Plant list for the Cherry Orchard Trail
The list below was compiled for plants seen from the trailhead on Highway 14 immediately east of the Lyle Tunnels uphill along the Cherry Orchard Trail to the top of the bluffs and then eastward along the trail to the Cherry Orchard. Additional plants were noted along the old DNR road that descends from the power lines south to the Cherry Orchard.
* 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
* Spike-rush: Eleocharis sp.
* Long-anthered Woodrush: Luzula macrantha
* Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum
* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa
* Leiberg's Bluegrass: Poa leibergii
* Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda
Ookow: Dichelostemma congestum
Pale-anthered Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Past bloom.
* Chocolate Lily: Fritillaria affinis
* Bicolor Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii
* Panicle Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii
Rein Orchid: Platanthera sp.
Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum - Several plants in bud.
Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum
Sheep Sorrel: Rumex acetosella
Curly Dock: Rumex crispus
Bastard Toadflax: Comandra umbellata var. californica - In bud.
* Streambank Springbeauty: Claytonia parviflora
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
* Red Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra
* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Bigleaf Sandwort: Moehringia macrophylla
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum
* Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis
* Shining Oregon Grape: Berberis aquifolium
* Creeping Oregon Grape: Berberis repens ?
California Poppy: Eschscholzia californica
* Mouse-ear Cress: Arabidopsis thaliana
* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii
* Little Western Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma
* Narrow Tansymustard: Descurainia incisa (ssp. filipes)
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum
* Field Pepperweed: Lepidium campestre ?
* Shepherd's Cress: Teesdalia nudicaulis
* Thick-leaved Thelypody: Thelypodium laciniatum v. laciniatum
* Fringepods: Thysanocarpos curvipes
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (now included with Lithophragma glabrum)
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum
* Brittle-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia
* Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia (var. ?)
Broadpetal Strawberry: Fragaria virginiana var. platypetala
Antelope Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata - In bud.
Evergreen Blackberry: Rubus laciniatus
Blackcap Raspberry: Rubus leucodermis
* Woolly-pod Milkvetch: Astragalus purshii
* Bicolor Lupine: Lupinus bicolor
Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus
* Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus
Whitish Lupine: Lupinus sulphureus var. subsaccatus
Alfalfa: Medicago sativus
Rabbitsfoot Clover: Trifolium arvense
Red Clover: Trifolium pratense
* Common Vetch: Vicia sativa
* Baker's Violet: Viola bakeri (Viola nuttallii var. bakeri - Backs of petals yellow.)
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
* Dove'sfoot Geranium: Geranium molle
Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum - leafing out.
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
* Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum
Common Sweet-cicely: Osmorhiza berteroi
Pacific Snakeroot: Sanicula crassicaulis
* Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum
Spreading Dogbane: Apocynum androsaemifolum
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida - In bud. Add to main list
Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora or Linear-leaved Collomia: Collomia linearis
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
* Dustymaidens: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
Variedleaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla - In bud.
* Narrowleaf Phacelia: Phacelia linearis
* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa
* Weakstem Cryptantha: Cryptantha flaccida
* Common Cryptanth: Cryptantha intermedia
* Great Hound's Tongue: Adelinia grandis
* Gromwell: Lithospermum arvense
* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale
* Small-flowered Scorpionweed: Myosotis micrantha
Scouler's Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys scouleri
Slender Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys tenellus
* Attenuate Paintbrush: Castilleja attenuata
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
* Rattan's Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia rattanii
* Chickweed Monkeyflower: Erythranthe alsinoides
Cutleaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii var. richardsonii
* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella
Dwarf Owlclover: Triphysaria pusilla ? - In bud.
Moth Mullein: Verbascum blatteria
Common Mullein: Verbascum thapsus
* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum
English Plantain: Plantago lanceolata
* Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine
* Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus
Orange Honeysuckle: Lonicera ciliosa
* Long-spurred Plectritis: Plectritis ciliosa
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.
* Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla
Field Pussytoes: Antennaria howellii ssp. howellii - In bud.
* Northwest Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea, or Balsamorhiza careyana
Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.
Columbia Goldenweed: Ericameria resinosa
* Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integerrimus - In bud, although one plant is beginning to bloom on the rock wall above SR 14 just west of the trailhead.
Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri
Tarweed: Madia sp. - In bud.
* Pineapple Weed: Matricaria matricarioides
* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides
* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale
* Lindley's Annual Microseris: Uropappus lindleyi
California Ground Squirrels
Western Gray Squirrel
Turkey Vultures
Ravens
Steller's Jays
American Robins
Western Bluebirds
Black-capped Chickadees
Dark-eyed Juncos
Chipping Sparrows
Lesser Goldfinches
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Violet-green Swallows
Canyon Wrens
Propertius Duskywings
Large Bombus Bumblebees
Water Striders
Millipede (Haraphes sp. ?)
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