My wife and I went hiking on the Skyline Trail on Badger Mountain on Sunday morning and found an interesting looking flower that we had not seen before.
So we took a few photos and when we got back home emailed them to friends at the Washington Native Plant Society to see if they could help us identify what we had found.
Botanist Gretchen Graber identified it as Cynoglossum officinale, which also goes by the common name houndstongue.
Steve Link, another local plant expert, identified it to be a Class B noxious weed in the state of Washington.
Credit: www.tri-cityherald.com
