Plant list for the Cherry Orchard Trail
List is for plants seen from the trailhead on Highway 14 immediately east of the Lyle Tunnels uphill to the the top of the bench overlooking the town of Lyle, but lower than the Lyle sign.
Weather: Sunny with temps in the 50s. Winds 20-30 mph which made standing or using binoculars difficult. We opted to return to the trailhead and head to Catherine Creek where there was more wind protection.
* Bigleaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - Beginning to bloom within the past 2 days
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
Wallace's Spikemoss: Selaginella wallacei
Gold-back Fern: Pentagramma triangularis
Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrhiza
Imbricate Sword Fern: Polystichum imbricans
Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa
Ookow: Dichelostemma congestum
Bicolor Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - A few plants in bud.
* Panicled Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii
Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum
Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum
Sheep Sorrel: Rumex acetosella
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii
* Little Western Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum - In bud.
* Fringepods: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Fading out of bloom.
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum
* Brittle-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus (Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius) - Many plants in bud.
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Dove'sfoot Geranium: Geranium molle
Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum - Leafing out.
Burr Chervil: Anthriscus caucalis
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Fading out of bloom.
* Fernleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum (var. dissectum ?)
* Klickitat (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida - In bud.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
* Ball-headed Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
* Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa
* Common Cryptanth: Cryptantha intermedia
* Great Hounds Tongue: Adelinia grandis
* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Beginning to bloom.
* Slender Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys tenellus
Narrowleaf Paintbrush: Castilleja attenutata
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
Cutleaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii var. richardsonii
* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella
* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum
* Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine
* Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus - Leafing out.
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.
* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana - It may be a hybrid (B. careyana x deltoidea), but is more similar in appearance to this species.
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.
Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri
* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale
Western Fence Lizard
Red-tailed Hawks
Cooper's Hawk
Turkey Vultures
Common Ravens
Scrub Jays