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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: Malottguy on June 12, 2011, 06:59:25 PM

Title: Flower ID
Post by: Malottguy on June 12, 2011, 06:59:25 PM: I Think this is a Iris but not 100% but it is very pretty.
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: Suncrest Sniper on June 12, 2011, 07:53:20 PM: 100% correct. We have tons of them over here @ Long Lake (lake Spokane).
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: grandpawrichard on June 12, 2011, 08:20:15 PM: Quote from: Malottguy on June 12, 2011, 06:59:25 PM
I Think this is a Iris but not 100% but it is very pretty.

Definitely a Wild Iris and it's a Very, Very Nice Photo of it!

Dick
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: .280Lady on June 12, 2011, 08:31:43 PM: Beautiful flower! I picked a purple variety of that same species today along with several other eastern Oregon wildflowers.
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Post by: .280Lady on June 12, 2011, 08:34:18 PM: Here's another one of my favorites from today. Anybody know the name of it?
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: Malottguy on June 12, 2011, 09:17:56 PM: Thanks for the compliments. This particular flower pops up in the same spot every year where I fish and I never have taken a photo LOL. Next to is what I think is a type of snap dragon. As you can tell I am not real great at identifying flowers. Of the few I know and is one of my favorites are fireweed.

.280 Lady those are gorgeous and I am also interested to know the name of that flower.
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: Malottguy on June 12, 2011, 09:21:34 PM: This a snapdragon? It looks like the ones my wife grows.
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: SpotandStalk on June 13, 2011, 06:53:36 AM: Malott: your first pic is yellow flag iris, a pretty but non-native, fairly invasive species that is starting to have a detrimental impact to Washington's shorelines. Your second pic is Dalmatian toadflax, and again, although pretty (to some :)), it is a non-native, invasive species that has and continues to have a detrimental impact to our native habitat, especially our native shrub steppe.

280: that is a native camas, most likely indian camas.

I make a living killing the species that Malott posted to protect the species that 280 posted.
Title: Re: Flower ID
Post by: Malottguy on June 13, 2011, 07:26:58 AM: I didn't know they were non native because when I looked them up on multiple sites saying they were, but we know how that goes people aren't always informed even when they are "experts". The toadflax sure looks like a snap dragon so I am wondering if it is related somehow to them, I have heard of them and being invasive just didn't know what it looked like and now I do so thank you for the information.

They are both found in Douglas County along Rufus Woods, so I will be asking the Army Corps of Engineers if they are aware of the non native species. I agree I pull up invasive plants when I know what they are.