Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon

Wildflower Bloom on Strawberry Mountain

Strawberry Mt. Wilderness

Malheur National Forest

September 4, 1999

Flower head of Orange Agoseris: Agoseris aurantiaca

Orange Agoseris: Agoseris aurantiaca
I should point out that the late bloom on Strawberry Mountain during 1999 was due to very high snowfall in the mountains with a long, cold spring. The entire north-facing slope of Strawberry Mountain still contained quite a bit of snow on it in late June when normally only the upper slopes would have snow on them at this time of year during an average year.

Piper's Golden Buckwheat: Eriogonum flavum var. piperi

Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracleoides var. heracleoides

Sulphur Flower: Eriogonum umbellatum (var. ellipticum ?)

Mountain Sorrel: Oxyria digyna

Pussypaws: Calyptridium umbellata

King's Sandwort: Eremogone kingii?

Scouler's Silene: Silene scouleri var. scouleri ?

Red Columbine: Aquilegia formosa

Alpine Alumroot: Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina

Short-leaved Cinquefoil: Potentilla brevifolia

Kellogg's Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus

Rose Willow-herb: Epilobium obcordatum

Gray's Lovage: Ligusticum grayii

Linanthastrum: Linanthastrum nuttallii

Desert Phlox: Phlox austromontana?

Purple Phacelia: Phacelia hastata var. alpina

Silverleaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata var. hastata

Silky Phacelia: Phacelia sericea var. ciliosa

Glandular Paintbrush: Castilleja glandulifera

Common Paintbrush: Castilleja miniata var. miniata

Taper-leaved Penstemon: Penstemon attenuatus var. palustris

Sitka Valerian: Valeriana sitchensis

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Orange Agoseris: Agoseris aurantiaca

Pale Agoseris: Agoseris glauca var. glauca ? or (Mountain Agoseris: Agoseris monticola ?)

Pearly Everlasting: Anaphalis margaritacea

Rabbitbrush Goldenweed: Ericameria bloomeri?

Dwarf Mountain Fleabane: Erigeron compositus var. discoideus

Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

Hawkweed: Hieracium species

Woolly Groundsel: Packera cana

Black Head: Rudbeckia occidentalis var. occidentalis

Leafybract Aster: Symphyotrichum foliaceum (var. apricum or var. parryi)

Northern Goldenrod: Solidago multiradiata


Paul Slichter