[Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon]

Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon

Jackman Park & Vicinity

July 15 & 16, 2000


* Indicates flowers currently in bloom

*Taper-tip Onion: Allium accuminatum

*False Hellebore: Veratrum californicum var. californicum (Just beginning to bloom.)

*Wyeth's Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides var. heracloides

*Sulfur-flower Buckwheat: Eriogonum umbellatum

*American Bistort: Polygonum bistortoides

*Mountain Sorrel: Rumex paucifolius

*Prickly Sandwort: Arenaria aculeata

*Douglas' Silene: Silene douglasii

*Monkshood: Aconitum columbianum

*Red Columbine: Aquilegia formosa

*Dwarf Larkspur: Delphinium depauperatum

*Plantain-leaved Buttercup: Ranunuculus alismifolius var. alismifolius

*Straightbeak Buttercup: Ranunculus orthorhynchus var. orthorhynchus

*Veiny Meadowrue: Thalictrum venulosum

*Tansy Mustard: Descurainia species

*Heart-leaved Jewelflower: Streptanthus cordatus

Desert Spray: Holodiscus dumosus var. glabrescens (Nearly in bloom.)

*Pink Pinwheels: Horkelia fusca var. capitatum

*Shrubby Cinquefoil: Pentaphylloides fruticosa

*Sticky Cinquefoil: Potentilla glandulosa var. nevadensis

*Fan-leaved Cinquefoil: Potentilla gracilis

*Tailcup Lupine: Lupinus argenteus var. heteranthus

*White-leaved Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus

*Sticky Geranium: Geranium viscosissimum var. incisum

*Wild Hollyhock: Iliamna rivularis

*Oregon Checker Mallow: Sidalcea oregana var. oregana

*Gray's Lovage: Ligusticum grayii

*Western Sweet Cicely: Osmorhiza occidentalis

*Yampah: Perideridia montana (Perideridia gairdneri ssp. borealis)

*Stemless Evening Primrose: Camissonia subacaulis

*Green Gentian: Swertia radiata (Frasera speciosa)

*Prickly Phlox: Leptodactylon pungens

*Linanthastrum: Linanthastrum nuttallii

*Blue Stickseed: Hackelia micrantha

*Broadleaf Bluebells: Mertensia ciliata

*Nettle-leaved Horsemint: Agastache urticifolia

*Wavy-leaved Paintbrush: Castilleja applegatei var. pinetorum

*Paintbrush: Castilleja species

*Primrose Monkeyflower: Mimulus primuloides

*Copeland's Owl-clover: Orthocarpus cuspidatus ssp. cryptanthus (O. copelandii var. cryptanthus)

*Showy Penstemon: Penstemon speciosus

*Mountain Snowberry: Symphoricarpos rotundifolius

*Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*Hairy Arnica: Arnica mollis

*Leafy-bracted Aster: Aster foliaceous

*Steens Mt. Thistle: Cirsium peckii

*Tapertip Hawksbeard: Crepis acuminata

*Orange Sneezeweed: Dugaldia hoopesii

Green Rabbitbrush: Ericameria viscidifloris (Almost ready to bloom.)

*Subalpine Daisy: Erigeron peregrinus var. callianthemus

*Shaggy Fleabane: Erigeron pumilus var. intermedius

*Showy Fleabane: Erigeron speciosus var. speciosus

*Narrow-headed Goldenweed: Pyrrocoma carthamoides var. cusickii

*Butterweed: Senecio species (serra or crassulus) ?

*Goldenrod: Solidago canadensis var. salebrosa


Animals seen at Jackman Park:

Belding Ground Squirrel

American Robins

Northern Flicker

Common Nighthawk

Red-winged Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Hummingbird

Song Sparrow

Yellow Warbler

Violet-green Swallow


Paul Slichter