Wildflowers at Ebey’s Landing
June 22, 2011
We saw so many wildflowers in bloom on the bluffs at Ebey’s Landing. (Please comment if you know the names of any of these wildflowers! Thanks.)
On the bluff at Ebey's Landing overlooking Puget Sound
Wild Nootka roses
June 22, 2011 at 10:34 am
4th from bottom looks like bindweed in bloom…3rd from bottom looks like plantain weed in bloom…I would have to look more up once I get home but many of these wildflowers we consider weeds in our gardens…lovely pics
June 22, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for your help in identifying these “weeds” and wildflowers!
June 22, 2011 at 2:41 pm
The one after the deep blue is a plantain. Medicinal herb, seen as a ‘weed in lawn’.
No watercolours this time? Do you ever work from your photos, or only from live material?
June 22, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Thank you for the identification tips!
I work both from real samples and from my photos. My problem is finding time to paint. I can’t keep up with everything that’s in bloom!
June 22, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Rosemary – I love your blog and watercolors. Wildflowers are our specialty and we love Ebey’s Landing. Did you know you can find cactus on the bluffs?
Unfortunately – many of these are introduced species or ‘weeds’. But you have made them beautiful. I can not positively identify all. I’ll give you links to the Burke Museum’s field guide on the flowers for the ones I can identify. If you want a good reference guide – check out “Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest” by Mark Turner – http://www.pnwflowers.com/ .
Blue – Purple salsify – Tragopogon porrifolius
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=718
White – white campion – Silene latifolia
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=1228
Yellow – Yellow Salsify – Tragopogon dubius
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=714
Orange – fiddleneck – Amsinckia menziesii
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=766
Purple – vetch – Vicia Villosa
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=4773
Airy – plantain – Plantago lanceolata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_lanceolata
Last one maybe miner’s lettuce
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?ID=4773
June 22, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Wow, thanks for so much great information. I looked at your blog. Loved the hostas — and the coincidence since I’ve recently blogged about them, too! Thanks again.
June 23, 2011 at 1:08 am
The flowers are very pretty, I particularly liked the second picture where they’re all stood like an impatient crowd stretching their necks up to see what’s comming next 🙂
June 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm
So much color from these small flowers!!! Beauty comes in small packages and is not appreciated equally. Thanks for pointing out these beauties!
June 22, 2018 at 6:29 am
We have the plantain here in Texas, and I just found a relative of the Nootka rose in Missouri over the Memorial Day holiday. On that same trip, I found seedheads of the yellow salsify, also in Missouri. They’re like giant — giant! — dandelions. You can see one here.