RHH's photos with the keyword: sticky false asphodel

These are the seed pods of Sticky False Asphodel, Tolfieldia glutinosa, photographed near Lake Elizabeth in the North Cascades. Lake Elizabeth is accessible from a Forest Service road that runs south from Highway 2 and is a favorite spot of ours for native orchids and other wildflowers.

This was taken at Lake Elizabeth in the North Cascades on one of several visits there last summer. The lake is at 3000 feet in the Skykomish District of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and is rich in native plants and native orchids. The Western False Asphodel or Sticky False Asphodel blooms during the summer with a head of white flowers followed by these attractive seed capsules. It grows primarily in bogs and wet meadows and is native to Washington, Oregon and BC. The photo was taken by my wife as were many of the photos on our trips to Lake Elizabeth, in this case because I was busy hunting for a rare native orchid. She usually gets better photos than I do, in any case. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-vis...