Cow Parsnip and Ferns
By Greenthumb
4 Aug, 2010
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Just into the shade of the birch, the ground is covered in ferns, a great cropping place for fiddleheads and these huge cow parsnips, Heracleum lanatum. They have the biggest foliage other than the Devils Club further south. Also a little false hellebore Veratrum viride looking smooth and glossy to the bottom right.
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You would love the forest floor through this area then. This is the south side of the Alaska range were currents from the southwest carrying water dump just before going over. Ferns carpet as far as you can see. Some people use fiddleheads as a food staple through the spring, there is that much.
6 Aug, 2010
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What a beautiful mass of ferns.....I love ferns and more is always better.
5 Aug, 2010