The purpose of this forum is to help people identify things they've seen while out hiking: wildflowers, trees, birds, insects, small animals, animal tracks, even geographical features like buttes or streams
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Guy
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by Guy » June 29th, 2020, 7:32 am
If Adam or someone else would be so kind! Came across a large boggy meadow of this on the the South end of Surveyors Ridge yesterday.
Also found an old wooden pipe there!
Thanks.
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Bosterson
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by Bosterson » June 29th, 2020, 7:57 am
Isn't that just blooming false hellebore?
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by jessbee » June 29th, 2020, 8:13 am
Bosterson wrote: ↑June 29th, 2020, 7:57 am
Isn't that just blooming false hellebore?
Looks like it from the leaves!
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bobcat
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by bobcat » June 29th, 2020, 3:56 pm
It's the white-flowered species: Veratrum californicum (California false-hellebore). The green flowered one - Veratrum viride - is somewhat more common in northern Oregon.
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adamschneider
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by adamschneider » June 29th, 2020, 3:58 pm
Specifically, it's California corn lily/false hellbore (Veratrum californicum); it has white flowers on ascending stalks. Green corn lily (Veratrum viride) has green flowers on droopy stalks.
You can find both near Mt. Hood, but the green version is strictly subalpine, and the white one is more of an east-sider.
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by Guy » June 29th, 2020, 5:07 pm
Thanks all, struck me because there was so much of it in one place! A whole meadow full.

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by adamschneider » June 29th, 2020, 6:00 pm
Guy wrote: ↑June 29th, 2020, 5:07 pm
Thanks all, struck me because there was so much of it in one place! A whole meadow full.
Yeah, that's pretty good. Seems like I only ever see the whole meadowfuls when they're still a month or two away from blooming: