Beaked Hazelnut

One cluster near Bowthorpe side trail. 

I found another one and hung yellow string from each one. 

Acorns

Two acorns on oak tree.

Tree is opposite the camas meadow. 

Can't find very many yet. 

Deer

Mamma and 2 fawns. 

 

A New Wildflower

Apparently this is a native goldenrod

Seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)

Yellow flower clusters brighten sunny, dry roadsides and shorelines throughout autumn. A clump-forming mass of pale green foliage stays neat all season. Great in a sunny, dry garden or landscape edge subject to road salt. Flowers provide late season nectar for pollinating butterflies and bees, and the seeds are eaten by birds. Thrives in the rain garden. Deer-resistant.

Oak Springs

Excavator on the Oak Springs Property. 

Also a big black dumpster by Walton's field. 

Queen Anne's Lace

These are not native.

Pretty but invasive. 

These are by the fence gate to Marvin Rd.

There are many along Marvin. 

A New Patch of Orchids - Piperia Elegants

Today I walked to the end of the dead end looking for Lady's tresses. 

Instead a found a large patch of Elegant Piperia.

These are a few of the plants in this patch. 

Flowers on Tansy Ragwort

These are where I had them tagged.

Flowers of ragwort. Wide ruffled leaves. 

Flowers of St. John's Wort.

Seedpods - Seedheads

These are white cluster hyacinth lily seedpod.

Several chocolate lily seedpods, top right is camas seedpods. 

Seedpods of cutleaf silverpuffs. 

Seedpods of the larkspur.

Found this chocolate lily seedpod to the right of my fenced one.

It is on the right side of an oak.

 

More Lady's Tresses

I found 2 more lady's tresses this morning. 

Some of above are duplicates. 

One in this place, one opposite the 'cow' sign. 

Now I have 6 altogether.

Five here have blossoms, one in row of 4 doesn't.

Ones at left arrow are the row of 4, middle arrow is by sign.

One on right is 10' from trail by group of 6 trees. 

Found this one 7/21 about 5' from trail.

Beautiful and mature!

At the corner by the dead end trail.

Looking towards the fence. 

From August 2022. 

Blog says there were many more in the corner meadow by Oak Springs. 

Orchids beginning to Fade

One that was stepped on.

Blossoms to the top. 

Western Beaked Hazelnut, Corylus cornuta

 

Western Beaked Hazelnut, Corylus cornuta

Cornuta means “horn.”  The “horn” or “beak” refers to the husk that encloses and projects past the nut. This species is also known as beaked hazel, beaked filbert; American cuckold nut, western hazelnut or western hazel.

I found and tagged 10 on the tree at the entrance at Schmitz. 

The California Hazelnut, or Western Beaked Hazelnut, is found from B.C. to California, mostly on the west side of the Cascades.  

Seedheads on Honeysuckle

 

Four Ladies Tresses

Left one. 

Left to right. 

Fourth one on the right side near the tree.

All are young and small. 

Beaked Hazelnut

This is on the front tree by our entrance. 

Same tree, see houses in distance. 

Elegans Piperia

 

These two were moved. 

The single.

The stepped on one. 

Platanthera elegans is a species of orchid known by several common names, including elegant piperia, coast piperia, hillside rein orchid, and hillside bogorchid. This is a showy flowering plant native to western North America. It grows from a caudex tuber and sends up a thick stem.

https://www.pnwflowers.com/flower/piperia-elegans

Three Ladies Tresses

Nice  to see these 3 ladies tresses are heading out their blossoms.