Memaloose State Park and Surrounding Federal Lands

A Friends of the Columbia Gorge Field Trip

April 12, 2010

* Indicates the wildflower is blooming.

Complete list of Memaloose Loop Wildflowers

Wolfbane Lichen: Letharia vulpina

Morels: Morchella deliciosa

Membranous Dog Lichen: Peltigera (membranacea?) - Chocolate brown.

Fragile Fern: Cystopteris fragilis

Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrrhiza

Imbricate Sword Fern: Polystichum imbricans ssp. imbricans ?

Common Sword Fern: Polystichum munitum ?

Bracken Fern: Pteridium aquilinum

Oregon Cliff Fern: Woodsia oregana ssp. oregana ?

Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa

Douglas Fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii

* Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum

California Hazelnut: Corylus cornuta var. californica

Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana

Black Cottonwood: Populus trichocarpa

Quaking Aspen: Populus tremuloides

* Long-anthered Wood Rush: Luzula macrantha

* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa

Medusahead Wildrye: Taeniatherum caput-medusae

Common Cattail: Typha latifolia

Stinging Nettles: Urtica dioica (ssp. ?)

Green-banded Mariposa Lily: Calochortus macrocarpus var. macrocarpus - Basal leaves only.

Common Camas: Camassia quamash (ssp. quamash ?)

Ookow, Ball-head Cluster Lily: Dichelostemma congestum - In bud.

* Pale-anthered Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum

* Chocolate Lily: Fritillaria lanceolata

* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Mostly out of bloom.

False Solomon Seal: Maianthemum racemosum - In bud.

Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii - In bud.

* Panicled Death-camas: Zigadenus paniculatus

* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii (old var. douglasii) - Past bloom.

* Fairy Slipper: Calypso bulbosa -

Long-spurred Rein Orchid: Piperia elegans - (basal leaves only, so this could also be Piperia unalascensis)

Common Bastard Toad-flax: Commandra umbellata var. californica - In bud.

Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum

Curly Dock: Rumex crispus

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia parviflora ssp. parviflora

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata

* Red Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra

* Water Chickweed: Montia fontana

* Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis

* Chickweed: Stellaria media

* Shining Chickweed: Stellaria nitens

* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum

* Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis

* Shining Oregon Grape: Berberis aquifolium

* Mouse-ear Cress: Arabidopsis thaliana

Bitter Wintercress: Barbarea vulgaris ? - Domestic wintercress growing in disturbed fields.

* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii var. nuttallii

* Little Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum - In bud.

* Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes

Broad-leaf Stonecrop: Sedum spathulifolium

* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia var. integrifolia

* Merten's Saxifrage: Saxifraga mertensiana

* Peak Saxifrage: Saxifraga nidifica var. claytoniifolia

* Western Saxifrage: Saxifraga occidentalis or Rusty-haired Saxifrage: Saxifraga rufidula or Gorman's Saxifrage: Saxifraga gormanii

* Violet Suksdorfia: Suksdorfia violacea

* Fringe Cup: Tellima grandiflora

Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii -

* Cusick's Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia var. cusickii

Ocean Spray: Holodiscus discolor

Sticky Cinquefoil: Potentilla glandulosa (var. ?)

Choke Cherry: Prunus virginiana var. melanocarpa - Racemes in bud.

Himalayan Blackberry: Rubus armeniacus

Blackcap: Rubus leucodermis

Trailing Blackberry: Rubus ursinus

Western Spiraea, Hardhack: Spiraea douglasii var. menziesii

Few-flowered Pea: Lathyrus pauciflorus var. pauciflorus

* Common Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. thompsonianus

* Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Dovefoot Geranium: Geranium molle

Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversiloba

Deer Brush: Ceanothus integerrimus

Fireweed: Chamerion angustifolium

Chervil: Anthriscus scandicina

* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Fading out of bloom.

* Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow-flowered form)

* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

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

Common Sweet Cicely: Osmorhiza berteroi

Western Snake Root: Sanicula crassicaulis

* Sierra Snake Root: Sanicula graveolens

* Manzanita: Arctostaphylos columbiana - Planting in the rest area.

Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens - Past bloom.

* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum

Broad-leaf Shooting Star: Trientalis latifolia

Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. columbiana - In bud.

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

* Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii

Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata

Varied-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla

* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

Scouler's Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys scouleri

* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

* Henbit: Lamium amplexicaule

* Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. hispida

* Large-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia grandiflora

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

* Few-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora

Common Monkey Flower: Mimulus guttatus

* Dwarf Owl-clover: Orthocarpus pusillus

Cutleaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii var. richardsonii

* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella

* Dwarf Owl-clover: Triphysaria pusilla (Orthocarpus pusillus)

* Naked Broomrape: Orobanche uniflora var. minuta

* Bedstraw: Galium aparine var. echinospermum

Orange Honeysuckle: Lonicera ciliosa

Blue Elderberry: Sambucus mexicana

Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Corn Salad: Valerianella locusta

* Big Root: Marah oreganus

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Heartleaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia

* Northwestern Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza deltoidea (or B. careyana?)

Hairy Goldaster: Chrysopsis villosa

Canada Thistle: Cirsium arvense ?

Columbia Goldenweed: Columbiadora hallii

Gray Hawsbeard: Crepis intermedia ?

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Threadleaf Fleabane: Erigeron filifolius

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

* False Agoseris, Prairie Dandelion: Nothocalais troximoides

* Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale