[Central Oregon Wildflower Bloom Reports]

Graveyard Butte Crossing

White River

May 12, 2001

N 45*36.390' W 121*20.127'

View of the forest habitat at the Graveyard Butte Crossing of the White River along the White River Rd.

1. Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa

2. Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis

*3. Oregon White Oak Quercus garryana

*4. Bicolored Cluster Lily Brodiaea howellii

5. Yellow Bells Fritillaria pudica (pods)

*6. Meadow Death Camas Zigadenus venonosus

*7. Bastard Toad-flax Commandra umbellata var. californica

*8. Heartleaf Buckwheat Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

9. Tall Buckwheat Eriogonum elatum

10. Buckwheat Eriogonum sphaerocephalum or heracloides (nearing bloom)

*11. Miners Lettuce Claytonia perfoliata (Basal leaves lanceolate to elliptical)

*12. Upland Larkspur Delphinium nuttallianum

13. Shining Oregon Grape Berberis aquifolium

*14. Wallflower Erysimum aspermum ?

15. Wax Currant Ribes cereum

*16. Small-flowered Prairie Star Lithophragma parviflora

*17. Serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia (only a few plants remain in bloom)

*18. Antelope Bitterbrush Purshia tridenata

*19. Kellogg's Spurred Lupine Lupinus argenteus var. heteranthus (formerly L. caudatus)- (beginning bloom)

20. Velvet Lupine Lupinus leucophyllus (a few with developing racemes)

*21. Bighead Clover Trifolium macrocephalum (a few in bloom)

*22. Filaree Erodium cicutarium

*23. Chervil Anthriscus scandicina

*24. Fern-leaf Desert Parsley Lomatium dissectum

*25. Suksdorf's Desert Parsley Lomatium suksdorfii

*26. Nine-leaf Desert Parsley Lomatium triternatum

27. Shooting Star Dodecatheon sp (leaves only)

28. Large-flowered Collomia Collomia grandiflora

*29. Hood's Phlox Phlox hoodii ?

30. Ballhead Waterleaf Hydrophyllum capitatum (var. thompsonii ?- leaves only)

*31. Tarweed Fiddleneck Amsinckia lycopsoides

*32. Puccoon Lithospermum ruderale

*33. Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not Myosotis discolor

*34. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary Collinsia parviflora

*35. White Plectritis Plectritis macrocera

36. Yarrow Achillea millefolium (Nearly in bloom)

*37. Low Pussytoes Antennaria dimorpha

*38. Heart-leaf Arnica Arnica cordifolia

*39. Carey's Balsamroot Balsamorhiza careyana

40. Hoary False Yarrow Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii (basal lvs only)

41. Hawksbeard Crepis sp.

42. Yellow Desert Daisy Erigeron linearis (basal lvs only)

43. Long-bearded Hawkweed Hieracium longiberbe ?- (basal leaves only)

44. Microseris Microseris sp

45. Gray Horsebrush Tetradymia canescens (nearing bloom)


Paul Slichter