Subject: Plant ID Help Please/Some Birding Content
Date: Jun 2 08:42:12 2003
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Lydia:

If is purple-flowered, that would most likely be likely be one of the forms
of Garden Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris), which is sold widely but also is a
widespread adventive/escaped species in wWA, especially in the type of
habitat you just described.

SA


>From: GizaTheCat at aol.com
>Reply-To: GizaTheCat at aol.com
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Plant ID Help Please/Some Birding Content
>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:48:49 EDT
>
>Hi Tweeties!
>
>Some possible WESTERN TANAGERS have been seen in my neighborhood.....birds
>described as very red and very yellow. While on a bike hike Sunday on
>Lowell-Larrimer Road my husband sighted a BULLOCK'S ORIOLE.
>
>Well, on to the real reason for my post. While working around my yard this
>weekend I discovered a COLUMBINE flower growing between the seldom used
>steps
>to my back deck. Its growing up from the ground below them.
>
>I hope somebody with wildflower expertise can come to my aid. I have a
>photo
>of the flower in question to help me with my ID. It looks like a
>Standley's
>Columbine which according to my wildflower book, is native to the Rocky
>Mountain area!
>
>Please reply and I'll zap the photo of the flower in question your way.
>
>Thanks,
>Lydia In Everett, WA

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