As we walked the trail along Spearfish Creek to Roughlock Falls, the variety of late June-blooming wildflowers was amazing. Birdsong filled the trees, wildflowers were abundant. We noticed that almost all that we saw were white, ranging from huge water hemlock to bunchberry, white violets, wild strawberries, wild geranium, and tiny pink twinflower for a little variety.
Growing in the damp shade were these lovely pale blue aquilegia. They were a foot tall, with very small, blue and white flowers with curiously short, inward curving spurs, quite different than the native red and yellow aquilegia canadensis. They would be a welcome addition to anyone's woodland garden if they were available from a native plant nursery.
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Lovely photo of the blue columbine...I was thrilled to find it for the first time last year on the trail; this year I found it in a couple other spots, too. The wild columbine, the pale pink and yellow one, is hard to find. I know a spot but it is no longer accessable by the public. Sigh.
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