Virtual Wildflower Walk featured tonight at Village at the Harbour
Posted May 9, 2013 at 5:37 am by Tim Dustrude
Bicolor Lupine
Join San Juan Island National Historical Park integrated resources chief Jerald Weaver and historian Mike Vouri for a virtual Bloom Week tour of American Camp in full blossom scheduled 6:15, Thursday, May 9 at the Village at the Harbor, 547 Spring Street.
The program is free. Call the Village at 378-7144 for accessibility information.
The vast, open prairie landscape of San Juan Island National Historical Park’s American Camp unit is uniquely beautiful and rather unexpected in the western portion of the Pacific Northwest, where evergreen forests dominate the cliffs to the shoreline. On the prairie, you can stroll through the same spring wildflowers and ruffling grasses that the native peoples experienced hundreds of years ago.
“Among the wildflowers currently blossoming at both park units are camas, chocolate lilies, sea blush, shooting star, small-flowered blue-eyed Mary, fiddle-neck fern, death camas, field chickweed, bicolor lupine and faun lilies,” Vouri said. “If you haven’t visited the park yet this spring don’t delay, but if you can’t, don’t miss this brief, but spectacularly beautiful program.”
Click this link for more photos:
Camas
Chocolate Lilies
Death Camas
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