The photo at right shows a close-up of cliff paintbrush, Castilleja rupicola as seen along the upper McCord Creek Falls Trail on April 2, 2005. The plants grow in cracks on the vertical (or sometimes hanging surfaces) of the cliffs.

*1. Small-flowered Wood-rush: Luzula parviflora -

2. Columbia Tiger Lily: Lilium columbianum - Several with flower buds.

*3. False Solomon Seal: Smilacina racemosa -

*4. Bronze Bells: Stenanthium occidentale -

*5. Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata - A few in bloom.

*6. Candy Flower, Siberian Spring Beauty: Claytonia (Montia) sibirica - Common.

*7. Field Chickweed: Cerastium arvense - In bloom on cliffs along the upper trail.

*8. Columbia Wind Flower: Anemone deltoidea -

*9. Red Columbine: Aquilegia formosa -

*10. Rockslide Larkspur: Delphinium glareosum

*11. Creeping Buttercup: Ranunculus repens - In bloom in the ditch at the parking lot.

*12. Little Buttercup: Ranunculus uncinatus var. parviflorus -

*13. Inside-out-flower: Vancouveria hexandra - Numerous plants.

*14. Western Corydalis: Corydalis scouleri - Mostly out of bloom. A few in bloom in moist areas near the end of the upper trail.

*15. Bleeding Heart: Dicentra formosa -

*16. Pennsylvania Bitter Cress: Cardamine pensylvanica - Several in bloom in moist areas along the lower trail near Elowah Falls.

*17. Rough Wallflower: Erysimum apserum -

*18. Water Cress: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum - In bloom in the ditch at the parking lot.

*19. Broad-leaf Stonecrop: Sedum spathulifolium -

*20. Small-flowered Alumroot: Heuchera micrantha -

*21. Leafy-stem Mitrewort: Mitlella caulescens -

*22. Matted Saxifrage: Saxifraga bronchialis var. vespertina -

*23. Merten's Saxifrage: Saxifraga mertensiana -

*24. Fringe Cup: Tellima grandiflora - Fading bloom.

*25. Youth-on-age: Tolmiea menziesii -

*26. Goat's Beard: Aruncus sylvester - Beginning to bloom.

*27. Wood Strawberry: Fragaria vesca var. bracteata -

*28. Large-leaf Avens: Geum macrophyllum -

*29. Ninebark: Physocarpus capitatus -

*30. Little Wild Rose: Rosa gymnocarpa -

*31. Nootka Rose: Rosa nutkana -

*32. Black Raspberry: Rubus leucodermis -

*33. Thimbleberry: Rubus parviflora -

*34. Leafy Pea: Lathyrus polyphyllus -

*35. Robert Geranium: Geranium robertianum - Fairly abundant.

*36. Cow Parsnip: Heracleum lanatum -

*37. Fern-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum var. dissectum - In bloom atop large rocks in the stream below the lower falls.

*38. Martindale's Desert Parsley: Lomatium martindalei -

*39. Common Sweet Cicely: Osmorhiza chilensis -

*40. Creek Dogwood: Cornus stolonifera var. occidentalis -

*41. White Shooting Star: Dodecatheon dentatum -

*42. Douglasia: Douglasia laevigata - A few still in bloom on cliffs above the upper trail.

*43. Broad-leaf Star Flower: Trientalis latifolia -

*44. Pacific Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum tenuipes -

*45. Sitka Mist Maidens: Romanzoffia sitchensis - Only a few left in bloom.

*46. Branching Stickseed (blue-flowered variety): Hackelia diffusa var. diffusa - In bloom below the guard rail in several places on the cliffs high above.

*47. Cliff Paintbrush: Castilleja rupicola - Good bloom on cliffs along the upper trail.

*48. Cliff Penstemon: Penstemon rupicola - Good bloom on cliffs along the upper trail.

*49. Annual Bedstraw / Cleavers: Galium aparine var. echinospermum -

*50. Scouler's Valerian: Valeriana scouleri - Fairly common bloom.

*51. Broad-leaf Arnica: Arnica latifolia -

*52. Howell's Fleabane: Erigeron howellii -

*53. Columbia Gorge Daisy: Erigeron oreganus - Beginning to bloom.

*54. Woolly Sunflower / Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. lanatum - Beginning to bloom on cliffs on the upper trail.

55. Columbia Gorge Groundsel: Senecio bolanderi var. harfordii - Leaves only.