[marta]

We saw this plant up on Sauer Mt yesterday and in other canyons around the Peshatin area. It was not in bloom yet so we can not identify it. I am wondering if anyone knows what it is by the leaf growth.

Mystery plant

Mystery plant

[Kim Brown]

DOn't recall exactly, but the word "puccoon" is in the name somehow. It looks like something from Dr Seuss, or Lost in Space, when in full bloom.

[Kim Brown]

Wait. I'm thinking of Columbia PUcoon, which is different; but I bet its a puccoon of some kind...? I just want to use the word "puccoon" in a sentence, I guess.

[marta]

I also love the word Puccoon. We thought about it. The flowers are similar near the tip. We did see Puccoon in the same area and it is different. The leaves are narrower and it is hairy. These leaves were not hairy. Lithospermum ruderale - Columbian puccoon I guess we just need to go back.

[pipo]

Looks like Dalmatian toadflax. Kinda pretty but it's quite a troublesome noxious weed. Common on the east slopes.

[mike]

Just albino camas? One in a field of blue.

[marta]

[RichP]

I saw this flower at about 4200' atop a feature called The Island in the Manastash ridge area.

Sagebrush Violet on The Island.

[yukon222]

Sagebrush violet.

[RichP]

[puzzlr]

I found this group of plants by the road near the Dingford Creek trailhead. There are not any like it along the 18 mile road so it's probably not native. Can you help identify it? The puffs of seeds are like those on a dandelion - if you bump them they explode off and float around.

Group of flowers

Puffy balls of seeds

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Almost no foliage -- a long stalk out of the ground with a few short leaves attached to the main stem.

[Edit] Sasha Shaw from King County weed watchers says these are "the flower stalks of the native coltsfoot after they've gone to seed. It's in the same family as the dandelion so that's an apt comparison. The leaves that are nearby that you have labeled as a different plant are actually the same plant, they just come up separately so it looks like they are different plants. Nice find and totally a good plant!

[puzzlr]

I'd like some help with another plant growing along the middle fork road that I cannot find in my flower books. The photo is not so good of the flower but captures the whole plant well. This is a loner, but most of these are growing mixed up in trailing evergreen and creeping buttercup which makes the plant hard to see.

Fringecup, Tellima grandiflora

[Edit] Added name, thanks to silence in post below. This is part of my self training to find invasives along the Middle Fork road. Except for Herb Robert the invasives are rare and I can't remember them easily because I don't see them. So I'm trying to learn the plants that are supposed to be there, then I'll notice something unusual when I see it.

[mike]

type of saxifrage? edit: photo I took on Sat. Called foam flower around here.

[silence]

It's the Fringecup ... a common lowland forest plant. Thx for posting ... I see it all the time but never knew it's name till I looked it up for you: http://www.wnps.org/plants/tellima_grandiflora.html BTW ... it resembles the foam flower (another very common NW native, but look closely and you will see that the leaves (and flowers) are noticeably different: http://www.wnps.org/landscaping/herbarium/pages/tiarella-trifoliata.html

[mike]

thanks silence. "foam flower" name is very loosely tossed about around here so I'm not sure what we have. Can't tell from my photo. I'll take a closer look next time.