Tom McCall Nature Preserve
Overlook & Trail to and around Pond
March 6 , 2005
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Only several in bloom.
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Waning bloom.
Veiny Dock: Rumex venosus - Leaves emerging from the sand near the road.
* Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis - A few plants seen in bloom.
* Spring Whitlow Grass: Draba verna - numerous
* Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera - numerous
* Smooth Prairie Stars: Lithophragma glabrum - Fairly numerous although small.
* Rusty-hair Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula - A few beginning to bloom.
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium - Moderate bloom.
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Some decent sized plants in bloom.
* Gorman's Salt and Pepper: Lomatium gormanii
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum - A few plants in bloom.
* Biscuit Root: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow flowered form) - Beginning to bloom, and fairly numerous.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Fairly numerous, nearing the end of bloom.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - A few in bloom.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Moderate bloom.
Animals Seen: western bluebirds, scrub jays