April 17, 2010

* indicates the wildflower is currently in bloom.

Complete Klickitat Trail: Upper Swale Canyon Plant List.

Mexican Water-fern: Azolla mexicana ?

Duckweed: Lemna minor

Western Polypody: Polypodium hesperium ?

Medusa-head: Taeniatherum caput-medusae

Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa

Oregon White Oak: Quercus 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 var. nuttallianum

* Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens

Wintercress: Barbarea sp.

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

* Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides

* Dutchman's Breeches: Dicentra cucullaria

Leiberg's Stonecrop: Sedum leibergii

* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

* 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 ?)

Hawthorn: Crataegus sp.

Oceanspray: Holodiscus discolor

Milkvetch: Astragalus (hoodianus or reventiformis)

Prairie Lupine: Lupinus lepidus (var. aridus ?)

* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus - 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. ?)

* Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

* 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

* Few-flowered blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora ?

* Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus

Sticky-stem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus var. chelanensis

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii

Chicory: Cichorum intybus

Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.

Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa (ssp. speciosa ?)

Gumweed: Grindelia (columbiana?)

* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus (var. ?)

* 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