March 28, 2007

Selah Butte

* 1. Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Beginning to fade out of bloom except in shady areas.

2. Thyme-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum thymoides -

3. Bitteroot: Lewisia rediviva -

* 4. Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus - Only one plant seen in bloom near the summit.

* 5. Hornseed Buttercup: Ranunculus testiculatus - Abundant at lower elevations.

* 6. Bulblet Prairie-star: Lithophragma glabrum (formerly Lithophragma bulbifera) - In bud above, in bloom below 2500'.

7. Wax Currant: Ribes cereum -

* 8. Woolly Pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii - Several plants seen in bloom.

9. Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - In bud.

* 10. Sagebrush Violet: Viola trinervata - Fairly numerous.

* 11. Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi -

12. Fern-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum var. eatonii -

* 13. Hamblen's Lomatium: Lomatium farinosum var. hambleniae -

* 14. Midget Phlox: Phlox gracilis (formerly Microsteris gracilis) - Fairly numerous.

15. Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha - In bud.

16. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata -

17. Three-tip Sagebrush: Artemisia tripartitia -

* 18. Hooker's Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza hookeri - A few plants beginning to bloom below 2000'.

19. Dusty Maidens: Chaenactis douglasii - Basal leaves present.

20. Narrow-leaf Goldenweed: Stenotus stenophylla (formerly Haplopappus stenophyllus) - In bud.

21. False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides (formerly Microseris troximoides) - Basal leaves only.

Meadowlark

Horned Larks - Numerous.