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tjb_16
May 16, 2008, 07:12 PM
Does any one know what this plant is? I think it's in the Liliaceae Family. I found it in northeast Oregon. It was on a ridgetop with hundreds of others like it. I don't have a fresh one.
Picasa Web Albums - TJB - Purple Liliaceae (http://picasaweb.google.com/tjbenator/PurpleLiliaceae?authkey=iUHyTKbNN2E)
galactus
May 17, 2008, 05:19 AM
Even though it is more purplish, that looks kind of like what is called a 'Blue Flag'. It's of the Iris family Iridaceae. The Blue Flag is more common to the northeast though, but you never know.
bushg
May 17, 2008, 06:22 AM
Iris douglasiana - douglas iris (http://www.calfloranursery.com/pages_plants/pages_i/iridou.html)
Here's a niice picture of one Douglas Iris (http://wildflowers-cdrom.com/hikethum/irisdoug.html)
Enjoy, they are beautiful.
tjb_16
May 17, 2008, 09:18 AM
I didn't look like that. The flower was a bell shape
bushg
May 17, 2008, 10:51 AM
Crocus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus)
galactus
May 17, 2008, 02:27 PM
I looked it up in the Audobon wildflower book and it says they grow in the northeast. That's all I know. I can't remember seeing them in the wild either
bushg
May 17, 2008, 03:58 PM
Both of the flowers grow wild.