Flowers on Mt. St. Helens - 8/4/2017
After we left Seattle, we headed for Mt. St. Helens. Wildfires from Canada south to California reduced visibility so we never actually saw much of the mountain. We stopped at a museum and made a few flower stops along the highway. Since we wanted to get well south of Portland that day, we spent a couple of hours and drove down the mountain.
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We stopped where shade and a wet ditch supported a variety of plants including this blackberry.
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Both the insect and the flower caught my eye.
fan-leaf cinquefoil_Potentilla flabellifolia_P1120857
Tucked away among taller plants in shade.
western buttercup_Ranunculus occidentalis_P1280480
Another flower that glowed in the shade.
Siberian springbeauty_Claytonia sibirica_P1280471
Or maybe some other equally beautiful species.
Magenta paintbrush_Castilleja parviflora_P1280494
