2010 Native Plant Photo Contest Winners

Long-leaf Phlox (Phlox longifolia)
Photographer: Heidi Newsome, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

This full frame shot was taken in May of 2009 on the Wahluke Slope area of the Hanford Reach National Monument.  This was a huge wildflower bloom following a wildfire that occurred in 2007.

Western Peony (Paeonia brownii)
Photograher: Fred Weinmann

Photographed at Camas meadow during study weekend in June, 2009

Sagebrush Violets (Viola trinervata), Cowiche Canyon Uplands
Photographer: David Hagen

Westen Washington Native Plant Garden
Marcia Rivers Smith

Bitter-root (Lewisia rediviva)
Photographer: Marcia Rivers Smith

Western Pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis) in fruit on the Copper Pass trail in Chelan County
Photographer: Michael Hobbs

Davidson's Penstemon (Penstemon davidsonii)
Photographer: Richard Ramsden

Penstemon davidsonii found on the cliffs and scree slopes of the Olympics and Cascades here flourishing in the gravel of an old moraine. Mt Rainier National Park, Pierce County, Washington.

Waterfall with Native Plants
Photographer: Robert W. Smith

Native Landscape at Wild Horse Wind Farm
Photographer: Donna Lucas

The Wild Horse Wind Farm, operated by Puget Sound Energy, is located 3,500 feet above the Kittitas Valley and Columbia Basin.  The wind farm provides the public with an opportunity to enjoy the lithosol-loving native plants of Central Washington.

Cottonwoods in Fall, Yakima River Near Easton
Photographer: David Hagen

Wenatchee Mountain Spring Beauty (Claytonia megarhiza var. nivalis) & Serpentine, Teanaway Mountain
Photographer: David Hagen

This plant is a serpentine endemic.