[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports: 2006]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington

The Dalles Mountain Road

April 24, 2006

Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus

Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus

* Indicates the Plant is currently in bloom

* Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum

* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii

* Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum (white flowers)

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata

* Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

* Thick-leaf Thelypody: Thelypodium laciniatum var. laciniatum

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

* Bittercherry: Prunus emarginata var. emarginata

* Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus

* Yakima Milkvetch: Astragalus reventiformis

* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (fomrerly var. thompsonianus)

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum

* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii

* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa

* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

* Common Monkeyflower: Erythranthe guttata

* Big Root: Marah oreganus

* Northwest Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea

Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis - In bud high in the Columbia Hills.

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule


Animals Seen:

California Ground Squirrels

Red-tailed Hawk

pair of Harriers

Common Raven

Magpies

Starlings

Chukars

Western Kingbird

Horned Larks

White-crowned Sparrows

Chipping Sparrow


Paul Slichter