More Spring Wildflowers

Since my last post of spring wildflowers I've been out several times with and without my wife to see what was blooming.  Here are the latest, taken over a period of week and half and mostly taken on Fidaglo and Whidbey Islands.  The post, of course, includes not only wildflowers but anything we could find to photograph and the photo above is of Red Alders and Skunk Cabbage at Lake Padden Park.

Wildflowers

Naked Broomrape

 Spring Gold

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary

 Evergreen Huckleberry

Harsh Paintbrush

Death Camas 

 Oregon Fawn Lily

 Western Trillium

 Seep-spring Monkeyflower

 Henderson's Shooting Star

 Orchids

Western Fairy Slipper

Albino Western Fairy Slipper

 Western Spotted Coralroot

 Long-spurred Piperia Leaves

Fungi

Miscellaneous

Pacific Madrone

 Columbia Black-tailed Deer.

Orchid Hunting on Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands and in Larrabee State Park

I've made a number of trips recently to different sites on Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands and to Larrabee State Park on the mainland.  Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands lie close to the mainland and are accessible by car, unlike many of the other San Juan Islands.  State Highway 20 runs west across Fidalgo Island and then south across the Deception Pass bridge and down the length of Whidbey Island.  Larrabee State Park is south of Bellingham in the Chuckanut Mountains.  All these places are excellent locations for native orchids and for other wildflowers and I found plenty of both. 

The native orchids I found were:

Western Fairy Slippers

(including both pale forms and the all-white form)

Western Spotted Coralroots

(including the unspotted form)

Western Coralroots

(a very dark form just beginning to bloom)

Striped Coralroots
(the most beautiful of the Coralroots in our area)

Other wildflowers were:

Common Camas

Checker Lily

Spring Gold

Harsh Paintbrush

Naked Broomrape

White-top Clover

Leafy Mitrewort

Creeping Buttercup

 Menzies Larkspur

 Prairie Star

Skunk Cabbage

And, as is always the case, there were plenty of other things to photograph:

The Olympics, Whidbey Island and the Straits of San Juan from Goose Rock

Pileated Woodpecker photographed in Washington Park

Wildflower Meadows at Goose Rock

 

Madrone Trees in Bloom in Washington Park

Even a Waterdrop

Deception Pass Bridge