[2001 Wildflower Bloom Reports for the Columbia River Gorge]

Wildflowers in Bloom in the Columbia River Gorge

Slopes east of Avery Gravel Pit

WA State Highway #14, m.p. 91.6

May 5, 2001


* Indicates the wildflower is blooming.


A Native Plant Society of Oregon field trip.

*1. Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Agropyron spicatum

*2. Rip Gut: Bromus rigida

*3. Idaho Fescue: Festuca idahoensis

*4. Needle-and-thread: Stipa comata

*5. Pale Bastard Toad-flax: Commandra umbellata var. pallida

*6. Tansy Mustard: Descurainia richardsonii

*7. Pale Wallflower: Erysimum occidentale

*8. California Poppy: Eschscholzia californica

*9. Antelope Bitter Brush: Purshia tridentata

*10. The Dalles Milk-vetch: Astragalus sclerocarpus

*11. Whitish Lupine: Lupinus leucopsis

*12. Slender Evening-primrose: Oenothera contorta

*13. Pale Evening-primrose: Oenothera pallida

*14. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

*15. Slender-fruited Desert Parsley: Lomatium leptocarpum

*16. Blue Field Gilia: Gilia capitata

*17. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

*18. Thread-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia linearis

*19. Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

*20. Weak-stem Cryptantha: Cryptantha flaccida

*21. Sand-dune Penstemon: Penstemon accuminatus

*22. Indian-wheat: Plantago patagonica

*23. Big Root/ Wild cucumber: Marah oreganus

*24. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

*25. Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

*26. Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii Just commencing bloom.

*27. Thread-leaf Fleabane: Erigeron filifolius

*28. Oregon Sunshine/ Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

*29. Rabbit Leaf: Lagophpylla ramosissima

*30. Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius


Paul Slichter