Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon
Wildflower Bloom in Central Oregon:

Trail to Little Wildhorse Lake

Steens Mt.

September 9, 2000

Little Wildhorse Lake, Steens Mt........September 9, 2000.
Weather: Clear with moderate wind (cold in wind, warm when protected from the wind). The last snow fell a week before and none remains visible here.)

* indicates flowers currently in bloom

Trail to Little Wildhorse Lake:

1. Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides var. ?

2. Alpine Lady Fern: Athyrium alpestre var. americanum (Spores well-formed.)

3. Rock Sword Fern: Polystichum scopulinum (Spores well-formed.)

*4. Wyeth Buckwheat: Eriogonum heracloides var. heracloides

*5. Cushion Buckwheat: Eriogonum ovalifolium var. nivale

*6. Cushion Buckwheat: Eriogonum ovalifolium var. ovalifolium (Yellow flowers)

*7. Sulpher Buckwheat: Eriogonum umbellatum var. ?

*8. Alpine Chickweed: Cerastium beeringianum var. capillare

*9. Roundleaf Alumroot: Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina

*10. Desert Spray: Holodiscus dumosus var. glabrescens

*11. Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. lobbii

*12. Collomia: Collomia species ? (Cream flowers with blue anthers)

*13. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*14. Mountain Agoseris: Agoseris glauca var. monticola

15. Mountain Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana (Nearing bloom)

*16. Dwarf Mountain Butterweed: Senecio fremontii var. fremontii

Animals Seen:

Golden Eagle

unidentified Hawks

2 Prairie Falcons

Mountain Bluebird

Rock Wren

View south down Wildhorse Canyon towards the Alvord Desert and the Pueblo Mts..........September 9, 2000. Wildhorse Lake is viewed in the shade at the right.
Little Wildhorse Lake

*1. Cushion Buckwheat: Eriogonum ovalifolium var. ovalifolium

*2. Alpine Sorrel: Oxyria digyna

*3. Prickly Sandwort: Arenaria aculeata

*4. Roundleaf Alumroot: Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina

*5. Brook Saxifrage: Saxifraga odontoloma

*6. Wax Currant: Ribes cereum

7. Mountain Gosseberry: Ribes montigenum (in fruit)

*8. Gordon's Ivesia: Ivesia gordonii

*9. Shrubby Cinquefoil: Pentaphylloides fruticosa

*10. Sticky Cinquefoil: Potentilla glandulosa var. ?

*11. Varying Cinquefoil: Potentilla versicolor

*12. Gray's Lovage: Ligusticum grayii

13. Ranger's Buttons: Sphenoschadium capitatum (in seed)

*14. Alpine Laurel: Kalmia microphylla

*15. Steen's Mt. Penstemon: Penstemon davidsonii var. praeteritus

*16. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*17. Mountain Agoseris: Agoseris glauca var. glauca

18. Pussytoes: Antennaria species (not in bloom)

*19. Longleaf Arnica: Arnica longifolia

20. Mountain Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana (Nearing bloom)

*21. Parry's Aster: Aster foliaceus var. parryi

*22. Steen's Mt. Thistle: Cirsium peckii

*23. Orange Sneezeweed: Dugaldia hoopesii

*24. Discoid Goldenweed: Ericameria discoidea

*25. Cut-leaved Daisy: Erigeron compositus var. glabratus

*26. Thick-leaved Groundsel: Senecio crassulus

*27. Dwarf Mountain Butterweed: Senecio fremontii var. fremontii

Animals Seen:

1. Brewer's Blackbirds

2. Prairie Falcon

3. Whirligig beetles in lake

Paul Slichter