Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mts. of Washington

Mount Adams: Forest Road K1000 (east of the Mt. Adams Highway)

and the Klickitat Canyon Natural Resource Conservation Area

April 27, 2008

* 1. Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Fading out of bloom.

* 2. Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii -

3. Rein Orchid: Piperia species - Basal leaves only.

* 4. Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis -

* 5. Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus var. glaberrimus -

* 6. Nuttall's Toothwort, Oak's Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii -

* 7. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna -

* 8. Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (L. bulbifera) -

* 9. Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora - Beginning to bloom.

10. Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia - In bud.

* 11. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum (or L. klickitatense ?) -

* 12. Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Fading out of bloom.

* 13. Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum -

* 14. Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens - Beginning to flower.

15. Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - In bud.

* 16. Dwarf Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilis -

* 17. Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. capitatum - Beginning to bloom.

18. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale -

* 19. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora -

* 20. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis -

* 21. Naked Broomrape: Orobanche uniflora -

22. Woodrush Pussytoes: Antennaria luzuloides - Basal leaves only.

* 23. Hooker's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza hookeri var. hookeri - A few beginning to bloom along Road K1000.

24. Western Goldenrod: Senecio integerrimus (var. ?) - In bud.

Blue (butterfly)