Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon
Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon

Hay Creek Canyon

Mikkalo Rd between Mikkalo, OR and Oregon Highway 206

April 23, 2008

Hay Creek Canyon viewed south from Mikkalo Road............April 23, 2000.

Hay Creek Canyon is a scenic canyon with what appears to have a fair amount of native vegetation on its slopes. However, the gravel road bed is steep, and not maintained during the early season. In addition, the canyon is in private ownership and large signs at the top of both the east and west grades warn anyone about leaving the roadbed.

* indicates the wildflower is in bloom

*Bicolored Cluster Lily: Brodiaea howellii

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum

Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

*Spurred Lupine: Lupinus laxiflorus ?

*Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

*Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

*Common Monkey Flower: Mimulus guttatus

Cut-leaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii

Common Mullein: Verbascum thapsus

*Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata

*Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana ?

Wavy-leaf Thistle: Cirsium undulatum

Fleabane: Erigeron species (tall with yellow rays) ?

Match Brush: Gutierrezia sarothrae

Paul Slichter