RHH's photos with the keyword: columbianum

Photographed along the trails above Maroon Lake in the Colorado Rockies, this is Monkshood, Aconitum columbianum, a very beautiful but poisonous wildflower.

This is a Long-toed Salamander, one of the Mole Salamanders. We found him (or her) in our garage, brought him in for a brief photography session and then released him outdoors. He is probably hibernating now. In the insets the long toes for which he is named can be seen as also the green mottling on his back, barely visible in this photo.

We found this Long-toed Salamander in our garage, brought it in for some photos and then carefully released it. The green (sometimes gold or orange) mottling on its back is visible in this photo.

This Long-toed Salamander was in our garage when we found him (or her). We took him in, photographed him and then let him carefully released him. The long back toe for which he is named is visible in the photo, as is also the green mottling on his back.

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.

In one of the few locations in Washington for the Yellow Lady's Slipper there is a mixed population of it and the Mountain Lady's Slipper which have hybridized and produced the Columbia Hybrid Lady's Slipper. This photo was taken at that location and shows one of the hybrids.

My apologies for the delay in returning comments. I was out orchid hunting - fifteen species in five different locations. This, however, is not one of them, but an orchid seen and photographed on an excursion in eastern Washington earlier in the year. I've identified this as the Columbia Hybrid Lady's Slipper, a natural hybrid of the Mountain Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium montanum, and the Yellow Lady's Slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum. There is a location in eastern Washington where a mixed population of Lady's Slippers grows including flowers that look like each of the parents and flowers that are clearly intermediate between the two. This actually resembles the Yellow Lady Slipper, but it is doubtful that any of the flowers in this population are pure and so I've identified it as the hybrid. By any name, however, it is beautiful and one of our favorite native orchids. There is more information about this population of Lady's Slippers at the link below.

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 Cypripedium x columbianum, a natural hybrid of Cypripedium parviflorum and Cypripedium montanum, photographed on a recent trip to eastern Washington. At the site we visited there is a population of flowers some of which resemble the parents and some of which are clearly intermediate between the parents. This resembles Cypripedium montanum, but is probably a hybrid, though only DNA analysis would be definitive. We've been orchid hunting with friends from Germany, visiting quite a number of sites, twelve if I remember correctly, and traveling a lot of miles. We found a total of sixteen species, close to half of the total species here in Washington. For that reason I've not been able to post pictures or comment for several days, but should be back for a while now, though I'll be gone again today to Goat Mountain, the last day of our time together.

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.

Photographed on the Thunder Creek Trail in North Cascades National Park.

In Explore July 16, 2009, #349. Photographed along Highway 5 (South Yellowhead Highway) in British Columbia, where they were growing all over.

In Explore August 27, 2011, #304. This is the form of the Tiger Lily found here in the Pacific Northwest. This plant was photographed on a orchid hunting excursion to Vancouver Island. We were looking for the rather insignificant but rare native orchid shown below, Platanthera chorisiana, Chamisso's Orchid. We were looking for it in a high altitude bog under the guidance of Dr. Hans Roemer, a botanist and ecologist with the BC government. We found the orchid in several locations but also found many other wildflowers in bloom including these lovely lilies. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/07/bog-trottin...

This is our version of the Tiger Lily. It was photographed in Derby Canyon on a recent trip there with my wife. It botanical name is Lilium columbianum. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.ca/2012/07/derby-canyon...