[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports: 2006]

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

Columbia Hills and Stacker Butte

(includes portions of the Columbia Hills Natural Area Preserve)

June 3, 2006

Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum spaerocephalum var. sublineare

Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum spaerocephalum var. sublineare

* Indicates the Plant is Currently in Bloom

Rush: Juncus sp. ? - In mud around a small pond just below the lowest microwave tower on Stacker Butte.

* Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum

* Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum -

* Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sublineare

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata - Still in bloom on north-facing slopes.

* Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva

* Franklin's Sandwort: Arenaria franklinii var. franklinii

* Common Mousetail: Myosurus minimus - In mud around a small pond just below the lowest microwave tower on Stacker Butte.

* White Water Buttercup: Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffusus - In mud around a small pond just below the lowest microwave tower on Stacker Butte.

* Sickle-pod Rock Cress: Boechera atrorubens

* Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum

* Yakima Milk-vetch: Astragalus reventiformis

* Few-flowered Pea: Lathyrus pauciflorus var. pauciflorus

* Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus

* Whitish Lupine: Lupinus sulphureus var. bingenensis

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

* Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus

* Upland Prairie Violet: Viola nuttallii var. praemorsa

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - A few still in bloom.

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

* Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida

* Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora

* Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii - A few still in bloom atop the ridge.

* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa

* Rigid Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa

* Common Cryptanth: Cryptantha intermedia

* Corn Gromwell: Lithospermum arvense

* Blue Scorpion-grass: Myosotis stricta

* Scouler's Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys scouleri - In mud around a small pond just below the lowest microwave tower on Stacker Butte.

* Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. acuta

Gairdner's Penstemon: Penstemon gairdneri var. gairdneri

* Sticky-stem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus var. glandulosus

Large-flowered Agoseris: Agoseris grandiflora

* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea - A few still in bloom.

* Bearded Hawksbeard: Crepis barbigera - tall and greenish

* Yellow Desert Daisy: Erigeron linearis

* Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

* Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus - A few still in bloom.

* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinalis


Animals Seen Along this Hike:

3 Red-tailed Hawks

Harrier

Kestrel

Lewis' Woodpecker

Gray Partridge

California Quail

Western Bluebirds

Yellow-bellied Marmot: Marmota flaviventris

Alligator Lizard

Short-horned Lizard

Western Fence Lizard


Paul Slichter