Today the weather was in the low to upper 50s with sunny skys and very light winds.
* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.
Comprehensive Klickitat Trail: Upper Swale Canyon Plant List.
Common Horsetail: Equisetum hyemale
Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Nebraska Sedge: Carex nebrascensis ?
Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides
Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegeneria spicata
Medusa-head: Taeniatherum caput-medusae
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa - Small trees planted along the old railroad bed.
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
* Arroyo Willow: Salix lasiolepis
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum
* Scilla-like Onion: Allium scilloides
Common Camas: Camassia quamash (ssp. breviflora ?)
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica
Bicolor Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii
* 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 - In bud.
Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens
AmericanWintercress: Barbarea orthoceras
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera
Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides
Leiberg's Stonecrop: Sedum leibergii
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (now Lithophragma glabrum)
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Clayton's Saxifrage, Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
Wax Currant: Ribes cereum var. cereum
Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
Cusick's Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia var. cusickii
Douglas' Hawthorn: Crataegus douglasii
Oceanspray: Holodiscus discolor
Sulphur Cinqueflower: Potentilla recta
Douglas' Spiraea: Spiraea douglasii (var. ?)
Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus
Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus (var. aridus ?)
Columbia Gorge Lupine?: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus (Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius)
Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum
Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Klamath Weed: Hypericum perforatum
Oregon Checkermallow: Sidalcea oregana var. oregana
* Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum
Fernleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum (var. ?)
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* 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 montana
* 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: Erythranthe guttata
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 (old var. cynoglossoides)
False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides
Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus
* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale
Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius
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)