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First week of March, 2019
maritime Pacific Northwest
With our exceptionally cold February and now March, our usual spring wake up has been delayed in my neighborhood, the northwest of the Pacific Northwest. Aside from some Eurasian weeds and bulb-posies, I’ve been seeing no flowers yet. Even deciduous leafage is scarce so far.
So instead, I’ll share some nice trees, and a few other plants that provide the greenery hereabouts just now.
Typical soggy late winter scene: mud, standing water, mosses and ferns. Shrubbery of Salmonberry and Elderberry are still quite dormant — bare sticks.
Out in the open: wonderful trees.
Leafless dormant Garry oaks (Quercus garryana), with Seaside juniper in front of the ferry boat and on the cliff, its more typically shrublike habit
This particular Seaside Juniper (Juniperus maritima) is unusual in how tall and straight it is.
Madrona trees (Arbutus menziezii), with some typical dead branches and trunks. New branches and trunks sprout readily.
Red Alders (Alnus rubra) are all still buttoned up tight, but host a variety of lichens, like this Old Man’s Beard (Usnea)
A luxuriant moss draped on a stump, possibly Oregon beaked moss (Kindbergia oregana)
Frogpelt lichen’s orange fruiting bodies are as close to native flowers as I’ve got today. (Peltigera sp.)
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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