Malheur National Forest

June 23, 2003

The photo at right looks upstream along Murderer's Creek at Oregon Mine Campground. May 26, 2003.

N 44* 16.546' --- W 119¾ 17.775' --- +/- 59'

Elevation: 4750'

Plants were sampled within the campground and outwards up to 300 meters from the campground, primarily downstream. This includes a rocky crest directly west of the rock pit and a small stream flowing into Murderer's Creek to the south of the creek.

*Douglas' Harvest Lily: Triteleia grandiflora

*Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Maianthemum stellatum

Meadow Death Camas: Toxicoscordion venenosum

*Grass Widow: Olsynium inflatum

*Stinging Nettles: Urtica dioica

Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracleoides var. heracleoides

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum (var. ?)

Knotweed: Polygonum sp.

*Sheep Sorrel: Rumex acetosella

*Siberian Spring Beauty: Claytonia lanceolata

Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva - In bud.

*Mountain Sandwort: Eremogone capillaris ssp. americanum

*Ball-head Sandwort: Eremogone congesta var. congesta

*Menzie's Silene: Silene menziesii var. menziesii

*Longstalk Chickweed: Stellaria longipes var. longipes

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum

Plantain-leaved Buttercup: Ranunculus alismaefolius (var. ?)

Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis

Hornseed: Ranunculus testiculatus

*Little Buttercup: Ranunculus unciniatus

*Western Meadow Rue: Thalictrum occidentalis

Holboell's Rock Cress: Boechera retrofracta (Arabis holboellii var. retrofracta)

American Wintercress: Barbarea orthoceras

Douglas' Draba: Cusickiella douglasii

Western Bladderpod: Physaria occidentalis var. occidentalis

*Watercress: Nasturtium officinale (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum)

*Tumble Mustard: Sisymbrium altissimum

Wild Candytuft: Noccaea fendleri ssp. glauca (Thlaspi fendleri var. glaucum)

*Lance-leaf Stonecrop: Sedum lanceolatum var. lanceolatum

Creek Dogwood: Cornus sericea

*Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (Lithophragma glabrum)

*Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

*Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia

*Golden Currant: Ribes aureum

*Wax Currant: Ribes cereum var. cereum

*Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia (var. alnifolia ?)

*Broad-petal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana var. platypetala

*Large-leaved Avens: Geum macrophyllum var. perincisum

Prairie Smoke: Geum triflorum var. ciliatum

Sticky Cinquefoil: Potentilla glandulosa ( var. ?)

*Graceful Cinquefoil: Potentilla gracilis (var. ?)

*Pearhip Rose: Rosa woodsii var. ultramontana

*Stiff Milk-vetch: Astragalus conjunctus var. conjunctus

*Thread-stalk Milk-vetch: Astragalus filipes

Nevada Leafy Pea: Lathyrus nevadensis var. cusickii ?

*Few-flowered Vetchling: Lathyrus pauciflorus var. pauciflorus

*Kellogg's Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus ?

*White-leaved Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus (old var. tenuispicus)

*Yellow Sweet-clover: Melilotus officinalis

*White Clover: Trifolium repens

Spurred Violet: Viola adunca

Upland Yellow Violet: Viola praemorsa ssp. linguifolia ? or (Valley Yellow Violet: Viola vallicola ?)

Blue Flax: Linum perenne

Brown's Peony: Paeonia brownii - Past bloom.

*Sticky Geranium: Geranium viscosissimum (var. ?)

*Elkhorn Clarkia: Clarkia pulchella

*Oregon Checker-mallow: Sidalcea oregana (var. oregana ?)

Sharptooth Angelica: Angelica arguta ?

*Cow Parsnip: Heracleum lanatum

*Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayii

*Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum (var. triternatum ?)

*Western Sweet Cicely: Osmorhiza occidentalis

*Darkthroat Shooting Star: Dodecatheon pulchellum

Three-seeded Linanthus: Linanthus harknessii

*Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii ?

Skunk-leaved Jacob's Ladder: Polemonium californicum

*Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. capitatum

*Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata

*Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

Mint: Lycopus or Mentha sp.

Narrow-leaved Skullcap: Scutellaria angustifolia var. angustifolia

*Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

*Common Monkey Flower: Mimulus guttatus

Dwarf Purple Monkey Flower: Mimulus nanus var. nanus

*Taper-leaved Penstemon: Penstemon attenuatus (var. palustris ?)

*Red Besseya: Synthyris rubra (Besseya rubra)

*American Brooklimel: Veronica americana

Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus

*Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

*Rosy Pussytoes: Antennaria rosea

*Heartleaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia

*Twin Arnica: Arnica sororia

*Blepharipappus: Blepharipappus scaber

Knapweed?: Centaurea sp.

*Elk Thistle: Cirsium scariosum (var. ?)

Dimersia: Dimersia howellii

*Scabland Fleabane: Erigeron bloomeri var. bloomeri

Foothill Daisy: Erigeron corymbosus

*Spreading Fleabane: Erigeron divergens var. divergens

*Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis

Fleabane: Erigeron sp.- large, glabrous leaves, not in bloom.

*Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

*Streambank Groundsel: Packera pseudaurea var. pseudaurea

*Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus- Nearing bloom.

Butterweed Groundsel: Senecio serra - In bud.

Woolly Goldenweed: Stenotus languinosus var. languinosus

Leafybract Aster: Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. parryi

Male Western Tanager feeding one fledged young!

House Wren

American Robin

Dark-eyed Juncos

Song Sparrow

Cassins Finch

Western Wood Peewee

Calliope Hummingbird

Yellow Warbler

MacGillivrays Warbler

Steller's Jay