Weather: Temperature - low to mid 60s. Mostly sunny in the morning with high overcast increasing in the afternoon with light winds!
* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbifera - Inflorescence opening up and bulbils visible.
* Nevada Bluegrass: Poa juncifolia ssp. juncifolia - Beginning to bloom.
* Pale-anther Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Just beginning to bloom under shrubbery just below the north side of the summit ridge.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Fading out of bloom on the upper, north-facing slopes of the ridge.
Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sublineare - Some were sighted in bloom on Tuesday on ridgetops east of US 97 on the Washington side of the Gorge.
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum
Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum
* Lance-leaf Springbeauty: Claytonia lanceolata
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata (ssp. ?)
Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum
* The Dalles Mt. Buttercup: Ranunculus triternatus - A few still in bloom at the highest elevations and on the north-facing slopes.
* Purple Sicklepod Rockcress: Boechera atrorubens - Beginning to bloom.
* Douglas' Draba: Cusickiella douglasii
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera - Pods only.
* Dagger Pod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides - Beginning to bloom at the higher elevations.
* Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Still in bloom with lots of ripe seed pods.
Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (Now included as part of Lithophragma glabrum.) - In bloom at higher elevations.
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Small-flowerd Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum - Beginning to bloom.
* Brittle-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia - In bud.
Ocean Spray: Holodiscus discolor
* Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii
* Yakima Milk-vetch: Astragalus reventiformis - Beginning to bloom.
* Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus - Beginning to bloom along the Dalles Mt. Road near Dancing Rock.
* Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - Beginning to bloom at lower elevations along the Dalles Mt. Road.
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
* Canby's Desert Parsley: Lomatium canbyi - A few still in bloom at the highest elevations. Mostly going to seed.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium gormanii - A few plants in bloom at the highest elevations.
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense - Abundant bloom (very pungent fragrance) at lower to middle elevations.
* Gray-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum - White flowered form (with a few yellow-flowered forms), fairly common above 2000'.
* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - Small plants, but numerous bloom.
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum -
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - A few plants still in bloom on the upper, north-facing slopes where snow lay late into the spring.
* Nine Leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium tridentatum var. triternatum
* Watson's Desert Parsley: Lomatium watsonii
Gairdner's Yampah: Perideridia montana
* Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens - Beginning to bloom at high elevations.
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis - A few in bloom on middle elevation slopes.
* Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii - Beginning bloom at low and middle elevations.
Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa - In bud.
* Little Bells Polemonium: Polemonium micranthum
Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
* Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa - Small plants, not common yet.
* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Beginning to bloom.
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus
* Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. acuta - A few dozen plants are now beginning to bloom in the moister soils along the road, above the parking area.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Abundant at most elevations.
Hotrock Penstemon: Penstemon deustus var. variabilis
Gairdner's Penstemon: Penstemon gairdneri var. gairdneri
Stickystem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus var. chelanensis
* Mountain Kittentails: Veronica missurica ssp. stellata
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus - Beginning to leaf out under the oak trees.
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera - Beginning to bloom.
* Big Root, Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus - Fairly abundant along the Dalles Mt. Road.
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium
* Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha - Fairly common at all elevations.
* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza careyana (or Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea, I did not key them out.) - Plants are small but numerous below, just beginning to bloom at middle elevations.
Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii - Only basal rosettes of leaves seen.
Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii
Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis - Basal rosettes of leaves seen.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Abundant bloom only at the summit.
Columbia River Gumweed: Grindelia integrifolia ? - Leaves only, and old, withered stems from last year seen.
* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides - Beginning to bloom at high elevations.
Yellow Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltus - In bud under the oaks at lower elevations.
Very large bumblebees (Bombus sp.)
Domestic honeybees
Lady bugs
Ravens
Red-tailed Hawks
Harriers (Marsh Hawk)
Kestrels
Turkey Vultures
Dark-eyed Juncos
California Ground Squirrels
Coyote