Three Bench Loop: Park at Doug's Beach about 2 miles east of Lyle, WA. Note that this route goes up into an area where hikers can get themselves into trouble by accidentally trespassing onto private rangeland. There are no fences or signage here indicating where property lines are. The private land owner really does not like people on his land, and he regularly patrols it on ATV or horseback!
Common Camas: Camassia quamash - A few with flower buds showing.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Beginning to bloom out.
* Meadow Death-camas: Toxicoscordion venenosus var. venenosum - A few in bloom.
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Beginning to bloom out.
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata - Many in bloom.
* Chickweed: Stellaria media - A few in bloom.
* Hornseed: Ceratocephala testiculata - Several along SR-14.
* Little Western Bitter Cress: Cardamine oligosperma - Many in bloom, many going to seed.
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna - Many in bloom.
* Fringe Pods: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Numerous
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (Now included as part of Lithophragma glabrum) - Several plants seen.
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum - Fairly common, especially on steep slopes or along the upper edges of cliffs.
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum - Numerous.
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia ? - Fairly common at the east end of the trail.
* Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii - Only one plant seen in bloom.
* Bicolored Lupine: Lupinus bicolor - A few in bloom, numerous young plants not in bloom yet.
* Sand Clover: Trifolium wildenovii - Lots of small leaves only on the climb up at the east end.
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium - Common.
* Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi - A few in bloom.
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Numerous plants in bloom, although the peak bloom hasn't been reached.
* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - A few in bloom.
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsely: Lomatium papilioniferum - Numerous bloom.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - A few in bloom.
* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium tridentatum var. tridentatum - A few in bloom.
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon/ Primula poeticum - A few in bloom along the creek near the east trailhead and sporadically along the trail.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis - Numerous.
* Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii - Common in talus areas or under oak trees.
* Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata - Numerous in moist soils.
* Rigid Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa - Fairly common.
* Rusty Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys nothofulvus - Numerous.
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus - A few in bloom.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Numerous.
* Common Monkey Flower: Erythranthe guttata - Beginning to bloom in seeps and along the vernal streams.
* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum (former var. purpurea) - Fairly common.
* Bedstraw: Galium aparine - Numerous, although only a few in bloom.
* Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus - A few vines with flowers emerging.
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera - Numerous.
* Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana X deltoidea - In full bloom above the highway, starting to bloom above on the benches.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Many in bloom at the west end.
* Old-man-in-the-spring/ Common Butterweed: Senecio vulgaris - A few in bloom along the highway.
Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - The terminal and lateral buds are beginning to open.
1. Bald Eagle (One, chasing a nearly plucked gull, then after failure, perched on a limb found out in the Columbia River).
3. Prairie Falcon
4. Northern Flicker (One)
5. Ravens (a pair)
6. Scrub Jays (Two)
7. Dark-eyed Junco (Many)
8. Canon Wren (One inquisitive wren seen at close range)
9. California Ground Squirrel (One, on cliffs above SR 14)
10. Western Fence Lizard/ Blue belly