[Wildflower Bloom in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington: 2011]

Wildflowers Blooming Along the Cherry Orchard Trail

Accessed from the Trailhead East of the Lyle Tunnels from State Road #14

April 3, 2011

A views along the Columbia River from high along the Cherry Orchard Trail..........March 7, 2011.

A view west along the Columbia River from high along the Cherry Orchard Trail......March 7, 2011.

* indicates the plant is currently in bloom.

Plant list for the Cherry Orchard Trail

List is for plants seen from the trailhead on Highway 14 immediately east of the Lyle Tunnels uphill to the first large, open bench.

* Bigleaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - Flower buds are just breaking.

Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana

Wallace's Spikemoss: Selaginella wallacei

Cliff Fern: Woodsia (oregana or scopulina)

Gold-back Fern: Pentagramma triangularis

Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrhiza

Imbricate Sword Fern: Polystichum imbricans

Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa

Ookow: Dichelostemma congestum

* Bicolor Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - A few plants with flower buds opening.

* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii

Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum

Sheep Sorrel: Rumex acetosella

*Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata

* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media

* Little Western Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma

* Narrow Tansymustard: Descurainia incisa (ssp. filipes )

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

* Thick-leaved Thelypody: Thelypodium laciniatum v. laciniatum

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

Brittle-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa - In bud.

* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia

Evergreen Blackberry: Rubus laciniatus

Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus (Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius) - In bud.

Rabbitsfoot Clover: Trifolium arvense

Red Clover: Trifolium pratense

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Dove'sfoot Geranium: Geranium molle

Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum

Clarkia: Clarkia sp.

Burr Chervil: Anthriscus caucalis ?

* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum

Fernleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum (var. dissectum ?)

* Klickitat (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense

Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

* Dustymaidens: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii

* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

* Chickweed Monkeyflower: Erythranthe alsinoides

Cutleaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii var. richardsonii

* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella

Common Mullein: Verbascum thapsus

* Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine

Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sp.

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Columbia Goldenweed: Ericameria resinosa

Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integerrimus - In bud.

Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri

Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale


Paul Slichter