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Bill Rodgers

Amil Doyle, left, describes the characteristics of Giant-hyssop or Horse-mint (Agastache) to four of the six attendees of Blue Mountain Land Trust's (www.BMLT.org) second "Botany in the Blues" outing of the 2020 season. The group, led by botanist Doyle, travelled to the Sawtooth Ridge trailhead (near Bluewood) last Saturday where they learned about the many abundant wild-flowers, lichens, trees, and ferns during their three-mile roundtrip walk along the ridge. Highlights included finding Pinedrops (Pterospora andromeda), Wintergreen (Pyrola), and Broomrape (Orobanche).