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Wildflower Report for Echo Basin

Location	Echo Basin
Date	06/19/2015
Reporter	Margi Willowmoon
Comments	There were numerous forest and meadow plants blooming along this trail during my visit. The meadow is gorgeous. Some that were cited in Greg Lief's early June 2015 report were still blooming or at least partially still going, and I saw some new ones and included them in this report from three weeks later, around Summer Solstice. Blooming in the forest: Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Western White Anemone (Anemone deltoidea), Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus), Vanillaleaf (Achlys triphylla), Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa), Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), Sitka Valerian (Valeriana sitchensis), Great Polemonium (Polemonium carneum), Starry Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum), False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosa), Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus), Snowbrush Ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus), Wood Rose (Rosa gymnocarpa), Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum), Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes), Tall Bluebells (Mertensia paniculata), Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.), Penstemon (Penstemon sp.), Starflower (Trientalis latifolia), Sticky Cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa), Large Leaved Avens (Geum macrophyllum), Bride's Bonnet (Clintonia uniflora), and Western Spotted Coralroot (Corallorrhiza maculata var. occindentalis). Blooming in the meadows: Elephanthead Lousewort (Pedicularis groenlandica), Shooting Star (Dodecatheon jeffreyi), Western Bistort (Polygonum bistortoides), Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), Menzies' Larkspur (Delphinium menziesii), Arrow-leaf Groundsel (Senecio triangularis), Tall Bluebells (Mertensia paniculata), Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus), Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum), Western Coneflower (Rudbeckia occidentalis), Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.), Subalpine Mariposa Lily (Calochortus subalpinus), Bog Orchid (Plateanthera dilatata), Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Small bulrush (Scirpus microcarpus), and Merten's Sedge (Carex mertensii).
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Echo Basin

06/19/2015

There were numerous forest and meadow plants blooming along this trail during my visit. The meadow is gorgeous. Some that were cited in Greg Lief's early June 2015 report were still blooming or at least partially still going, and I saw some new ones and included them in this report from three weeks later, around Summer Solstice.

Blooming in the forest: Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), Western White Anemone (Anemone deltoidea), Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus), Vanillaleaf (Achlys triphylla), Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa), Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), Sitka Valerian (Valeriana sitchensis), Great Polemonium (Polemonium carneum), Starry Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum), False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosa), Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus), Snowbrush Ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus), Wood Rose (Rosa gymnocarpa), Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum), Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes), Tall Bluebells (Mertensia paniculata), Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.), Penstemon (Penstemon sp.), Starflower (Trientalis latifolia), Sticky Cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa), Large Leaved Avens (Geum macrophyllum), Bride's Bonnet (Clintonia uniflora), and Western Spotted Coralroot (Corallorrhiza maculata var. occindentalis).

Blooming in the meadows: Elephanthead Lousewort (Pedicularis groenlandica), Shooting Star (Dodecatheon jeffreyi), Western Bistort (Polygonum bistortoides), Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), Menzies' Larkspur (Delphinium menziesii), Arrow-leaf Groundsel (Senecio triangularis), Tall Bluebells (Mertensia paniculata), Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus), Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum), Western Coneflower (Rudbeckia occidentalis), Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.), Subalpine Mariposa Lily (Calochortus subalpinus), Bog Orchid (Plateanthera dilatata), Star Sedge (Carex echinata), Small bulrush (Scirpus microcarpus), and Merten's Sedge (Carex mertensii).

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