March 18, 2010

* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.

Complete Klickitat Trail: Upper Swale Canyon Plant List.

Common Horsetail: Equisetum hyemale

Western Polypody: Polypodium hesperium ?

Nebraska Sedge: Carex nebrascensis ?

Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides

Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegeneria spicata

Medusa-head: Taeniatherum caput-medusae

Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa - Small trees planted along the old railroad bed.

Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana

* Willow #1: Salix sp.

Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum ?

* Scilla-like Onion: Allium scilloides

Camas: Camassia sp.

* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora (ssp. ?)

* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii (var. douglasii)

Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum (var. proliferum?)

Curly Dock: Rumex crispus

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata (ssp. perfoliata?)

Water Chickweed: Montia fontana

* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis

* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum

Meadow Buttercup: Delphinium distichum

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum - In bud.

Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens

Wintercress: Barbarea sp.

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

* Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera

Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

Leiberg's Stonecrop: Sedum leibergii

* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

* Clayton's Saxifrage, Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga nidifica var. claytoniaefolia

Wax Currant: Ribes cereum var. cereum

Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii

Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia (var. ?)

Hawthorn: Crataegus sp.

Oceanspray: Holodiscus discolor

Sulphur Cinqueflower: Potentilla recta ?

Douglas' Spiraea: Spiraea douglasii (var. ?)

Milkvetch: Astragalus (hoodianus or reventiformis)

Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus (var. aridus ?)

Columbia Gorge Lupine?: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus?

Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum

Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Klamath Weed: Hypericum perforatum

Oregon Checkermallow: Sidalcea oregana (var. procera ?)

* Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi

* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum

Fernleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum (var. ?)

* Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi

* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - Yellow-flowered form.

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

Gairdner's Yampah: Perideridia gairdneri ssp. borealis ?

* Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii

Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa

Annual Polemonium: Polemonium micranthum

Ballhead Desert Parsley: Hydrophyllum capitatum (var. thompsonii?)

* Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata

Variedleaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla

Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus

Speedwell: Veronica sp.

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

Chicory: Cichorum intybus

Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis ?

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosum

Gumweed: Grindelia (columbiana?)

Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri (var. cynoglossoides?)

False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus (var. ?)

* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale

Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius

Animals Seen During This Hike:

Mule Deer (14 does)

California Ground Squirrels

Yellow-bellied Marmots

Meadow Vole

Bald Eagle

Rough-legged Hawk

Harriers

Northern Flickers

Magpies

Common Ravens

American Robins

Townsend's Solitaire

Spotted Towhees

Horned Larks

Starling

Red-winged Blackbirds

Western Meadowlarks

Killdeer

Mallards

Chukar

Canyon Wrens

Dark-eyed Juncos

Frogs croaking

Pacific Tree Frog

Large Bumblebee (yellow thorax, black abdomen)

Woolly-bear ? caterpillars (munching on Olsynium douglasii)