[Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon: 2023]

Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mts. of Oregon

High Prairie to Lookout Mountain

Mount Hood National Forest & Badger Creek Wilderness

June 29, 2023

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. jackii

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

* Showy Sedge: Carex spectabilis - Beginning to bloom.

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

* Cat's Ear Mariposa: Calochortus subalpinus - Beginning to bloom.

* Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. grandiforum

Green False Hellebore: Veratrum viride var. eschscholzianum

American Bistort: Bistorta bistortoides - In bud.

* Fleeceflower: Koenigia davisiae

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

* Pussypaws: Spraguea umbellata - Beginning to bloom.

Nevada Lewisia: Lewisia nevadensis

* Three-leaf Lewisia: Lewisia triphylla - Beginning to bloom.

* Mountain Sandwort: Eremogone capillaris var. americana

* Elkslip Marsh-marigold: Caltha leptosepala

* Plantain-leaved Buttercup: Ranunculus alismifolius var. alismellus

False Bugbane: Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. occidentalis

* Cascade Rockcress: Arabis furcata var. furcata

* Alaska Whitlow-grass: Draba albertina

* Steers Heads: Dicentra uniflora - 100s of plants. Fading out of bloom near melting snowbanks along the summit ridge west of Lookout Mt.

Wormleaf Stonecrop: Sedum stenopetalum

Alpine Alumroot: Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina

Brewer's Mitrewort: Mitella breweri - In bud.

Rusty Saxifrage: Saxifraga ferruginea var. macounii - In bud.

* Broadpetal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana ssp. platypetala

Partridgefoot: Luetkea pectinata

Drummond's Cinquefoil: Potentilla drummondii ssp. drummondii

* Fan-leaf Cinquefoil: Potentilla flabellifolia

* Silky Lupine: Lupinus sericeus

Common Broad-leaved Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius

* Hansen's Clover: Trifolium longipes var. hansenii

Oregon Boxwood: Pachistima myrsinites

* Cascade Desert Parsley, Martindale's Desert Parsley: Lomatium martindalei - Beginning to bloom.

* Pinemat Manzanita: Arctostaphylos nevadensis

Sidebells Wintergreen: Orthillia secunda - In bud.

Grouse Whortleberry: Vaccinium scoparium

* Tall Mt. Shooting Star: Dodecatheon jeffreyi - Abundant bloom.

* Scarlet Gilia: Ipomopsis aggregata - Beginning to bloom.

* Spreading Phlox: Phlox diffusa - Beginning to bloom.

* California Polemonium: Polemonium californicum - Beginning to bloom.

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

* Suksdorf's Paintbrush: Castilleja suksdorfii - Beginning to bloom.

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

* Glaucous Penstemon: Penstemon euglaucous - Beginning to bloom.

* Shrubby Penstemon: Penstemon fruticosus var. fruticosus - Beginning to bloom.

Lowly Penstemn: Penstemon humilis - In bud.

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

* Mountain Heliotrope: Valeriana sitchensis - Beginning to bloom.

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

* Rosy Pussytoes: Antennaria rosea - Beginning to bloom.

Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii

Cascade Aster: Eucephallus ledophyllus var. ledophyllus

* Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium - Beginning to bloom.

* Least Tarweed: Hemizonella minima (Madia minima) - Beginning to bloom.

Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta (Luina stricta)

Woolly Groundsel: Packera cana (Senecio canus)

Arrowleaf Groundsel: Senecio triangularis

Leafy Aster: Symphyotrichum folicaceum var. apricum


Paul Slichter