Weather: Temperature - high 60s to low 70s. Mostly sunny with very light winds!
* Pale-anthered Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Just beginning to bloom under shrubbery just below the north side of the summit ridge.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica- Fading out of bloom on the upper, north-facing slopes of the ridge.
Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum -
Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sublineare -
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum -
Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum -
* Lance-leaf Springbeauty: Claytonia lanceolata -
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata -
Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva -
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum -
* The Dalles Mt. Buttercup: Ranunculus triternatus- A few still in bloom at the highest elevations and on the north-facing slopes.
* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii - Beginning to bloom under shrubbery on the north side of the ridge.
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna -
Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera - Pods only.
* Dagger Pod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides - Beginning to bloom at the higher elevations.
* Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Still in bloom with lots of ripe seed pods.
* Bulblet prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (Now included as part of Lithophragma glabrum) - In bloom at lower elevations.
* Small-flowerd Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum - Beginning to bloom.
Brittle-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa - In bud.
Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia - In bud.
Ocean Spray: Holodiscus discolor -
* Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii - A few plants seen in bloom.
Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus) - In bud along the Dalles Mt. Road.
* Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - Beginning to bloom.
* Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi - A few still in bloom at the highest elevations. Mostly going to seed.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium gormanii - A few plants in bloom at the highest elevations.
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum - Abundant bloom (very pungent fragrance) at lower to middle elevations.
* Gray-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum - White flowered form (with a few yellow-flowered forms), fairly common above 2000'.
* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - Small plants, but numerous bloom.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - A few plants still in bloom on the upper, north-facing slopes where snow lay late into the spring.
* Nine Leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium tridentatum var. triternatum - Fairly common.
* Watson's Desert Parsley: Lomatium watsonii - Very much in bloom.
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - Fairly good bloom at the highest elevations.
* Midget Phlox: Phlox gracilis (formerly Microsteris gracilis) - A few in bloom on middle elevation slopes.
* Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii - Beginning bloom at low and middle elevations.
* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa - Beginning to bloom at middle elevations.
* Little Bells Polemonium: Polemonium micranthum -
* Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii -
* Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa - Small plants, not common yet.
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus -A few plants seen.
* Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. acuta - A few dozen plants are now beginning to bloom in the moister soils along the road, above the parking area.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Abundant at most elevations.
Hotrock Penstemon: Penstemon deustus var. variabilis -
* Mountain Kittentails: Veronica missurica ssp. stellata -
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus - Beginning to leaf out under the oak trees.
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera - Beginning to bloom.
* Big Root, Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus - Fairly abundant along the Dalles Mt. Road.
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium -
* Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha - Fairly common at all elevations.
* Northwest Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea - Plants are small but numerous below, just beginning to bloom at middle elevations.
Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii - Only basal rosettes of leaves seen.
Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis - Basal rosettes of leaves seen.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Abundant bloom only at the summit.
Columbia River Gumweed: Grindelia nana var. integrifolia ? - Leaves only, and old, withered stems from last year seen.
False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides
Yellow Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltus
1. California Tortoiseshells (butterfly)
2. Blues (butterfly)
3. Western Green Hairstreak
4. Very large bumblebees (Bombus sp.)
5. Ravens
6. Red-tailed Hawk
7. Harriers (Marsh Hawk)
8. Golden Eagle
9. Horned Larks
10. Meadow Larks
11. American Robins
12. California Ground Squirrels