* indicates a wildflower currently in bloom.
Complete Plant List for the Crawford Oaks/Eightmile Creek portion of the Columbia Hills State Park.
Earthstar Fungi: Geastrum saccatum ?
Scouring-rush Horsetail: Equisetum hyemale
Lace Lipfern: Myriopteris gracillima
Gold-back Fern: Pentagramma triangularis
Imbricate Sword Fern: Polystichum imbricans
Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum
Giant Wildrye: Leymus cinereus
Medusahead: Taeniatherum caput-medusae
Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - Terminal buds swelling.
Osage Orange: Maclura pomifera
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
Willow: Salix sp. - In bud.
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica
Panicle Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum
Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. intermontana
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
Shining Oregon Grape: Berberis aquifolium
* Little Western Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma
* Narrow Tansymustard: Descurainia incisa ssp. filipes (Descurainia longipedicellata?)
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera
* Fringepods: Thysanocarpus curvipes
California Poppy: Eschscholzia californica
Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Peak Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
Domestic Pear Trees: Pyrus communis
Evergreen Blackberry: Rubus laciniatus
Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus )- Basal leaves emerging from ground.
Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus var. leucophyllus - Remains from last year.
Hybrid Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus var. leucophyllus x Lupinus sericeus
Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus
Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - Leaves appearing.
Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Chervil: Anthriscus scandicina
* Gorman's Salt and Pepper: Lomatium gormanii
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - Cream-flowered form.
* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - Beginning to bloom.
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi
Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum
* Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii - Lots of leaves visible under the oaks.
Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus - Basal leaves present.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Beginning to bloom.
Common Monkey Flower: Erythranthe guttata
Annual Bedstraw, Cleavers: Galium aparine
Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha
* Carey's (Hybrid) Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea ?- A few plants with ray flowers visible on the flower heads.
Western Hawsbeard: Crepis occidentalis - Basal leaves visible.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule
Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa
Cushion Fleabane: Erigeron poliospermus
Mule Deer herd
California Ground Squirrels
Red-tailed Hawks
Harrier
Ravens
Magpies
Scrub Jays
Northern Flicker
Lewis' Woodpeckers
Western Meadowlarks
American Robins
Western Bluebirds
Horned Larks
White-crowned Sparrows
Dark-eyed Juncos
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Violet-green Swallows
Bewicks Wrens
Canyon Wren