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Fun FAQs
The Birds
and the Bees
and the Bees
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Potpourri
Potpourri
FINAL
JEOPARDY
JEOPARDY
100
This is Washington's state tree, adopted in 1947 after a recommendation from our friends in Oregon.
What is Western Hemlock?
100
This botanist and co-founder of WNPS served as our first president.
Who is Art Kruckeberg?
100
This speedy pollinator has a short tongue and a lustrous green head and thorax.
What is the Green Sweat Bee?
100
The petals of this spring bloomer start as white or pinkish, and age to pink or purplish.
What is Trillium Ovatum?
100
In our region, English Ivy, English Holly and Scot’s Broom are examples of this.
What are invasive species?
100
The fruit of this shrub can be beaten into a foamy substance sometimes called ice cream.
What is Shepherdia canadensis
(aka Soopolallie, Soapberry, Canadian or Russet Buffaloberry, Rabbitberry, or Foamberry)?
200
This conifer cone has visible parts that have been likened to little mouse tails and hind legs.
What is Douglas Fir?
200
The WNPS logo includes these two native plants.
What are Vine Maple and Douglas Fir?
200
These diminutive and chatty birds tend to forage for insects in large groups.
What are Bushtits?
200
The bulb of this species was an important supplemental vegetable for coastal Native Americans.
What is Camassia?
200
The bark of this understory tree contains a strong laxative.
What is Cascara?
200
These animals have been described as “environmental Swiss Army knives” by author Ben Goldfarb.
What are beavers?
300
The fruits of this native tree are popular in jams and wines, but are highly toxic when eaten raw.
What is Red Elderberry?
300
The mission of WNPS is to promote the appreciation and conservation of Washington’s native plants and their habitats through these three things.
What are study, education and advocacy?
300
This most common PNW woodpecker has a distinctive black breast band.
What is the Northern Flicker?
300
These “Old Men of the Mountain” have been described as the first to rise and the last to slumber.
What are Western (or Mountain) Pasqueflowers (Anemone occidentalis)?
300
Oplopanax horridus is an especially appropriate name for this prickly plant.
What is Devil’s Club?
300
This New York Times best-selling author wrote “Nature’s Best Hope”
Who is Douglas Tallamy?
400
Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest consider this the “Tree of Life.”
What is Western Red Cedar?
400
This community-based program began in 1996 in response to numerous requests for public information about native plants and native plant habitats.
What is the Native Plant Stewardship Program?
400
This group of pollinators is second in importance to the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants and sawflies), and are the major nocturnal pollinators of flowers.
What are moths?
400
This monocot is named after a nymph in Greek mythology.
What is Calypso Bulbosa (Fairy Slipper Orchid)?
400
Unemployment during the Great Depression caused a rise in harvesting this wild berry for income.
What is Huckleberry?
400
This American marine biologist, conservationist and author was credited with advancing the movement that led to the creation of the EPA, and banning DDT.
Who is Rachel Carson?
500
Red Alders host these nitrogen-fixing bacteria in nodules borne on their roots.
What are Frankia?
500
These were the first 4 WNPS chapters formed in 1977.
What are Central Puget Sound, South Sound, Central Washington, and Palouse?
500
This word describes pollination by birds.
What is ornithophily?
500
Tweedy’s Lewisia has recently been given this new scientific name.
What is Lewisiopsis Tweedyi?
500
This genus contains a groundcover, a shrub, and a tree all native to our area.
What is Cornus (Bunchberry, Red-Osier Dogwood, and Pacific Dogwood)?
500
This word describes pollination by bats.
What is chiropterophily?