April 29, 2022: Mima Mounds & Scatter Creek (Thurston County, Washington)

After a very cold March and April, it was too early for most wildflowers at Mima Mounds Natural Preserve. (Later in the day, we stopped at Liberty Hill in St. Helens, Oregon, which was a bit better.)

Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve

spring-gold parsley
camas
chickweed
trail through Mima Mounds
buttercups, camas, & Mima Mounds
camas & buttercups
strawberry flowers
large-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
spring-gold parsley & budding camas
kinnickinnick (bearberry) flowers
serviceberry, budding
Henderson's shooting stars
hair-cap moss
early blue violets
wildflowers
Mima Mounds
western trillium
oaks toothwort
sword ferns, unfurling
bleeding heart

Rocky Prairie & Scatter Creek Wildlife Area

camas
chickweed
dwarf owl's-clover
buttercups
slender cinquefoil leaves
tall Oregon-grape flowers
upland yellow violets
American winter-cress
line-leaf montia
Oregon saxifrage
Henderson's shooting stars
camas
large-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
garter snake
early blue violets

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