[Currently Blooming Wildflowers in Central Washington]
Currently Blooming Wildflowers in the Columbia Basin of Central Washington.

May 10, 1997

 

Phlox longifolia at right.
Northwest of Vernita Bridge along the highway to Priest Rapids Dam

1. Silver-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata

2. Narrow-leaved Phacelia: Phacelia linearis

3. Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum- Out of bloom and drying up.

4. Pale Evening-Primirose: Oenothera pallida

5. Desert Parsley: Lomatium sp

6. Milkvech: Astragalus sp

7. Pale Bastard Toad-flax: Commandra umbellata var. pallida

8. Veiny Dock: Rumex venosus

9. Rigid Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa

10. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

11. White-stemmed Blazing Star: Mentzelia albicaulis

12. Long-leaved Phlox: Phlox longifolia

13. Needle-leaf Navarretia?: Navarretia intertexta

14. Sand Penstemon, Sharp-leaved Penstemon: Penstemon accuminatus

15. White Layia: Layia glandulosa

16. Hymenopappus: Hymenopappus filifolius var. filifolius

17. Lance-leaf Scurf-pea: Psoralea lanceolata

18. Heart-leaf buckwheat (yellow flowers): Eriogonum compositum

19. Turpentine Cymopterus: Cymopteris terebinthinus var. terebinthinus

Columbia River Shoreline east of Priest Rapids Dam

1. Phlox?: Phlox sp.- Dense mats several feet in diameter, upright to 10 inches tall. Sticky stems.

2. Douglas' Brodiaea: Brodiaea douglasii

3. Pale Evening-Primirose: Oenothera pallida

4. Pale Bastard Toad-flax: Commandra umbellata var. pallida

5. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

6. Showy Townsendia: Townsendia florifer

7. Biscuit-root: Lomatium macrocarpum- In fruit, drying up.

8. Round-head Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum

9. Spiny Hopsage: Grayia spinosa

Yakima Indian Reservation (along Highway 97)

1. Cushion Daisy: Erigeron poliospermus

2. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza careyana

3. Mule's Ears: Wyethia amplexicaulis

4. Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum

5. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

6. Cusick's Sunflower: Helianthus cusickii

7. Pungent Desert-parsley: Lomatium grayii

8. Bare-stem Desert-parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

9. Slender-fruited Desert-parsley: Lomatium leptocarpum

10. Spurred Lupine: Lupinus laxiflorus

11. Yakima Milk-vetch: Astragalus reventiformis

12. Leafy Pea: Lathyrus sp.

13. Rough Wallflower: Erysimum asperum

14. American Wintercress: Barbarea orthoceras

15. Blue Mustard: Chorispora tenella

16. Hoary Cress: Cardaria draba

17. Linear-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia linearis

18. Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum

19. Howell's Brodiaea: Brodiaea howellii

20. Common Camas: Camassia quamash

21. Panicled Death Camas: Zigadenus paniculatus

22. Western Iris: Iris missouriensis

23. Long-leaved Phlox: Phlox longifolia

24. Common Monkey-flower: Mimulus guttatus

25. Thompson's Paintbrush: Castilleja thompsonii

26. Black Cottonwood Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa

27. Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana

28. Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

29. Bitter Brush: Purshia tridentata

30. Common Chokecherry: Prunus virginiana var. melanocarpa

31. Red-twig Dogwood: Cornus stolonifera

Ridgetop (Rattlesnake Hills) about 8 miles NE of Sunnyside, WA

1. Douglas' Brodiaea: Brodiaea douglasii

2. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

3. Long-leaved Phlox: Phlox longifolia

4. Lupine: Lupinus species

5. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza careyana

6. Milk-vetch: Astragalus species

Paul Slichter