North Beach Park in the Spring
Mar. 11th, 2012 12:40 amHere is a set of spring photos from North Beach Park taken over the last couple years.
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Here is a set of spring photos from North Beach Park taken over the last couple years.
Mirrored from Nature Intrudes. Please comment over there.
Here are some bud, shoot, and seedling photos from North Beach Park:
Red huckleberry (Vaccinium parviflorum) buds
Inside-out flower or duck’s foot (Vancouveria hexandra)
One of the common names for this plant is the duck’s foot flower, because the leaves have three rounded lobes that look like… wait for it… a duck’s foot. If you look closely, or click through the larger size, you can see that the leaves already have a duck’s foot shape as they emerge from the bud. Vancouveria is very rare in Seattle, supposedly extirpated (locally extinct) but here it is. There is also vancouveria in Carkeek.
Indian plum or osoberry (Oemlaria cerasiformis) buds and flowers
Here is the entire set of North Beach Park photos (getting rather large). The photos I added today are towards the end.
ETA: The best spell-checker funnies for this time was “Malaria conformist” for “Oemlaria cerasiformis”.
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I actually took some photos the other day that I like. No, seriously, that hasn’t happened for months.
Mind you, I’m not implying they’re good or anything, just that I like them. ;>
Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) shoot
Surrounded by red alder (Alnus rubra) leaves. Headwaters Bowl, North Beach Park, Seattle.
Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes)
Big Leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) bud
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