Oregon Highway 206 (milepost 58.8)

May 6, 2000

There's not a lot of good flower habitat along Highway 206 east of Rock Creek, so this spot caught my attention even though it is fairly weedy because there was a strip up to 100 feet wide on the north side of the road where the fields weren't plowed.

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

1. Russian Thistle: Salsola kali

*2. Clasping Pepperweed: Lepidium perfoliatum

*3. Thread-stalk Milk-vetch: Astragalus filipes

*4. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

5. Desert-parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum ?

*7. Nine-leaf Desert-parsely: Lomatium triternatum

*8. Blue Flax: Linum perenne

*9. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

*10. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

*11. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*12. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

13. Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii - A much-branched individual.

14. Slender Hawksbeard: Crepis atrabarba - Nearing bloom.

15. Dandelion Hawksbeard: Crepis runcinata ? - Nearing bloom.

16. Shaggy Fleabane: Erigeron pumilus