling it - according to Daniel Mathews in his excellent book "Cascade-Olympic Natural History"
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Granite Mountain Tiger Lily and Bumblebee
Lilium columbianum Liliaceae
Lilium columbianum at Burke Museum
Lilium columbianum on USDA Plants profile
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Liliidae
Order Liliales
Family Liliaceae – Lily family
Genus Lilium L. – lily
Species Lilium columbianum Leichtlin – Columbia lily
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Granite Mountain Tiger Lily and Bumblebee
Lilium columbianum Liliaceae
Lilium columbianum at Burke Museum
Lilium columbianum on USDA Plants profile
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Liliidae
Order Liliales
Family Liliaceae – Lily family
Genus Lilium L. – lily
Species Lilium columbianum Leichtlin – Columbia lily
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Granite Mountain Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus in Rosaceae family
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Streptopus amplexifolius (twisted stalk)
Granite Mountain
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Goodyera oblongifolia (western rattlesnake plantain) in flower seen while hiking down from Mason Lake in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, elevation about 1000 meter, (3300 feet)
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Rhododendron albiflorum
Ericaceae Dicot
white rhododendron, Cascade azalea
Rhododendron
from the Greek: rhodos, "rose", and dendron, "tree")
Rainbow Lake, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
King County, Washington, USA
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There was a lot of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) along this section of the trail, not much in bloom. It was very nice to walk in this noice, cool section of the trail on what was proving to be a fairly hot (by Seattle standards - 28 C or 82 F) day
Trail to Mason Lake (approaching Island Lake) Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
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Corallorhiza sp. - Talapus Lake, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Orchidaceae family
These are mycotrophic plants that obtain their organic carbon from a host green plant by tapping into an intermediary mycorrhizal fungus attached to the roots of the host plant.
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
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Pine Sap (Monotropa hypopitys) on the way to Talapus Lake, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
These are mycotrophic plants that obtain their organic carbon from a host green plant by tapping into an intermediary mycorrhizal fungus attached to the roots of the host plant.
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Growing on the side of the road, orange, and "peel" like as its name suggests. It does look like an orange peel, except it's smooth.
Habitat: On the side of the road, or a forest dominated by TSHE, PSME, THPL.
Ariolimax columbianus (Gould, 1851) Pacific Banana Slug
Arionidae, Stylommatophora, Gastropoda, Mollusca, Animalia
The banana slug breathes through the Pneumostome
This slug was on Bandera Mountain, King County, Washington, USA at an elevation of about 1600 meters (5240 feet) along a damp forest floor.
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