Today's photos are the rest of the March 1st batch. A little assortment of common woodsy flowers.

Douglas Iris (Iris douglasiana): gorgeous, quite common. Listed as a native noxious weed! You see them in grassy fields as well as in the woods, in openings and on roadsides. They reproduce via rhizomes, so you may find them in dense patches. This was a loner, and it's neighbor appears to have been eaten, presumably by a deer.

And the not-so-violet stream violet (Viola glabella). Violets are edible and a good source of vitamin C.

And finally, a pretty composite, Petasites palmatus - Western Coltsfoot.

I read that you can eat the leaves cooked like spinach - but not too much because they're high in pyrolizidine alkaloids, which are toxic to the liver. The concentration is lowest in the leaves. The Wikipedia article also sites a study that found that extracts of petasin and/or isopetasin, a substance in the roots, relieves migraines. A related plant is the introduced European medicinal plant Tussilago farfara, also known as known as coltsfoot, used as a cough suppressant. T. Farfara looks different and it doesn't grow here.