RHH's photos with the keyword: anderson lake

This is another of my wife's photos from Anderson Lake State Park on the Olympic Peninsula. The flower is of the Salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis, a shrub that grows to 4 meters tall and produces orange-red fruit that look like a Raspberry. The fruit was eaten by native Americans and often with salmon, from whence the name.

These are the fungus, Clavaria vermicularis or Clavaria fragilis, or Fairy Fingers. Barely evident in this example the tips of the fungus are often colored yellow. These were photographed at Anderson Lake State Park on the Olympic Peninsula. It is edible but with little taste or substance.

Anderson Lake State Park is on the northeast end of the Olympic Peninsula, not far from Olympic National Park. It is a popular fishing lake but closed at present due to toxic algae. We went not to fish but to see the wildflowers when we were on the Olympic Peninsula.

This was taken on a hillside along the trail around Anderson Lake. A trip to the state park of that name was part of a recent visit to the Olympic Peninsula, and as is often the case I ended up taking pictures of anything I could find while waiting for my wife to catch up after taking some pictures of her own. The previous picture shows why she sometimes takes so long and why she often gets better pictures than I do.

These are Vancouver Ground-cones, a rare and unusual plant. They are parasitic on the roots of Salal and Huckleberry, both very common plants in the Pacific Northwest. We have only seen these plants in one place, however. We were on the Olympic Peninsula last week and visited Anderson Lake State Park to look for them. They were not in flower (there are several pictures of them in flower at the link below), but there were more of them than we had ever seen. Their botanical name is Boschniakia hookeri and they are in the Broomrape family.