RHH's photos with the keyword: purpurea

On our way home from Oregon where we had been vacationing with family, five of us stopped in the town of Tumwater for lunch and a walk. After a lunch of sushi, tempura and bibimbap at a small Japanese restaurant we walked in Tumwater Historical Park where these photos were taken, this of Common Foxglove.

These White Bladderpod flowers were photographed in Big Bend National Park, in Boquillas Canyon.

The the second day of our trip down the Oregon coast started out gray and foggy and we were in no hurry to get anywhere. Wandering along we stopped briefly at Clay Meyers Natural area and photographed the field of foxgloves we found there. Foxgloves are not native but have established themselves all over the Pacific Northwest.

These were growing on a bank at Wallace Falls State Park and were one of the many fungi and mushrooms we found when we hiked in the park last autumn. This is Alloclavaria purpurea, or Clavaria purpurea, also known as Purple Fairy Club.

This is another photo taken at Summer Lake in Skagit County, Washington, where someone has planted different non-native species of carnivorous plants that have become naturalized there. We go every year to see these, but usually go in October. Since we were earlier this year we were able to see these flowers still in bloom. The Purple Pitcher Plant is Sarracenia purpurea and is native to the eastern United States. The plant is shown below. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/carnivorous...

I've posted any number of pictures from this place before, but there is a lake in Skagit County, Washington that has a population of non-native carnivorous plants, including several species of Pitcher Plants and the Venus Fly Trap. These were introduced many years ago, though no one seems to know by whom or why, and many of them have flourished there, especially this species. I suppose that this is a disaster, ecologically speaking, but we are fascinated and go every year to see these plants The are growing on a muskeg or floating bog, a thick, floating mat of vegetation that can be walked on, though one can feel it moving. This is the flower of Sarracenia purpurea, the Purple Pitcher Plant, photographed early in the morning. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/carnivorous...

This is another photo of the flower of the Purple Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea, growing and flowering at Summer Lake in Skagit County, Washington, far from its native haunts. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/carnivorous...

This is the Purple Pitcher Plant photographed at Summer Lake. For more information regarding these unusual plants and their location see the previous photos. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/carnivorous...

These are the Purple Pitcher Plants in situ on the muskeg at Summer Lake. Both old and new pitchers and old and new flower spikes are visible in the picture as well as some of the other plants that grow on the muskeg, sedge and rhododendron. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/carnivorous...