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The Daily Bucket - May PNW flower phenology: late this year [1]

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Date: 2023-05-09

Orange Honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliosa. CAPRIFOLIACEAE

Spring in the Pacific Northwest has been delayed several weeks by unseasonably cool weather over the past few months. It still hasn’t really warmed up, even though we’ve gotten the occasional warm day recently. According to my phenology records (ie date stamps on photos), all these native flowering plants are running between one and three weeks behind.

Here for the record, are stages I’m seeing in the first week of May in flowering plants around my neighborhood. Most are just starting to bloom (except salmonberry in March, nettle and serviceberry in April).

Western Spring Beauty, Claytonia lanceolata

PORTULACACEAE

Fragrant Fringecup, Tellima grandiflora

SAXIFRAGACEAE

Fringecup flower detail — they come in white and pink

Baldhip rose, Rosa gymnocarpa

ROSACEAE

Western Serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia

ROSACEAE

Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica

URTICACEAE

Salal, Gaultheria shallon

ERICACEAE

Red elderberry, Sambucus racemosa. CAPRIFOLIACEAE

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Salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis ROSACEAE

Sea thrift, Armeria maritima

PLUMBAGINACEAE

Pacific crabapple, Malus fusca

ROSACEAE

Vine maple, Acer circinatum

SAPINDACEAE

I’m seeing a ton of tent caterpillars this year, similar to last year. Before 2022 it had been quite a few years since a major population boom.

The tent cats are later than usual this year. Probably following the late leaf out.

Tent caterpillars on Nootka rose. This is shaping up to be a big tent cat year

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Partly sunny in the PNW islands today. Calm wind. Daytime temps in 50s, nights in 40s.

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