A View From the Field

Early meadowrue in the lowland between Lake Lilly and the Harbor.
Early meadowrue is a very tall plant.
Bush honeysuckle
Maple leaved viburnum in flower
Another Maple leaved viburnum.  When the camera is on, it's really on!
Beach peas
More beach peas, after I finally figured the camera out.
Bladder campion.  A weird flower.
This flower is not more than ¼ inch  wide.  I think it is called three toothed cinquefoil or wineleaf cinqueoil.
This is a really interesting flower I found on Pebble beach, but I can't identify it.  Before it opens, it forms long sprays of bumpy buds, and this is what they look like when they open.
Here is another flower I found on the beach.  From the Peterson guide, it may be a "rush aster", but I couldn't find a reference to it in any of my other books.
Another picture of the same  flower
A wood lily I found growing out of the rocks in a little gully.
Wood lily from another angle
A really strange flower I found in the rock.  I can't identify it, and I've never seen anything like it.  It seems to send out runners.
Another plant of the same species.
Here is another unidentified flower I found on the beach.  This one may be some kind of cinquefoil or strawberry relative, but it grows quite tall.  I confess, I forgot to look at the leaves.
This is why I love to take close-up pictures of flowers.  This is a common red clover flower (which grows uncommonly large up here - about an inch across).  What an interesting flower it is!
Here is a single oxeye daisy that was growing in the gully near the lily.
I think I mentioned in the journal that I didn't think there were any daisies growing in my stonepile.  Well, I was wrong.  I can see this one out the bathroom window, and it seems to be doing quite well.
Common hawkweed.  The flowers are quite small, but when it grows in masses, it is quite effective.
English plantain.  This is one of those noxious weeds that we root out of the garden without ever really looking at the fantastically intricate flower it produces.  The heads are not more than ½" long, but what an incredible thing it is!