Bloom Reports for the Washington Cascades: 2013


High Camp Trail #10 and Alpine Slopes Below the North Cleaver

Wildflowers in Bloom Above the Pacific Crest Trail (From the Pacific Crest Trail to about 8000'.)

Mount Adams Wilderness

September 29, 2008

Blistered Rock Tripe: Umbilicaria hyperborea

Blistered Rock Tripe: Umbilicaria hyperborea

* Denotes the plant was in bloom.

Map Lichen: Rhizocarpon sp. ?

Snow Lichen: Stereocaulon sp.

Blistered Rock Tripe: Umbilicaria hyperborea

Subalpine Fir: Abies lasiocarpa

Common Juniper: Juniperus communis var. montana

Whitebark Pine: Pinus albicaulis

Lodgepole Pine: Pinus contorta

Mt. Hemlock: Tsuga mertensiana

* Barclay's Willow: Salix barclayi

* Black Alpine Sedge: Carex nigricans

* Dunhead Sedge: Carex phaeocephala

* Presl's Sedge: Carex preslii

* Showy Sedge: Carex spectabilis

* Merten's Rush: Juncus mertensianus

* Parry's Rush: Juncus parryi

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

* Small-flowered Wood-rush: Luzula parviflora ?

* Piper's Woodrush: Luzula piperi

* Seashore Bentgrass: Agrostis diegoensis (A. pallens) ? - Plants to 25 cm high with open inflorescence of moist subalpine meadows.

* Alpine Bentgrass: Agrostis variabilis

* Drooping Woodreed: Cinna latifolia

* Squirrel-tail Grass: Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

* Alpine Timothy: Phleum alpinum ssp. alpinum

* Spike Trisetum: Trisetum spicatum

* Alpine Buckwheat: Eriogonum pyrolifolium var. coryphaeum

* Pussypaws: Cistanthe umbellata var. caudicifera

* Slender Mountain Sandwort: Eremogone capillaris ssp. americana

* Alpine Sandwort: Minuartia obtusiloba

* Cascade Rockcress: Arabis furcata

* Lyall's Rockcress: Arabis lyallii var. lyallii

Small-fruit Smelowskia: Smelowskia (ovalis ?) - Past bloom.

* Tolmie's Saxifrage: Saxifraga tolmiei

Gordon's Ivesia: Ivesia gordonii - Just past bloom.

* Partridge Foot: Luetkea pectinata

Fan-leaf Cinquefoil: Potentilla flabellifolia

* Sibbaldia: Sibbaldia procumbens - Fading out of bloom.

* Arctic Lupine, Subalpine Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. subalpinus

* Low Mt. Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii

Kinnickinick: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

* White Mountain Heather: Cassiope mertensianus

* Alpine Laurel: Kalmia microphylla

* Pink Mountain Heather: Phyllodoce empetriformis - Fading out of bloom.

Yellow Mountain Heather: Phyllodoce glanduliflora

Dwarf Huckleberry: Vaccinium caespitosum

Grouse Whortleberry: Vaccinium scoparium

* Explorer's Gentian: Gentiana calycosa

Sky-pilot: Polemonium elegans

* Common Paintbrush: Castilleja miniata

* Magenta Paintbrush: Castilleja parviflora var. oreopola

* Thompson's Paintbrush: Castilleja thompsonii - Fading out of bloom.

* Sickletop Lousewort: Pedicularis racemosa

* Davidson's Penstemon: Penstemon davidsonii - Fading out of bloom.

* Tolmie's Penstemon: Penstemon procerus var. tolmiei - Fading out of bloom.

* Sitka Valerian: Valeriana sitchensis - Fading out of bloom.

* Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

* Orange Agoseris: Agoseris aurantiaca

Woolly Pussytoes: Antennaria lanata

* Alpine Pussytoes: Antennaria media

* Broad-leaved Arnica: Arnica latifolia

* Alpine Hawkweed: Hieracium triste

* Dwarf Alpinegold: Hulsea nana

* Alpine Dandylion: Nothocalais alpestris

* Alpine aster: Oreostemma alpigenum var. alpigenum

* Dwarf Goldenrod: Solidago simplex ssp. simplex var. nana


Animals Seen

Harrier

Prairie Falcon

Red-tailed Hawk

Ravens

Clarks Nutcrackers

Mountain Bluebirds

Yellow-rumped Warblers

Mountain Goats

Cascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

Pika - in talus on slopes due north of High Camp

Hoary Marmots

Milbert's Tortoiseshell

Checkerspot

Blue

Whites


 


Paul Slichter