Wild Ginger is blooming! One spot is just to the east of the giant Doug fir on the Big Tree trail, on the south/uphill side of the trail. Many of the blooms are in plain sight (I did use a light to get photo 1, these tend to grow in shaded places). Tiger Mt is exploding with plant growth, lots of shade from the canopy above and flowers every step of the way. There are lots of trailing blackberries in bloom which attract bees and bumblebees. There were lots of spring beauties out on this sunny day (photo 3), very pretty arctic stars (photo 4), and lots of other blooms (a few more flowers and pollinators in the slideshow, there are a few non natives in there, I can't shun them, especially when there's a pollinator on them).
I like the old road above Sunset Way that runs parallel to the Wetlands trail; you'll find baldhip roses (and other species of the rose family not yet blooming), western trumpet honeysuckle (photo 2), and lots of pollinators (albeit a lot of them on the many old-growth scotch brooms). By trying to identify the flowers on the open areas of Tiger, I am learning a lot of non-natives.
I like the old road above Sunset Way that runs parallel to the Wetlands trail; you'll find baldhip roses (and other species of the rose family not yet blooming), western trumpet honeysuckle (photo 2), and lots of pollinators (albeit a lot of them on the many old-growth scotch brooms). By trying to identify the flowers on the open areas of Tiger, I am learning a lot of non-natives.
Seasonal progression on Tiger Mt
April 28-May 9 new blooms
Vanilla leaf
Plumed false Solomon’s seal
English plantain
Baldhip rose
Common chickweed
Foam flower
Creeping buttercup
Wild ginger
Trifolium subterranean
Small forget-me-not
Myosotis discolor, changing forget-me-not
Cornsalad, valeriana locusts
Bedstraw
Wood bittercress
Common Vetch
Western trumpet Honeysuckle
April 18-27
Pacific waterleaf
Stinky Bob
Mountain sweet cisely
Salal
Piggyback-plant
Arctic star
Maidenhair
large-leaf Avens
Ash
Bitter Cherry
Cultivated apple
Swamp currant
April 17
Hooker’s fairy bells
woodland strawberry
purple deadnettle
All started blooming between Mar 25 and April 13
Scotch broom
Western service berry
Pacific dogwood
Wild cherry
Big-leaf maple
Vine maple
Woodland forget-me-nots
Fragrant Fringe cup
Pacific Bleeding heart
Red flowering currant
Low Oregon grape
Red elderberry
Trillium
small-flowered nemophila
Siberian springbeauties
Common dandelion
annual water miner's-lettuce
Trailing blackberry
Shepherds cress
False Lily of the valley buds
Rhododendron
Bracken and sword ferns unfurling
Sitka willow, come and gone
3-15 evergreen violets in bloom (TMT and Hidden Forest intersection)
3-14 (60 and sunny) first butterfly (species unknown)
3-14 first pollinating moth (Puget power line)
3-14 willow on the Puget Power trail goes into bloom, working on the species
3-14 full flowers on mouse-ear cress or thalecress, gas line trail (Arabidopsis thaliana)
3-12 (upper 40's mostly sunny) first bee, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-12 first pollinating beetle, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-12 first bee, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-11 first skunk cabbage bloom (gas line road, culvert near the big tree trail)
3-5 (sunny in the 40's) first hoverfly, first significantly sized fly family (midge or gnat)
3-2 first shoots, great or northern giant horsetail, swamp trail, water-covered portion (Equisetum telmateia)
3-2 flower buds, mouse-ear cress or thalecress, gas line trail (Arabidopsis thaliana)
3-1 flower buds, currant (probably red flowering) just above East Sunset Way trailhead
2-27 red huckleberry in bloom, multiple trails, (Vaccinium parvifolium) parvifolium means small-leafed
2-27 Pacific waterleaf shoots (Park Pointe)
2-27 sitka willow flower buds (gas line trail, end of Big Tree trail)
2-25 cherry plum blooming (Tradition Lake loop)
2-24 first moths (American idia, small, tan-orange, same species that came out first last year)
2-24 colt's foot in bloom, poo poo point trail
2-22 salmonberry flowers (Swamp trail)
2-22 tall Oregon grape flowers open (Power Line above Sunset Way)
2-17 stinging nettle shoots
2-14 colt's foot flower buds (Poo Poo Point trail)
2-13 colt's foot (Petasites frigidus) shoots appear (section line, they must have been many days earlier on the Poo Poo point trail)
2-13 red elderberry leaves (Sambucas racemosa)
2-8 tall Oregon grape flower buds (Mahonia aquifolium)
2-2 oso-berry flower (Oemleria cerasiformis)
2-1 male Pacific Wrens singing for mates and territory
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