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Seven and a half mile Hike to
Hamilton Mountain
Tuesday 6/3/14
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Liz pointed out a bird nest that she saw when scouting the trail. She gets a gold medal for memory.

We thank Mr. Clyde B. Hadley for giving us the opportunity to climb this mountain and see Hadley falls.

Bronze Bells
Also called: Mountainbells or Mission Bells
(Stenanthium occidentale or
Stenanthium rhombipetalum )

The distinctive bell shape and bronze color of its flowers gives this plant its name.

Bronze Bells are poisonous
In some native american cultures this plant was called nose-bleed plant because it is said that it can cause nose-bleeds when touched.

Spotted coralroot
(Corallorhiza maculata)

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Coral roots are orchids that are myco-heterotroph; they lack chlorophyll and they get food by parasitizing the mycelium of fungi in the family Russulaceae.

The coral root gets it food from the fungi and the fungi gets its food from the roots of tree.

The Corallorhiza macluata is also the topic of the poem On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost.

Cow Parsnip
( Heracleum lanatum or Heracleum maximum )
Also called Indian Celery or Pushki

Native Americans used young stalks and leaf stems for food. The outer skin was peeled off giving a sweet flavor. The dried stems were used as drinking straws and to make flutes for children.

Meadow death camas
Also called: Common Death Camas, Deadly Zigadenus, Meadow Death Camas
(Toxicoscordion venenosum)

Meadow death camas is a beautiful but deadly lily.
We saw fields full of this beautiful flower.

This is sometimes found interspersed with the edible camas. Native tribes often removed it from the camas beds while both were in bloom. The bulbs of both are similar and in the fall when the bulbs are harvested, one can not tell the deadly bulbs from the edible bulbs.

Indian paintbrush
also called prairie-fire
(Castilleja)

The flowers of Indian paintbrush are edible. Native American tribes used Indian paintbrush flowers as a condiment with other fresh greens.

However, Indian paintbrush plants absorb and concentrate selenium in their tissues. Hence, the roots and green parts of the plant (as contrasted to the flowers) are quite toxic and should not be eaten.

Red Columbine
Also called: crimson columbine or western columbine (Aquilegia formosa)

Indian tribes used the Aquilegia formosa to make perfume

Red columbine flowers have 5 spurred red sepals and 5 yellow petals. The leaves of Red Columbine have three lobes, each of which is divided into three smaller sections.

Wild Rose
(Genus Rosa)

There are seven species of wild rose that grow in the Gorge.

Click here to see a list and description of the seven species
Captain Lewis (of Lewis and Clark wrote about the wild roses in his journal

Starflower
(Trientalis borealis )

Starflower is a pretty little flower. It is a member of the Primrose family.

It is a perennial herb that grows from slender, creeping rhizomes.

Penstemon
There are fifteen species of Penstemon.
Click Here to see the fifteen species listed

According to my "consultants' this is
either Penstemon fruticosa or Penstemon glandulusus

Columbia Lewisia
(Lewisia columbiana var. columbiana)

There are two species in the Genus Lewisia:
1)Columbia Lewisia: Lewisia columbiana var. columbiana
2) Bitter Root: Lewisia rediviva

The are three varieties of Columbia Lewisia

Click here to see a list of the three varieties

Yellow flower in bottom picture is probably "Gold Star"

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