[Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon: 2014]

Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mts. of Oregon

High Prairie to Lookout Mountain

Mount Hood National Forest & Badger Creek Wilderness

June 21, 2014

Marshmarigold, Twinflowered Marshmarigold, Broad-leaved Marshmarigold, Broad-leaved Caltha: Caltha leptosepala (Synonyms: Caltha biflora, Caltha biflora ssp. howellii, Caltha biflora var. biflora, Caltha biflora var. leptosepala , Caltha biflora var. rotundifolia, Caltha leptosepala ssp. howellii, Caltha leptosepala ssp. leptosepala, Caltha leptosepala var. biflora, Caltha leptosepala var. leptosepala, Caltha leptosepala var. rotundifolia)

The east face of Mt. Hood as seen from near the summit of Lookout Mountain in the Mt. Hood National Forest............July 4, 2013.

* Indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.

Common Juniper: Juniperus communis var. montana

Grand Fir: Abies grandis

Engelmann Spruce: Picea engelmannii

Whitebark Pine: Pinus albicaulis

Lodgepole Pine: Pinus contorta var. latifolia

Western White Pine: Pinus monticola

Mountain Hemlock: Tsuga mertensiana

Hitchcock's Wood-rush: Luzula glabrata ssp. hitchcockiana

* Western Wake-robin: Trillium ovatum

Green False Hellebore: Veratrum viride

* Fleeceflower: Aconogonon davisiae var. davisiae

American Bistort: Bistorta bistortoides

* Sulphur-flowered Buckwheat: Eriogonum umbellatum var. sandbergii - Beginning to bloom.

* Pussypaws: Spraguea umbellata

* Mountain Sandwort: Arenaria capillaris var. americana

* Elkslip Marsh-marigold: Caltha leptosepala

* Hartweg's Buttercup: Ranunculus alismifolius var. hartwegii

False Bugbane: Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. occidentalis

* Cascade Rockcress: Arabis furcata var. furcata

* Steers Heads: Dicentra uniflora - Blooming near melting snowbanks along the summit ridge west of Lookout Mt.

Wormleaf Stonecrop: Sedum stenopetalum

* Alpine Alumroot: Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina - Beginning to bloom.

Brewer's Mitrewort: Mitella breweri

Rusty Saxifrage: Saxifraga ferruginea var. macounii

* Broadpetal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana var. macropetala

Partridgefoot: Luetkea pectinata

* Drummond's Cinquefoil: Potentilla drummondii ssp. drummondii

* Fan-leaf Cinquefoil: Potentilla flabellifolia

Clover: Trifolium (eriocephalum or longipes)

* Oregon Boxwood: Pachistima myrsinites

* Cascade Desert Parsley, Martindale's Desert Parsley: Lomatium martindalei

* Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

* Pinemat Manzanita: Arctostaphylos nevadensis

Sidebells Wintergreen: Orthillia secunda

* Grouse Whortleberry: Vaccinium scoparium

* Tall Mt. Shooting Star: Dodecatheon jeffreyi ? - Beginning to bloom.

* Scarlet Gilia: Ipomopsis aggregata - Blooming only along the access afforded by FS Road #44

* Spreading Phlox: Phlox diffusa - Beginning to bloom.

* California Polemonium: Polemonium californicum

Silverleaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata var. compacta - In bud.

* Common Paintbrush: Castilleja miniata ssp. miniata

Suksdorf's Paintbrush: Castilleja suksdorfii

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus

* Glaucous Penstemon: Penstemon euglaucous - Beginning to bloom.

* Black Twinberry: Lonicera involucrata var. involucrata - Beginning to bloom.

Mountain Heliotrope: Valeriana sitchensis - In bud.

*Western Yarrow: Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis - Beginning to bloom.

* Rosy Pussytoes: Antennaria rosea - Beginning to bloom.

* Nevada Arnica: Arnica nevadensis (or an alpine form of Heartleaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia)

Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii - In bud.

Subalpine Daisy: Erigeron peregrinus ssp. callianthemus var. callianthemus

Cascade Aster: Eucephallus ledophyllus var. ledophyllus (formerly Aster ledophyllus)

Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium - In bud.

Least Tarweed: Hemizonella minima (Madia minima)

Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta (Luina stricta)

Woolly Groundsel: Packera cana (Senecio canus) - In bud.

Arrowleaf Groundsel: Senecio triangularis

Leafy Aster: Symphyotrichum folicaceum var. apricum


Animals Observed Along This Route:

Sierra Nevada Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

Towsend's Solitaires

White-crowned Sparrows

Yellow-rumped Warblers

Red-breasted Nuthatches

Pine Siskins

Mountain Pine Whites ?

Silvery Blues


Tall mountain shooting stars (Dodecatheon jeffreyi) and marshmarigolds (Caltha leptosepala) beginning to bloom at High Prairie, the trailhead to Lookout Mountain..........June 21, 2014.

Tall mountain shooting stars (Dodecatheon jeffreyi) and marshmarigolds (Caltha leptosepala) beginning to bloom at High Prairie, the trailhead to Lookout Mountain..........June 21, 2014.

Paul Slichter