These are popular trails on weekends, with lots of hikers and some canine friends. One can also had an extra 2 miles to this trip by hiking to Triple Falls higher up Oneonta Gorge. At this time, the leaves of many plants may be seen, which is good ID practice and anticipation of what will come later! Much of the Oregon side of the Gorge is still in shade at midday at this time of year.

*1. Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - Still in bloom at medium and higher elevations.

*2. Fairy Bells: Disporum hookeri var. oreganum - Common.

*3. Chocolate Lily: Fritillaria lanceolata - Several still in bloom, especially on upper sections of the Triple Falls trail.

4. Columbia Tiger Lily: Lilium columbianum - Several plants are up to 2 feet tall.........no flower buds yet.

*5. False Solomon Seal: Smilacina racemosa - (Several up to a foot tall and well formed, but no flower buds visible yet.)

6. Bronze Bells: Stenanthium occidentale - In bud, within several days of bloom along the upper Triple Falls Trail.

*7. Fairy Slipper: Calypso bulbosa - Several seen in bloom.

*8. Miner's-lettuce: Claytonia (Montia) perfoliata - Fairly numerous, especially at lower elevations.

*9. Candy Flower: Claytonia (Montia) sibirica - Common.

*10. Little-leaf Montia: Montia parvifolia - A few in bloom along the upper Triple Falls Trail.

*11. Big-leaf Sandwort: Moehringia (Arenaria) macrophylla - Fairly common.

*12. Field Chickweed: Cerastium arvense - Common in drier, open, talus slopes.

*13. Chickweed: Stellaria media - Common, especially along the road.

*14. Baneberry: Actaea rubra - Several plants seen in bloom.

*15. Rockslide Larkspur: Delphinium glareosum ?........I didn't stop to check.

*16. Western Meadow-rue: Thalictrum occidentale - Good bloom.

*17. Western Corydalis: Corydalis scouleri - Several plants in bloom in slopes above Oneonta Falls.

*18. Bleeding Heart: Dicentra formosa - Common.

*19. American Winter Cress: Barbarea orthoceras - Several plants seen.

*20. Slender Toothwort: Cardamine pulcherrima var. tenella - Scattered, decreasing bloom.

*21. Honesty: Lunaria annua - Some plants in bloom along the old highway near Oneonta Gorge.

*22. Cascade Oregon Grape: Mahonia (Berberis) nervosa - Most plants past bloom now.

*23. Small-flowered Alumroot: Heuchera micrantha - Fairly common, but not at their peak yet.

*24. Merten's Saxifrage: Saxifraga mertensiana - Fairly common on moist cliffs.

*25. Western Saxifrage: Saxifraga occidentalis - In bloom around Oneonta Gorge and on moist cliffs at higher elevations.

*26. Fringe Cup: Tellima grandiflora - Good bloom.

*27. Youth-on-age: Tolmiea menziesii - A few plants in bloom.

*28. Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia - Several plants in bloom near Triple Falls.

*29. Woods Strawberry: Fragaria vesca var. bracteata - Fairly common.

*30. Large-leaf Avens: Geum macrophyllum - Fairly common.

*31. Trailing Blackberry: Rubus ursinus - A few plants seen in open forest.

*32. Leafy Pea: Lathyrus polyphyllus - ? or Vicia americana ?.........Sorry I didn't have time to check!

*33. Robert Geranium: Geranium robertianum - Unfortunately, all too common!

*34. Martindale's Desert Parsley: Lomatium martindalei - A number of plants seen on sunnier cliffsides.

*35. Pacific Dogwood: Cornus nuttallii - Several trees seen in full bloom.

*36. Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata - Fairly numerous.

*37. Sitka Mist Maidens: Romanzoffia sitchensis - Lots of plants in bloom on moist cliffs at all elevations.

*38. Red-dead-nettle: Lamium purpureum - A few in bloom next to the road at the mouth of the Oneonta Gorge.

*39. Large-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia grandiflora - Good bloom in sunny spots along the upper Triple Falls trail.

*40. Chickweed monkey Flower: Mimulus alsinoides -

*41. Red Elderberry: Sambucus racemosa var. arborescens - A plants still in bloom.

*42. Scouler's Valerian: Valeriana scouleri - Common.

43. Streambank Arnica: Arnica amplexicaulis - Several nice-sized plants on gravelly shores along Oneonta Creek.

*44. Broad-leaf Arnica: Arnica latifolia - A few plants beginning to bloom.

*45. Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale - A few in bloom, especially near impacted areas next to the road.