April 30, 2000

Ramsey Canyon Rd may be accessed from Oregon Highway 19 south of Condon, OR adjacent to Dyer State Wayside or via Carter Hill Rd at Mayville, OR (several miles further south). Ramsey Canyon Rd is about a mile east of OR 19. It climbs gently through rolling farmland with some natural although disturbed vegetation on both sides of the road in strips 20-100 feet wide, with tilled fields a further distance from the road. The site viewed was about 1/2 mile south of the only farmhouse, and the site has a nice view north to Condon, OR some 20 miles away.

Both photos at right are of Donnell's Desert-parsley ? from Ramsey Canyon Road............April 30, 2000.

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

*1. Tolmie's Onion: ?

2. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum

*3. Stiff Milk-vetch: Astragalus conjunctus

4. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

5. Lupine: Lupinus species Not quite in bloom yet.

*6. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

*7. Donnell's Desert-parsley: Lomatium donnellii

*8. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

9. Rigid Sagebrush: Artemisia rigida ?

*10. Serrate Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza serrata

11. Thistle: Cirsium species

12. Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis ? In bud.

13. Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis Nearly in bloom.

14. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

15. Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

16. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata

17. Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza species

18. Hawksbeard: Crepis species

(descending into Badger Canyon from the west)

East of intersection with Carter Hill and Ramsey Canyon Rds

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora

Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

Donnell's Desert-parsley: Lomatium donnellii

Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum

Paul Slichter