[Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central and Eastern Oregon: 2007]
Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central and Eastern Oregon

The Uplands Between Service Creek, OR and the Painted Hills

April 8 , 2007

The photo above shows basalt outcrops and clay-soil slopes viewed north toward the John Day River about ten miles west of Twickenham, OR....................April 8, 2007.
Oregon Highway 207 West of Service Creek, OR

* Indicates wildflower currently in bloom

Tolmie's Onion: Allium tolmiei - In bud.

*Grass Widows: Olsynium inflatum (formerly Sisyrinchium douglasii var. inflatum) -

*Hornseed: Ranunculus testiculatus -

*Spreading Wallflower: Erysium repandum -

*Western Bladderpod: Lesquerella occidentalis var. occidentalis -

*Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia -

*Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

*Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi -

*Broadsheath Desert Parsley: Lomatium vaginatum -

*Midget Phlox: Phlox gracilis (formerly Microsteris gracilis) -

Gerds Creek from Oregon Highway 207 to Twickenham, OR

* Indicates wildflower currently in bloom

*Western Bladderpod: Lesquerella occidentalis var. occidentalis -

*Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia -

*Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. aridus -

*White-stem Blazing Star: Mentzelia albicaulis -

*Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi -

*Cleavers, Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine

*Oregon Sunshine, Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum -

South Twickenham Road from Twickenham, OR to Priest Hole

* Indicates wildflower currently in bloom

*Pale Wallflower: Erysimum occidentale -

*Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia -

*Stiff Milkvetch: Astragalus conjunctus -

*Threadstalk Milkvetch: Astragalus filipes -

*Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium simplex -

*Tessellate Fiddleneck: Amsinckia tesellata -

*Yellow-hairy Indian Paintbrush: Castilleja xanthotricha -

Cusick's Sunflower: Helianthus cusickii - In bud.

Painted Hills: John Day Fossil Beds N.M.

* Indicates wildflower currently in bloom

*Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Fading out of bloom.

*Pale Alyssum: Alyssum alyssoides -

*Bulblet Prairie Stars: Lithophragma glabrum (formerly Lithophragma bulbifera) -

*Henderson's Desert Parsley: Lomatium hendersonii - Already going to seed, although a few still remain in bloom.

*Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - (white flowers)

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