[Central Oregon Wildflower Bloom Reports]

Alder Creek along F.S. Rd # 140

Access to Skookum and Alder Creek Trailheads #110 & #96

Umatilla National Forest

July 1, 2001

Riparian meadow and upland meadows to west of creek.

Elevation- 4248'------N45*04.325'------W119*26.841'------(+/ - 34')

* Indicates the wildflower is in bloom.

 

1. Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa

*2. White False Hellebore Veratrum californicum

*3. Bog-candle Platanthera dilatata

*4. Miner's Lettuce Claytonia perfoliata

*5. Long-leaf Starwort Stellaria longifolia ?

*6. Monkshood Aconitum columbianum

*7. Straightbeak Buttercup Ranunculus orthorhynchus var. platyphyllus

*8. Little Buttercup Ranunculus unciniatus

9. Wood's Strawberry Fragaria vesca var. bracteata

10. Broad-petal Strawberry Fragaria virginiana var. platypetala

*11. Large-leaved Avens Geum macrophyllum

12. Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum var. ciliatum

*13. Sticky Cinquefoil Potentilla glandulosa (var. ?)

14. Graceful Cinquefoil Potentilla gracilis (var. ?

*15. Tailcup Lupine Lupinus argenteus var. heteranthus

*16. Velvet Lupine Lupinus leucophyllus var. tenuispicus

*17. Red Clover Trifolium pratense

*18. White Clover Trifolium repens

*19. Oregon Checker-mallow Sidalcea oregana ssp. oregana

*20. Cow Parsnip Heracleum lanatum

*21. Panicled Bluebells Mertensia paniculata

*22. Self-heal Prunella vulgaris

*23. Taper-leaf Penstemon Penstemon attenuatus var. attenuatus (blue-flowered form)

*24. American Brooklime Veronica americana

25. Annual Bedstraw Galium aparine

*26. Northern Bedstraw Galium boreale

*27. Yarrow Achillea millefolium

*28. Rosy Pussy-toes Antennaria rosea

*29. Heart-leaf Arnica Arnica cordifolia

*30. Twin Arnica Arnica sororia

*31. Elk Thistle Cirsium scariosum (var. ?)


Paul Slichter