Wildflower Bloom in the Cascade Mts. of Washington

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

Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum from this site (April 2007).

* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.

1. Spikerush: Eleocharis sp. - Beginning to bloom.

2. Rush: Juncus (effusus ?) - From last year's plants.......Inflorescence lateral and very compact.

* 3. Field Woodrush: Luzula comosa (Synonym: Luzula campestris var. congesta) -

* 4. Bulbous Blue Grass: Poa bulbosa -

* 5. Willow: Salix sp. -

* 6. Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum - Fairly abundant.

* 7. Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii (var. douglasii) - A few plants still in bloom.

* 8. Water Chickweed: Montia fontana -

* 9. Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis -

* 10. Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis -

* 12. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna -

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

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

* 15. Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia -

* 16. Broadpetal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana ssp. platypetala -

* 17. Goosefoot Violet: Viola purpurea -

* 18. Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule -

* 19. Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum -

* 20. Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum -

* 21. Dwarf Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilis -

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

* 23. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis (Phlox gracilis) -

* 24. Hooker's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza hookeri var. hookeri -

* 25. Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale -

Animals Seen Along This Route:

Brown Elfin: Incisalia augustinus - On the flowers of a willow (Salix sp.)

Spring Azure: Celastrina ariolus

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