Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3
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Coleman reading Flora of Pacific NW Burroughs 3

Coleman carried a most impressive botanical reference manual up to 8000 feet, his signed first edition of:

Flora of the Pacific Northwest
An Illustrated manual
by C. Leo Hitchcock
and Arthur Cronquist

Burroughs 3 is one of my favorite spots to go on an early morning in August or September. It is a quiet spot with a quite of view of Mount Rainier. It is a good walk from Sunrise , maybe 3 miles and with ups and downs maybe 2000 feet of elevation gain.
It's one of the easiest ways to get to 8000 feet in Washington State.

Nurse log, Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail
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Nurse log, Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail
Olympic National Park is home to a temperate rain forest , a very interesting ecosystem. A nurse log is a fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings.

Nurse log is on the Quinault Rain Forest Nature Trail in Olympic National Park. This is a very short walk, but very worthwhile - one of a number short family walks in the area of Lake Quinault.

I really enjoy the 5-fold spiral symmetry of Aloe polyphylla Schönland ex Pillans. It is a plant to ponder. It's also becoming increasingly rare in it's native alpine environment in Lesotho.

I viewed this plant at Paloma Garden near Wanganui, New Zealand (South Island) .

Some other Aloe polyphylla photos