Malheur National Forest

May 23, 2003

A view west downstream on Murderer's Creek at Oregon Mine Campground. The alders and willows are just beginning to leaf out. Photographed on May 26, 2003.

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

N 44* 16.546' --- W 119* 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.

Quaking Aspen: Populus tremuloides

Willow: Salix sp.

Tolmie's Onion: Allium tolmiei

Douglas' Harvest Lily: Triteleia grandiflora - Nearing bloom.

*Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Maianthemum stellatum

*Grass Widow: Olsynium inflatum

Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracleoides var. heracleoides

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum (var. ? )

*Siberian Spring Beauty: Claytonia lanceolata

Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva - In bud.

*Mountain Sandwort: Eremogone capillaris ssp. americanum

*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 - Nearing bloom.

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

*American Wintercress: Barbarea orthoceras

*Western Bladderpod: Physaria occidentalis var. occidentalis

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

Lance-leaf Stonecrop: Sedum lanceolatum

*Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (now 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

*Prairie Smoke: Geum triflorum var. ciliatum - Several in bloom.

Sticky Cinquefoil: Potentilla glandulosa ( var. ?)

Graceful Cinquefoil: Potentilla gracilis (var. ?) - Not in bloom.

Pearhip Rose: Rosa woodsii var. ultramontana

*Stiff Milk-vetch: Astragalus conjunctus var. conjunctus

Nevada Leafy Pea: Lathyrus nevadensis var. cusickii ?

*Spurred Violet: Viola adunca

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

Brown's Peony: Paeonia brownii - Nearing bloom.

Sticky Geranium: Geranium viscosissimum (var. ?)

Oregon Checker-mallow: Sidalcea 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

*Shooting Star: Dodecatheon pulchellum

*Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii ?

Skunk-leaved Jacob's Ladder: Polemonium californicum

*Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. capitatum

*Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

*Red Besseya: Besseya rubra

*Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus

*Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

Elk Thistle: Cirsium scariosum (var. ?)

*Dimersia: Dimersia howellii

Scabland Fleabane: Erigeron bloomeri var. bloomeri

Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis

Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatumum var. integrifolium

Woolly Goldenweed: Stenotus languinosus

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

Butterweed Groundsel: Senecio serra

Great Horned Owl

Nighthawk

House Wren

Belted Kingfisher

American Robin

Song Sparrow

Western Wood Peewee

Calliope Hummingbird

Yellow Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Wilson Warbler

Vaux's Swift

Bats (numerous in the evening)

Wild Horses (Tracks only)