Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon
Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon: June 21, 2004

Fish Lake Camp Ground

Steens Mt.

A view east along Fish Lake on the Steens Mt. of southeastern Oregon, June 20, 2004.

The North Steens Loop Road is currently open as high as the gate at Jackman Park. One may hike the road above this gate for access to the upper sections of the Steens Mt.

This list notes plants found around the lower end of Fish Lake within 200 meters of the following coordinates:

N42* 44.270' --- W118* 048' --- Elevation: 7369' --- +/- 22'

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

1. Willow: Salix sp.

2. Quaking Aspen: Populus tremuloides

*3. Common Camas: Camassia quamash

*4. Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Smilacina stellata

5. False Hellebore: Veratrum sp.

*6. Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides

*7. Polygonum phyto

*8. Pussytoes: Calyptridium umbellata (Spraguea umbellatum)

*9. Lewisia triphylla

*10. Barbarea orthoceras

*11. Plantain Buttercup: Ranunuculus alismaefolius

*12. Meadow Rue: Thalictrum sp.

*13. Steer's Head: Dicentra cucullaria

*14. Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (L.bulbifera)

*15. Slender Woodland Star: Lithophragma tenellum (old L. glabra ?)

*16. Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia

*17. Bog Saxifrage: Saxifraga oregana

18. Wax Currant: Ribes cereum

19. Whitestem Gooseberry: Ribes inerme

*20. Pink Pinwheels: Horkelia fusca

*21. Graceful Cinquefoil: Potentilla gracilis

22. Lupine: Lupinus sp.

*23. Prairie Violet: Viola nuttallii

*24. Goosefoot Violet: Viola purpurea

25. Oregon Checkermallow: Sidalcea oregana

*26. Sticky Geranium: Geranium viscosissimum

*27. Stemless Evening Primrose: Cammissonia subacaulis

*28. Western Sweet-cicely: Osmorhiza occidentalis

29. Green Gentian: Swertia radiata (Frasera speciosa)

30. Pleated Gentian: Gentiana affinis

*31. Dark-throat Shooting Star: Dodecatheon pulchellum

*32. Yellow-flowered Navarretia: Navarretta breweri

*33. Dwarf Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilis

*34. Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. alpinum

*35. Blue Stickseed: Hackelia micrantha

*36. Broadleaf Bluebells: Mertensia ciliata

*37. Sagebrush Bluebells: Mertensia oblongifolia var. nevadensis

*38. Nettle-leaved Horsemint: Agastache urticifolia

*39. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

*40. Rydberg's Penstemon: Penstemon rydbergii

*41. Twinberry: Lonicera involucrata

*42. Mountain Snowberry: Symphoricarpos rotundifolius var. rotundifolius (S. oreophilus )

43. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata

44. Steen's Mt. Thistle: Cirsium peckii

*45. Orange Sneezeweed: Dugaldia hoopesii (Hymenoxis hoopesii or Helenium hoopesii)

*46. Groundsel: Senecio crassicaulis

*47. Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

*48. Common Dandelion: Taraxacum officinale

The photo above shows a sunset on quaking aspen just below Jackman Park, Steens Mt........... June 20, 2004.
Animals Seen around Fish Lake Camp Ground:

1. Belding Ground Squirrel

2. Sierra Nevada Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

3. Chipmunks

4. Tree Swallows

5. American Robins

6. Brewer's Blackbirds

7. Rock Wren

8. White-crowned Sparrows

9. Mourning Dove

10. Yellow Warbler

11. Sage Thrasher

12. Snipe

13. Red-tailed Hawk

14.Northern Flicker

15. Mule Deer

16. Coyote serenade early in the morning!

Paul Slichter