Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon

Columbia & Great Basins of Central Oregon

Big Summit Prairie, Ochoco National Forest

May 23, 1998

View of the eastern edge of Big Summit Prairie, Ochoco N.F........May 23, 1998.

Onion: Allium species - with rounded scape.

Tolmie's Onion: Allium tolmiei var. tolmiei

Common Camas: Camassia quamash ssp. breviflora

False Solomon Seal: Maianthemum racemosum ssp. amplexicaule

Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Maianthemum stellatum

Grass Widow: Sisyrinchium inflatum

American Bistort: Bistorta bistortoides

Narrow-leaved Montia: Montia linearis

Leatherleaf Clematis: Clematis hirsutissima

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum

Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus

Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis

Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens

Sicklepod Rockcress: Boechera pauciflora (old Arabis sparsiflora var. subvillosa)

American Wintercress: Barbarea orthoceras

Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

Wild Candytuft: Noccaea fendleri ssp. glauca (old Thlaspi fendleri var. glaucum)

Bulblet Prairiestar: Lithophragma bulbifera (now L. glabrum)

Smooth Prairiestar: Lithophragma glabrum

Small-flowered Prairiestar: Lithophragma parviflorum

Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia

Wax Currant: Ribes cereum var. cereum

Broadpetal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana var. platypetala

Prairie Smoke: Geum triflorum var. ciliatum

Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum

Clover: Trifolium species

Hooked Spur Violet: Viola adunca

Valley Yellow Violet: Viola vallicola

Obscure Evening-primrose: Camissonia andina

Slender-fruited Desert Parsley: Lomatium leptocarpum

Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

Nine-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

Dark-throat Shooting Star: Dodecatheon pulchellum var. monanthum - Includes numerous albino plants.

Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

Dwarf Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilus

Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum (var. capitatum ?)

Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

Small Bluebells: Mertensia longiflora

Paintbrush: Castilleja species - Yellowish upper surfaces, purple-red lower herbage.

Applegate's Paintbrush: Castilleja applegatei var. pinetorum

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Edible Valerian: Valeriana edulis

Pussytoes: Antennaria species

Cushion Fleabane: Erigeron poliospermus

False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

Yellow Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale

White-rayed Wyethia: Wyethia helianthoides


white-rayed wyethia at Big Summit Prairie, Ochoco N.F..........May 23, 1998.

Photo above of white-rayed wyethia at Big Summit Prairie, Ochoco N.F..........May 23, 1998.

Paul Slichter