[What's in Bloom in the Oregon Cascades]

MT HOOD: CLOUD CAP TO GNARL RIDGE

Mount Hood Wilderness

Native Plant Society of Oregon Hike

September 21, 1991

 


WEATHER: Sunny blue skies, 50-150 mile visibility, 70*F, light wind to 5mph

ANIMALS SEEN:

1. Prairie Falcon

2. Dark-eyed Junco

3. Common Raven

4. Steller's Jay

5. Gray Jay

6. Lapland Longspur ?

7. Yellow Pine Chipmunk (Eutamias amoenus)?

8. Sierra Nevada Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel (Citellus lateralis)


I. CLOUD CAP PARKING LOT

1. Aster occidentalis

2. Penstemon serrulatus

3. Happlopappus hallii

4. Abies amabilis

5. Senecio triangularis

6. Solidago canadensis var. salebrosa

7. Hieracium gracile

8. Hypopitys monotropa

9. Nothochelone nemorosus

10. Smilacina racemosa (in berry)

11. Sorbus sitchensis var. grayi ? (in berry)


II. MORAINE

1. Penstemon davidsonii

2. Collomia debilis var. larsenii

3. Lupinus lobbii aridus

4. Pinus albicaulis

5. Pinus monticola

6. Tsuga mertensiana

7. Phacelia heterophylla

8. Eriogonum umbellatum

9. Polemonium pulcherrimum var. ? (past flower)


III. ROUND THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL BELOW COOPER SPUR TRAIL

1. Pyrola secunda

2. Lupinus latifolia

3. Arenaria capillaris var. americana

4. Spraguea umbellatum

5. Achillea millefolium lanulosa var. alpicola

6. Cheilanthes gracillima ?

7. Solidago spathulata var. nana

8. Saxifraga tolmiei

9. Eriogonum ovalifolium var. nivale

10. Luetkea pectinata

11. Aster alpigenus

12. Antennaria umbrinella ?

13. Lomatium martindalei (in seed)


IV. STREAMS, TARN, AND SPRING AT TOP OF GNARL RIDGE TRAIL

1. Penstemon procerus var. brachyanthus (or var. tolmiei?)

2. Mimulus guttatus

3. Mimulus lewisii

4. Veronica wormskjoldii ?

5. Gentiana calycosa

6. Epilobium alpina var. clavatum ?

7. Stellaria crispa

8. Erigeron peregrinus ?

9. Phyllodoce glanduliflora (1 week out of flower?)

10. Phlox diffusa

11. Polygonum newberryi

12. Silene suksdorfii

13. Valeriana sitchensis (in seed)

14. Spiranthes romanzoffiana


Paul Slichter