This week's bouquet, part of my #foundflowers series, features a small collection of wildflowers growing in the forest of our region. We just moved here a little over a month ago and we quickly fell in love with this special part of the Pacific Northwest. Folks who live here are very proud (and protective) of the fact that this little area called the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion is considered a "global center of biodiversity" (according to World Wild Life).
Perhaps one of the most exciting things about moving to a new place is observing the seasons unfold. Every place is so different in terms of what grows wildly. In southern California, we saw a lot of elderberries, nopal cacti and wild mustards. In northern California, I noticed lots of trilliums and forget-me-nots. And in east Washington, the hillsides were covered with larkspur and arrowleaf balsamroot. When spring arrived here, we were warmly greeted by a beautiful carpet of these intriguing flowers and we are enjoying learning about them a lot!
This lovely, lavender colored lily is called a fawn lily.
From left to right: shooting star, ? (this one is a mystery... it faded quite quickly so it's hard to tell), fawn lily, indian warrior (pedicularis densiflora), and hound's tongue. We found all of these growing together happily in an oak grove where we harvested pedicularis to make a tincture for muscle/skeletal tension (you can read more about pedicularis on @sagescrub's steemit).
This is one of my favorites, hound's tongue. It's a delight to see blue flowers in the forest!
