* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.
Comprehensive Klickitat Trail: Upper Swale Canyon Plant List.
Mexican Water-fern: Azolla mexicana ?
Duckweed: Lemna minor
Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Medusa-head: Taeniatherum caput-medusae
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii)- Fading out of bloom.
Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum
Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum (var. proliferum?)
Curly Dock: Rumex crispus
* Pale Montia: Claytonia exigua ssp. exigua
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum
* Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens
American Wintercress: Barbarea orthoceras
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides
* Dutchman's Breeches: Dicentra cucullaria
Leiberg's Stonecrop: Sedum leibergii
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (now L. glabrum)
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia var. integrifolia
* Merten's Saxifrage: Saxifraga mertensiana
* Golden Currant: Ribes aureum
* Straggly Currant: Ribes divaricatum
Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
* Cusick's Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia (var. cusickii ?)
Douglas' Hawthorn: Crataegus douglasii
Oceanspray: Holodiscus discolor
Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus
Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus var. aridus
* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus (Lupinus latifolius v. latifolius) - Blooming along the lower sections of Swale Canyon.
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Klamath Weed: Hypericum perforatum
Mountain Hollyhock: Iliamna rivularis
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum
* Fernleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum var. dissecutm
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - Yellow-flowered form.
* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa
* Ballhead Desert Parsley: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
Variedleaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
* Common Monkeyflower: Erythranthe guttata
Sticky-stem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus var. chelanensis
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium
Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii
Chicory: Cichorum intybus
Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.
Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa
Gumweed: Grindelia (columbiana?)
* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides
Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltaus
* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale
Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius
Animals Seen During This Hike:
California Ground Squirrels
Yellow-bellied Marmots
Turkey Vulture
Harriers
Common Ravens
Steller's Jays
American Robins
Spotted Towhees
Red-winged Blackbirds
Western Meadowlarks
Mallards
Cinnamon Teals
Dark-eyed Juncos
Barn Swallows
Frogs croaking
Large Bumblebee (yellow thorax, black abdomen)
Woolly-bear ? caterpillars (munching on Olsynium douglasii)
Western Swallowtail
Mourning Cloaks
Propertius Duskywings