Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course - Carkeek Park

Meet at 9:00AM at the Nancy Malmgren Environmental Learning Center. Parking is at the first parking area to the right soon after the entrance.

This field trip will last two to three hours and will give you the chance to practice using all your senses, and tools, to appreciate and to identify flowers, trees,  and ferns as well as other plants and animals. You'll learn to use your charts, tree & flower apps, and field guides

We hope to  concentrate on only 30 to 40 common species in our particular place, and understand more about their role in these lowland forests. 

Trees: Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Red Cedar, Lodgepole Pine, Grand Fir, Yew, Red Alder, Big-leaf Maple, Vine Maple, Black cottonwood, Madrone

Shrubs: Tall Oregon Grape, Hazelnut, Red Elderberry, Common Snowberry, Red-osier dogwood, Salah, Rhododendron, Evergreen huckleberry, red huckleberry, Scot's broom, Indian plum, Pacific ninebark, Bitter cherry, Thimbleberry, Salmonberry, Wild Blackberry

Ferns: Lady Fern, Deer Fern, Spreading Wood-fern, Licorice Fern, Sword Fern, Bracken Fern

Flowers: Bleeding heart, Stinky Bob, red-flowered currant, Pacific Waterleaf, Hyacinth, False Solomon's seal, White trillium, Enchanter's nightshade, Oregon Wood-sorrel, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, Creeping