[Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon: 2003]
Road To Blue Sky: Mouth of Deer Canyon

Hart Mt. National Antelope Refuge

June 25, 2003

 

Elevation: 6102' --- N42* 27.182' --- W119* 38.820' --- +/-13'

The area studied surrounds the road to Blue Sky at a point just south of the mouth of Deer Canyon. A dry, shallow ditch runs along the east side of the road with gradual, rocky slopes further to the east, while a dry creek meanders through a meadow to the west of the road. Plants were studied about 10o meters east, 200 meters south, and 80 meters west of the coordinates above.

* Denotes the wildflower is currently in bloom.

Willow: Salix sp.

Cheat Grass: Bromus tectorum

Lily Family

*Tapertip Onion: Allium acuminatum

Common Camas: Camassia quamash

Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Smilacina stellata

*White Brodiaea: Tritelia (Brodiaea) hyacinthina

Meadow Death-camas: Zigadenus venenosus

Iris Family

*Western Blue Flag: Iris missouriensis

Buckwheat Family

Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides

*Round-headed Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum

*Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. anserinum

Curly Dock: Rumex crispus

Dock: Rumex sp. - Large, sagitate leaves.

Purslane Family

*Water Montia: Montia chammisoi

Pink Family

*Sandwort: Arenaria capillaris

*Long-stalk Chickweed: Stellaria longipes var. longipes

Buttercup Family

*Dwarf Larkspur: Delphinium depauperatum

Hornseed: Ranunculus testiculatus

*Little Buttercup: Ranuculus unciniata

Mustard Family

Holboell's Rock Cress: Arabis holboellii

*Peppergrass: Lepidium perfoliatum

Dagger Pods: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

Gooseberry Family

Golden Currant: Ribes aureum

Wax Currant: Ribes cereum

Rose Family

Prairie Smoke / Old Man's Whiskers: Geum triflorum var. ciliatum

Graceful Cinquefoil: Potentilla gracilis

Antelope Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata

Pea Family

*Milk-vetch: Astragalus agrestis

*Tailcup Lupine: Lupinus argenteus var. heteranthus (L. caudatus)

*Woolly Head Clover: Trifolium eriocephalum

Evening-Primrose Family

*Tansy-leaved Evening Primrose: Cammissonia tanacetifolia

Mallow Family

*Oregon Checker-mallow: Sidalcea oregana

Gentian Family

*White-stemmed Frasera: Frasera albicaulis

Phlox Family

*Narrow-leaved Collomia: Collomia linearis

*Prickly Phlox: Leptodactylon pungens

*Brewer's Navarretia: Navarretia breweri

Mint Family

*Nettle-leaved Horsemint: Agastache urticifolia

Figwort Family

*Hairy Paintbrush: Castilleja pilosa

Rozoel's Penstemon: Penstemon roezellii ?

*Rydberg's Penstemon: Penstemon rydbergii

 

Honeysuckle Family

*Mt. Snowberry: Symphoricarpos oreophilus

Sunflower Family

*Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*Pale Agoseris: Agoseris glauca var. glauca

*Twin Arnica: Arnica sororia

Low Sagebrush: Artemisia arbuscula

Silver Sagebrush: Artemisia canus var. canus

*Tapertip Hawksbeard: Crepis acuminata

Greene's Goldenweed: Ericameria (Haplopappus) greenei ?

Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria (Haplopappus) nauseosa

Green Rabbitbrush: Ericameria (Happlopappus) viscidiflora

*Scabland Fleabane: Erigeron bloomeri

* Spreading Fleabane: Erigeron divergens

* Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis

*Woolly Groundsel: Senecio canus

Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

Butterweed Groundsel: Senecio serra

Animals Seen:

Brewer's Sparrows

Brewer's Blackbirds

Mule Deer

Pronghorn Antelope

Paul Slichter