Category: Plant Identification
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Which wild PNW plants bloom in early spring?
Yesterday was the first official day of spring here in the northern hemisphere, but the plants have been telling us that spring is here for a while now. Read on to find out which wild plants have already started blooming in Pacific Northwest forests! 🕓 Time to read: Indian Plum Oemleria cerasiformisRose FamilyNative to PNW…
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Lupine
Lupine smell like nothing at all. Their hooded flowers feel like paper and like rain. Tiny ants climb their stems, up and down on the small hairs. A bee lands on a purple bud, makes its way in, and then leaves to find the lupine’s brethren. In their roots, lupine fix nitrogen, and I imagine…
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The Plant With Purple Flowers
Until yesterday I hadn’t paid much attention to the American brooklime. I’m sure I’ve walked past it numerous times–in fields, in marshy pathways puddled with mud, alongside black streams smelling of a warm day’s shade. My life as a forest dweller has likely brought me into unbeknownst contact with the American brooklime countless times, year after year,…
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Foraging: A Local Food Solution
My best guess is that you’ve never eaten a dandelion. Now, I don’t mean this in an offensive way— I just mean that most people have never had the delight of plucking one of those yellow flowers from the grass and grinding it between their teeth. Dandelions (taraxacum officinale) are among the most notorious weeds,…
All The Winds Of The World 