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Carolannie

Usually salmonberries (Rubus spectabilis) vary in ripeness from green to orange to eaten. Mostly what can be found of ripe ones is that silly red ruff left behind by the earlier, luckier (?) berry pickers. Every once in a while, I find one that is ripe and red and still there for the picking. I found this one wandering off the main trail down to Ravenna Creek. There it was, in all its ruby glory, long enough for a photo capture and to be consumed by the dog and me. Neither one of us liked it much: salmonberries are usually tart and watery and almost flavorless. They really are for the birds.
#Photography #PNW #SeattleWashington #RavennaPark #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants

A ruby red salmonberry, looking similar to a red blackberry, glows all by itself in a tangle of bright green undergrowth.
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Carolannie

Some spring time white flowers in woodsy parks
Sweet cicely (Osmorhiza bertoroi) is a spring ephemeral, going to seed almost as soon as it blooms, which means I need to catch it when I spot it, even on windy days, because two days later it is just leaves with a few seeds whirling out at the end of their stems.
Thimbleberry’s bright white flowers are always a welcome sight (Rubus parviflorus). They promise a crop of the tastiest little berries you can ever find. Thimbleberries are very fragile, so unless you grow them at home, you might as well do as the forest animals do and eat them on the spot.
Fringecups (Tellima grandiflora) are also showing up. They are at the light green color phase. As time goes on the flowers will turn much whiter, and then pale to bright pink.
#Photography #PNW #SeattleWashington #NativePlantsOfThePNW #RavennaPark

A photo of a loose cluster of 5 petalled white flowers and a few maturing seeds amid the light green leaves. The stems and forming seeds of the plant are covered in a soft white fuzz. The leaves are compound with five or more dentate leaflets. The odor of the plant, when crushed, is like a gentle fennel or aniseed.
A photo of a 5 petalled white flower with a mass of yellowish stamens and pistils at its center. The flower is amid palmate large leaves that look like those of some maple trees.
A photo of a few stalks of whitish fringecup flowers. The flower stalks tower over a base of rounded fuzzy dark green leaves. The flowers alternate up the stalk, and are shaped like little sups, with the fringed petals flaring up along the corolla , a little like the flame designs you can see on some sports cars.
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Carolannie

A rose by any other name: cluster rose, swamp rose, peafruit rose...which is why the Linnean system (Rosa pisocarpa) is so great except when they recategorize plants! This set of shrubs had flowers verging on lavender, which I suppose some people would call pale pink, based on photos online. Most of the ones I have seen in the past are much more deeply rose. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washinton, USA
#Photography #PNW_NativePlants #PNW #SeattleSummer #SeattleWashington #RavennaPark

Lavendar-pink swamp roses cover the bushes in Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Carolannie

Pacific blackberry, California blackberry, trailing blackberry, trailing Pacific blackberry, Rubus ursinus or dewberry! You get to choose. (Oh, and the devil's shoelaces, although many other plants that like to trip unwary hikers are called this). This species has male and female plants, so find a female plant if you want some of its wonderfully tasty berries. I know where a couple are, and I won't share their location, because I have to beat the birds to those berries. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington, IUA
#Photography #PNW #NativePlantsofThePNW #NativesInTheCity #RavennaPark #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring

Alt text: A trailing blackberry with several 5 petalled white flowers glowing in the dappled sunlight, Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington
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