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