[Wildflower Bloom in Central & Eastern Washington]

Horse Heaven Hills

South of Benton City, WA

April 18, 2002

 

Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

Hornseed/ Bur Buttercup: Ranunculus testiculatus

Blue Mustard: Chorispora tenella

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

Milk-vetch: Astragalus species

Woolly Pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

Medick Milk-vetch: Astragalus speirocarpus ?

Sulphur Lupine: Lupinus sulphureus

Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (white-flowered form)

Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species (not A. lycopsoides)

Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

Small Bluebells: Mertensia longiflora

Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

Rosy Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza rosea

Cushion Daisy: Erigeron poliospermus

Narrowleaf Goldenweed: Haplopappus stenophylla

False Agoseris: Microsteris troximoides


Paul Slichter