A Botanist’s View of Local Flora – Bluebells

Bluebells have beautiful dainty, pendulous, tubular flowers that expand to a bell-shaped structure with flared lobes. Both our species are found in moist meadows, open forest areas and stream sides.

Bluebells have beautiful dainty, pendulous, tubular flowers that expand to a bell-shaped structure with flared lobes. Both our species are found in moist meadows, open forest areas and stream sides.

Away to the west of the Chetco-Illinois River divide, in a dark, wooded section of the Little Chetco canyon, many years ago, when the hardy gold seekers of that day were back there reaping a golden harvest, a sturdy little one-room cabin with an open lean-to attached to one end was built beside the trail not far from the river. It was always called the “Emily” cabin.
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