[Wildflower Destinations in the Columbia River Gorge]
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* indicates a wildflower currently in bloom.
This hike is mostly on lands recently purchased by the Columbia Land Trust. Please contact them for permission to hike here and for the best directions to gain public access to this site. FYI - The Portland chapter NPSO will hold a hike here in early May if you are interested in learning more about this site.
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana
Cowpie Lichen: Diploschistes muscorum
Lichen: Umbilicaria sp,
Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum pilferum
Racomitrium Moss: Racomitrium lanuginosum or canescens ?
Lace Lipfern: Cheilanthes gracillima
Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrhiza
Imbricate Sword Fern: Polystichum imbricans
* Lemmon's Needlegrass: Achnatherum lemmonii ?
* Pacific Foxtail: Alopecurus saccatus
* Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum
* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa
* Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda var. secunda
Medusahead: Taeniatherum caput-medusae
* Common Camas: Camassia quamash (ssp. breviflora ?)
Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Pods forming.
* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii
Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii = Past bloom.
Curly Dock: Rumex crispus
* Miners Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. intermontana
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
* Water Chickweed: Montia fontana
* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis
* Sticky Chickweed: Cerastium glomeratum
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum var. nuttallianum
* Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis
* Shining Oregon Grape: Berberis aquifolium
* Little Western Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma - Fading.
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna - Fading out of bloom except in moist places
* Fringepods: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Fading out of bloom.
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum
* Peak Saxifrage: Saxifraga nidifica ssp. claytoniifolia - Fading out of bloom.
Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
* Serviceberry: Amelanchier sp. - Fading out of bloom.
* Suksdorf's Hawthorn: Crataegus suksdorfii - 20 stamens
* Almond: Prunus dulcis
Annual Burnet: Sanguisorba occidentalis
* Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus
* Howell's Milkvetch: Astragalus howellii
* Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus
* Bicolor Lupine: Lupinus bicolor
* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. thompsonianus
* Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus
* Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum
* Hairy Vetch: Vicia villosa
* Common Vetch: Vicia sativa
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Chervil: Anthriscus scandicina
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Fading out of bloom.
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - Yellow-flowered form.
* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Past bloom.
* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. anomalum
* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum
Gairdner's Yampah: Perideridia montana (P. gairdneri ssp. borealis)
Western Sanicle: Sanicula crassicaulis
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - Fading out of bloom.
Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora
* Babystars: Linanthus bicolor
* Midget Phlox: Phlox gracilis - Abundant in vernally moist swales.
Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
* Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata
Variedleaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla - In bud.
* Fireweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa
* Common Cryptanth: Cryptantha intermedia ?
* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale
* Yellow and Blue Scorpionweed: Myosotis discolor - Beginning to bloom.
* Little Combseed: Pectocarya pusilla
* Rusty Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys nothofulvus - Fading out of bloom.
* Matted Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys scouleri var. penicillatus
* Small Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys tenellus
Henbit: Lamium amplexicaule
* Narrowleaf Paintbrush: Castilleja attenuata
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Beginning to bloom.
* Few-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora
* Speedwell: Veronica sp.
* Naked Broomrape: Orobanche uniflora var. occidentalis
* Cleavers: Galium aparine
* Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus
* Long-spurred Plectritis: Plectritis ciliosa
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.
* Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla
* Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha
* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana ?
Rush Skeletonweed: Chondrilla juncea
Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.
Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. lanatum - In bud.
* Smooth Goldfields: Lasthenia glaberrima - Beginning to bloom.
* Small Tarweed: Madia exigua or Hemizonella minima ?- Beginning to bloom.
* Lemon Tarweed: Madia citriodora
* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides
* Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus
Salsify: Tragopogon dubius
Mule Deer (or hybrid with black-tailed deer ?)
California Ground Squirrel
Red-tailed Hawks
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Kestrel
Turkey Vulture
California Quail
Green-winged Teals
White-winged Doves - Heard. Pets?
Western Meadowlarks
Brewers Blackbirds
House Finches
Horned Larks
Yellow-rumped Warblers - Flycatching insects.
Barn Swallow
Violet-green Swallows
Anise Swallowtail
Blue