Comprehensive Catherine Creek Plant List
Weather: Sunny with light winds to 5 mph. Temps upper 40s in the morning rising to mid 50s in the afternoon.
Antlered Perfume: Evernia prunastri
Wolf Lichen: Letharia vulpina
Glossy Red Bryum Moss: Bryum miniatum
Juniper Haircap Moss: Polytrichum juniperinum
Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum pilferum
Elongate Racomitrium Moss: Racomitrium elongatum ?
Wallace's Spikemoss: Selaginella wallacei
Fragile Fern: Cystopteris fragilis
Licorice Fern: Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
* Long-anthered Woodrush: Luzula macranta - Beginning to bloom.
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum - Basal leaves abundant on rock outcrops with shallow soils.
Ball-head Cluster Lily: Dichelostemma congestum - Basal leaves only.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - A good bloom at low elevation.
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Fading out of bloom.
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata - In bud.
Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva - A few plants with small flower buds.
* Water Chickweed: Montia fontana var. tenerrima
* Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis - Beginning to bloom.
* Chickweed: Stellaria media
Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum - In bud.
* Spring Whitlow Grass: Draba verna
* Smooth Praire Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
* Rusty-hair Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula
* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius x sericeus (Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius) - Several plants with racemes with flower buds along old Highway 8 adjacent to Rowland Lake and along SR 14 at the east end of Rowland Lake. Perhaps they will bloom by early next week?
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Poison Oak: Toxicoscordion diversilobum - A few plants with signs they are about to leaf out.
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow-flowered form)
Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
* Butterfly-loving Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - A few plants beginning to bloom.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
Few-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora - In bud.
* Chickweed Monkey Flower: Erythranthe alsinoides - Beginning to bloom.
Barrett's Penstemon: Penstemon barrettiae
* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum - Beginning to bloom.
Bedstraw, Cleavers: Galium aparine
Big Root: Marah oreganus
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium
Spearleaf Agoseris: Agoseris retrorsa
Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana (or Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea)
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule
Red-tailed Hawks
Northern Flickers
Lewis' Woodpeckers
Stellers Jays
Scrub Jays
Western Meadowlarks
American Robins
Western Bluebirds
Dark-eyed Juncos