Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon: 2007

Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon

Summit of Tygh Ridge

US Highway 197

April 19, 2007

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

1. Green-banded Mariposa Lily: Calochortus macrocarpus - Basal leaves only.

2. Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

3. Douglas' Buckwheat: Eriogonum douglasii var. tenue

4. Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides

5. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum

6. Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum - Still not in bloom yet.

7. Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera - Going to seed.

*8. Dagger Pod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides - Most plants of this species now in full bloom.

9. Jim Hill Mustard: Sisymbrium altissimum - Only last year's "tumbleweeds" seen.

10. Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Going to seed.

* 11. Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

* 12. Prairie Smoke: Geum triflorum - Beginning to bloom.

13. Milk-vetch: Astragalus sp. - Prostrate form. Not in bloom yet.

14. Stiff Milk-vetch: Astragalus conjunctus (Only the basal leaves seen at this time.)

15. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

16. Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus (formerly Lupinus laxiflorus) - (A number of plants beginning to form leaves.)

* 17. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium -

18. Chervil: Anthriscus scandicina -

* 19. Gray-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum -

20. Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule -

* 21. Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum -

* 22. Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii -

* 23. Corn Gromwell: Lithospermum arvense -

24. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Plants growing rapidly but not in bloom yet.

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

* 26. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera -

* 27. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana ? - Not blooming at this site, but seen in bloom across the highway.

* 28. Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.

29. Tumble Knapweed: Centaurea diffusa - Basal leaves seen.

30. Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis - Basal leaf tufts seen of several plants.


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