Flowers and other plants from CA, WA, OR, and AK

For pictures of flowers from our other travels click here.

To see other sights from our west coast trip click on:
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San Francisco and northern California
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Iris
 

Oregon
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Coachwhip seaweed
 

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Washington
It looks like Holly, but it has blue fruit?
It is actually
Oregon-grape Mahonia aquifolium, Berberidaceae.
Also known as Oregon grape holly but it isn't in Oregon and not a grape or a holly.
So every part of its name is misleading.


Blueberry


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Foxglove (digitalis)

Fireweed


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Southern Alaska
The guide's choice hike near Mendenhall glacier.
Toad skin lichen

Lettuce leaf lichen


Bloody tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii)
Lots more names:
strawberries and creambleeding Hydnellum, bleeding tooth fungus, red-juice toothDevil's tooth, and Peck's hydnum.
 

Fly agaric (Amnita muscaria)

Matchstick fungus
 
Canadian dogwood (Cornus canaceae)

Slime mold (I think)

Pixie cup lichen


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Devil's club

Siberian aster (aster Sibiricus)


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Yukon jeep trip
Canadian dogwood (Cornus canaceae)


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The seed head of the Western pasqueflower also known as Western Anemone and Tow-head baby.

 Anemone occidentalis
 
 
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Fireweed


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Icy Strait
Touch-me-nots (impatiens)
 
Canadian dogwood (Cornus canaceae)     It's here too.


Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus is a type of Raspberry native to western and northern North America.


Alaska interior
Nagoonberry (Rubus artica)


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A tiny fern as small as the ones we saw in Ushuaia


Thanks Carleigh for your help with identification of several flowers on this page.

For pictures of flowers from our other travels click here.

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