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Cow Parsnip and Ferns


Cow Parsnip and Ferns

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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What a beautiful mass of ferns.....I love ferns and more is always better.

5 Aug, 2010

 

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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