[Wildflowers in Bloom in Central & Eastern Oregon - 2004]

Oregon Highway 207

Service Creek, OR to Mitchell, OR

May 1, 2004

Cockscomb Cryptantha: Cryptantha celosioides

Cockscomb Cryptantha: Cryptantha celosioides

* Indicates a wildflower currently in bloom.

*Tolmie's Onion: Allium tolmiei

*Douglas' Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora

*Panicled Death Camas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum

*Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. inflatum - Mostly bloomed out except at the highest elevation along the highway.

*Pale Alyssum: Alyssum alyssoides

*Western Bladderpod: Physaria occidentalis ssp. occidentalis

*Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

*Antelope Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata

*Stiff Milkvetch: Astragalus conjunctus - (plants have purplish flowers, purple-tipped keel, narrowly linear leaflets, and about 1/2 the size of other A. conjunctus I've seen. Possibly Astragalus reventus?

*Sickle Milkvetch: Astragalus curvicarpus (var. subglaber?)

*Thread-stalk Milkvetch: Astragalus filipes

*Cusick's Peavine: Lathyrus nevadensis var. cusickii

*Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus

*Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. aridus

*White-stemmed Mentzelia: Mentzelia albicaulis

*Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayii

*Desert Parsley: Lomatium vaginatum ?

*Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*Longleaf Phlox: Phlox longiflora

*Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

*Cockscomb Cryptantha: Cryptantha celosioides

*Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

*Gray Ball Sage: Salvia dorii - In bloom at Mitchell, OR

*Narrow-leaved Skullcap: Scutellaria angustifolia - In bloom at Mitchell, OR

*Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. acuta

*White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

*Woolly Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

*Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus


Paul Slichter