judithofsquamish's Identifications

Season’s haul of new growth. Some of the bigger ones had sprouted from large roots with healed breaks- presumably ones that had broken when I tried pulling them in past years. The slope where they had once grown is covered in blooming wild roses and the seedheads of fawn lilies.

A mystery for me. I started out looking for Malus fusca in this park, where I thought I had seen some in the fall. I ended up at an even unlikelier spot, just below the rocky outcrop summit, where there are many native shrubs. The sparse clusters of flowers, bobbing green fruit, bark and leaf shapes just don't give me an answer.