Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon

Columbia & Great Basins of Central Oregon

Lower Deschutes River, north of Sherar Bridge

March 30, 1997

 


1. Narrow leaved Montia Montia linearis Purslane Family

2. Miner's Lettuce Claytonia perfoliata Purslane Family

3. White Plectritis Plectritis macrocera Valerian Family

4. Bulblet Prairie Star Lithophragma glabrum (formerly Lithophragma bulbifera) Saxifrage Family

5. Small-flowered Prairie Star Lithophragma parviflora Saxifrage Family

6. Northwestern Saxifrage Saxifraga integrifolia Saxifrage Family

7. Rigid Fiddleneck Amsinckia retrorsa Borage Family

8. Bristly Popcorn-flower Plagiobothrys hispidus Borage Family

9. Sagebrush Violet Viola trinervata Violet Family

10. Little-leaf Rock Cress Arabis microphylla var. microphylla Mustard Family

11. Spring Whitlow Grass Draba verna Mustard Family

12. Scale Pod Idahoa scapigera Mustard Family

13. Dagger Pod Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Mustard Family

14. Piper's or Gorman's Desert Parsley Lomatium piperi/ gormanii Parsley Family

15. Canby's Desert Parsley Lomatium canbyi Parsley Family

16. Pungent Desert Parsley Lomatium grayi Parsley Family

17. Fern-leaved Desert Parsley Lomatium dissectum Parsley Family

18. Naked Broomrape Orobanche uniflora var. purpurea Broomrape Family

19. Yellow Monkeyflower Mimulus guttatus Figwort Family

20. Liverwort Monkeyflower Mimulus jungermannoides Figwort Family

21. Sagebrush Buttercup Ranunculus glaberrimus Buttercup Family

22. Gold Stars Crocidium multicaule Sunflower Family

 

Animals Seen or heard:

1. Harrier

2. Common Crow

3. American Robin (numerous)

4. Canyon Wren

5. Mule Deer

6. Red-tailed Hawk

7. Starling

8. Red-winged Blackbird

9. Belted Kingfisher

10. Common Merganser

11. California Quail

12. Lewis' Woodpecker

13. Violet-green Swallow


Warm Springs Indian Reservation along US 26.

1. Grass Widow Sisyrinchium douglasii Iris Family

2. Piper's Desert Parsley Lomatium piperi Parsley Family

3. Smooth Prairie Star Lithophragma glabrum Saxifrage Family

4. Filaree Erodium cicutarium Geranium Family

5. Gold Stars Crocidium multicaule Sunflower Family

 

Animals Seen:

1. Raven

2. Common Merganser

3. Red-tailed Hawk

4. Starlings


Picture Rock Pass (Lake County, OR) along Highway 31.

1. Sagebrush Buttercup Ranunculus glaberrimus Buttercup Family

2. Canby's Desert Parsley Lomatium canbyi Parsley Family

2. Spring Whitlow-grass Draba verna Mustard Family

Animals seen:

1. Townsend's Solitaire

2. Northern Flicker

3. Dark-eyed Junco


Lava Beds National Monument

(northern California, just south of Klamath Falls, OR.)

1. Nevada Desert Parsley Lomatium nevadense Parsley Family

2. Sagebrush Buttercup Ranunculus glaberrimus Buttercup Family


Paul Slichter