Flower Collection

Amelanclier alnifolia – Serviceberry

Look for this flower in the moist soil along the shoreline. Appearance Deciduous shrub to small tree, 1-5 meters tall. Smooth stems coloration of dark gray to reddish. Leaves are thin and round to ovate with regularly toothed edges mostly on upper half; appearing smooth but finely hairy below. Leaf blade is notched or straight at base. Flowers are white and showy with linear to oblong petals, narrowed at base, in short- leafy clusters of 3-30 Read more…

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Anemone oregana – Oregon Anemone

Look for this flower under the pine trees. Appearance Leaves are basal single, trifoliate, the leaflets once or twice shallowly lobed and remotely serrate. Scaly, stout, horizontal rhizomes, the flowering stems 1-3 dm. tall. Flowering stem naked except for a whorl of 3 leaves near the top, these trifoliate, petiolate, the leaflets up to 8 cm. long, the lateral pair deeply lobed, all remotely toothed.  Flowers single; sepals usually 5, ovate- oblong, 12-20 mm. long, usually blue to blue-violet, but occasionally white Read more…

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Achillea millefolium – Common yarrow

Found along the shoreline, and in sunny areas. Appearance Yarrow grows to 3 feet tall and has no branches except near the top. The leaves are 3-5 inches long, with many leaflets on each side of the midrib (1- pinnately lobed); and these are further divided into smaller leaflets, giving them a delicate, fernlike, lacy appearance. Flower heads are arranged in large, compact clusters at the top of the stem, each cluster consisting of 1 or Read more…

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