RHH's photos with the keyword: columbia lily

Taken on the Redwoods Highway south of Crescent City, this is the common lily of the Pacific Northwest, the Columbia Lily or Small-flowered Tiger Lily. We spent two days in the area of Crescent City, California visiting the Redwoods and on Sunday driving further down the coast through the Redwoods in Del Norte State Park.

This is the western version of the Tiger Lily, Lilium columbianum, very common but always very beautiful. This was photographed in eastern Washington in Blewett Pass while orchid hunting with friends from Germany.

This is our native Tiger Lily, Lilium columbianum. Usually a very tall plant with a lot of flowers there is a dwarf form of this plant that grows on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics that is less than a foot tall and has only one or two flowers. This flower was photographed there and if you look closely you can see the aphids covering the stem. Last summer was very warm and dry and the aphids were especially abundant, it seemed, wherever we went.

In Explore July 11, 2009, #138. We found these growing in profusion along Highway 5 in British Columbia on the way to Edmonton, along with many other wildflowers including several species of wild orchids.

Lilium columbianum is the Pacific Northwest's version of the Tiger Lily. These were growing everywhere along the Yellowhead Highway north of Blue River and we stopped several times early in the morning to take pictures. The tallest plants were six feet tall and really stood out against the background of trees. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/07/british-col...