Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon
Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon

Oregon Highway 206 (milepost 57.9)

May 6, 2000

This spot is east of Condon, OR at the summit of the eastern grade up from Rock Creek. The site has a cutbank of basalt on the north side of the highway, with some fairly undisturbed slopes above it.

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

*1. Taper-tip Onion: Allium accuminatum

2. Grass Widow: Sisyrinchium species Past bloom.

3. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum

*4. Jim Hill Mustard: Sisymbrium altissimum

*5. Sickle Milk-vetch: Astragalus curvicarpus var. subglaber

*6. Woolly Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

*7. Spurred Lupine: Lupinus laxiflorus

*8. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

*9. Pungent Desert-parsley: Lomatium grayi

10. Desert-parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum

*11. Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora

*12. Line-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia linearis

*13. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

*14. Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

*15. Blepharipappus: Blepharipappus scaber

*16. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

17. Dandelion Hawksbeard: Crepis runcinata ? Nearing bloom.

18. Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis Almost in bloom.

19. Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius Almost in bloom.

Paul Slichter