[Wildflower Bloom in Central and Eastern Oregon: 2011]
Oregon Highway 206

Between Wasco, OR and Condon, OR

June 2, 2011

 

 

* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.

* Soft Brome: Bromus hordeaceus

* Cheat Grass: Bromus tectorum

* Bluegrass: Poa secunda ssp. juncifolia

* Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda ssp. secunda

Medusahead: Taenitherum caput-medusae

* Rock Onion: Allium macrum

Sagebrush Mariposa: Calochortus macrocarpus var. macrocarpus

* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii

* Heart-leaved Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum - Yellow flowers.

* Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracleoides var. heracleoides

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum (var. proliferum ?)

Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis

Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum

* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

* Tall Tumblemustard: Sisymbrium altissimum

* Thick-leaved Thelypody: Thelypodium laciniatum var. laciniatum

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Choke Cherry: Prunus virginiana (var. melanocarpa ?)

* Stiff Milkvetch: Astragalus conjunctus var. conjunctus

* Glabrous Sickle Milkvetch: Astragalus curvicarpus var. subglaber

* Thread-stalk Milkvetch: Astragalus filipes

* Longspur Lupine: Lupinus arbustus

* Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. aridus

* Hybrid Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus x sericeus

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Annual Willowherb: Epilobium brachycarpum

* Poison-hemlock: Conium maculatum

* Cous: Lomatium cous - Fading out of bloom.

Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora

* Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydorphyllum capitatum (var. ) - No flowers so ID could not be confirmed.

* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

* Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus

Teasel: Dipsacus sylvestris

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

* Serrate Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza serrata

* Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii

Chicory: Cichorum intybus

Showy Rubber Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa (var. speciosa ?)

Columbia Goldenweed: Ericameria resinosa

* Threadleaf Fleabane: Erigeron filifolius

* Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis

* Woolly Sunflower, Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. lanatum

* Salsify: Tragopogon dubius

Animals Seen Along This Route:

Red-tailed Hawk

Western Kingbird

Paul Slichter