[Wildflower Bloom for Central Oregon, 2002]
US Highway 26

milepost 225 (just east of Eldorado Pass)

May 26, 2002

View north from US Highway 26 at this site.
*Indicates the wildflower is currently blooming.

*Taper-tip Onion: Allium acuminatum

*Tolmie's Onion: Allium tolmiei

Green-banded Mariposa Lily: Calochortus macrocera ?- Leaves only.

*Western Blue Flag: Iris missouriensis

Naked Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum

Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides

*Stict/Oval-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum/ ovalifolium

*Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

*Spurred Lupine: Lupinus caudaus/ laxiflorus

Sage brush, lupine and balsamroot at this site, about a mile east of Eldorado Pass.

*Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

*Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. capitatum

*Silverleaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata

*Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

*Indian Paintbrush: Castilleja species

*Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

*Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis species (douglasii?)

*Hawksbeard: Crepis species

*Hawksbeard: Crepis species

*Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

Animals Seen:

Killdeer

2 Red-tail Hawks (dark phase)

Western Flycatcher

Paul Slichter