Before heading out we fueled up at the Mukilteo Coffee Roasters Cafe. We began at the Ebey's Landing trail on the beach and headed north along the shore. To the west there appeared to be a wall of rain over Port Townsend that was moving southeast. We were just enough north that we only had a few sprinkles while being in the sun. A little over 1.7 miles we took the trail up to Perego's Bluff and headed south two hundred feet above Perego's Lake and Admiralty Inlet.
There are lots of wild flowers out. The bluff slope is streaked with purple Woolly Vetch with patches of Oregon Grape, Queen Anne's Lace and Yellow Sand-Verbena (many thanks to Anna Roth for the identification).
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Yellow sand verbena
I think the yellow ones are Abronia latifolia - yellow sand verbena
Posted by:
ehiker on Jun 11, 2016 10:24 AM
Yellow flowers
Thanks. Even looking things up afterward I still can't identify flowers. I'm flora challenged!
Posted by:
thebrink on Jun 11, 2016 10:33 AM
Flower Experts
The key is that, when someone identifies a flower as a "yellow sand verbena," chances are they just invented the name to impress you. Three-word names sound the most realistic. You just have to get good at making it up on the spot. That white flower? Why, that's a rare lily-liver red persnupscin. That blue thing? Clearly an Olympic midnight snowflower.
In all reality, if it isn't lupine, paintbrush, daisy or dandelion, chances are it doesn't actually have a name. So sound intelligent, and make one up. I'm pretty sure that's what the flower experts do.
Posted by:
Jon Lee on Jun 12, 2016 05:07 PM
Flowers
Now that is very useful information!
Thanks
Posted by:
thebrink on Jun 14, 2016 06:55 PM