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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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My rock garden on Slab Alley, a route on the Apron at Squamish. The first, in fact - 50 years ago.
Hopefully climbers will refrain from treading upon it - it's quite pretty.
The route goes past it, a metre or two away, but there's no need to step in it.
I don't know what the little white flowers are.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 13, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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Here are some photos from Icicle Creek, Leavenworth Washington from the last couple weeks. I love flowers, but more photos of flowers probably means I haven't been climbing much.
Bitterroot
I don't know what the following is:
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jun 13, 2011 - 12:50pm PT
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Darwin, It's a Penstemon of some kind....I only know my California flora.
Thanks for the wildflowers pics..they brighten my morning....(-;
Edit....Cool pics..Frog-e!
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frog-e
Trad climber
Imperial Beach California
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Jun 13, 2011 - 01:03pm PT
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frog-e
Trad climber
Imperial Beach California
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Jun 13, 2011 - 01:05pm PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 13, 2011 - 01:39pm PT
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There you go. The Penstemon Society meets near my house in Seattle at the Urban Horticulture Center, or at least donates plants to the Center. I never knew what they were, though. Here is a more photoshopped and cropped version. (thanks again Nita).
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sempervirens
climber
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Jun 13, 2011 - 08:57pm PT
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These were all taken today in the wide sunny valleys and pine forests of eastern Plumas County.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 14, 2011 - 12:24am PT
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Thanks sempervirens, those were nice.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jun 14, 2011 - 01:02am PT
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Barrel Cactus
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jul 12, 2011 - 04:46pm PT
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jul 13, 2011 - 06:40pm PT
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Nita, Ana, Blackbird, Crimpie and of course, the long lost L. . .
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sempervirens
climber
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Jul 13, 2011 - 08:33pm PT
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Enough for now I guess. I tried bumping the other flower thread and sticking to it. But this one keeps showing up too. So be it.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jul 13, 2011 - 09:56pm PT
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What about this weird guy?
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 13, 2011 - 10:13pm PT
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Great pix, semper.
Appreciate the latin.
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sempervirens
climber
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Jul 13, 2011 - 10:14pm PT
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Hey Mark,
That is a unique plant. The other flower thread, wildflowers 2011 has a few photos of it too. But I don't think it grows up there near Hood River. Does it? I copied the explanation below from the Botanical Society of America web site.
There is a group of non-green flowering plants that is related to the heaths (blueberries, cranberries, rhododendrons) and is often included in the heath family (Ericaceae). This group of non-green plants is a subset of the heath family. Let's call them the monotropoids. Are they parasites? Yes, but in an unusual way. The monotropoids were thought to be "saprophytes." A saprophyte lives on dead plant or animal material, but the monotropoids don't do that. They are parasites on fungi, we can call them mycoparasites. But they don't kill the fungi. The fungi infect the short, stubby roots of the monotropoids, and transfer food and water into the roots. The fungi live in the dense litter of dead leaves in wet forests.
The most striking of the monotropoids is the snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea. Sarcodes was called the snow plant because it was thought to come up through the snow. But it really doesn't--it comes up after the snow melts or has mostly melted. It grows in conifer forests of California, and portions of western Nevada and northern Baja California.
Some plants of Sarcodes are brilliant red, others are more nearly rose-colored. Why the bright color? Nobody really knows. Such a bright color might attract pollinating insects in the rather shady forest floor areas where the snow plant grows.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jul 13, 2011 - 10:17pm PT
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Semper, no, no where near Hood River. This was taken this spring out along the road to Hetch Hetchy. There was ten or twelve of them in that general area.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jul 14, 2011 - 08:40pm PT
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