From Sevenmile Road, this route climbs along a narrow strip of USFS lands to the ridgeline of Sevenmile Hill. Know your route before going to avoid trespassing on neighboring private lands. Pull completely off Sevenmile Road as vehicles travel fairly fast down this road. Watch for rattlesnakes along the route up the hill from spring through fall.
Weather: Alternating between sunny and partly (hazy) sunny Temperatures to the upper 60s or low 70s. Winds light or often still. One of the warmest days so far this spring!
Cowpie Lichen: Diploschistes muscorum ?
Antlered Perfume: Evernia prunastri
* Elk Sedge: Carex geyeri - Beginning to bloom under the oaks atop the ridge.
Idaho Fescue: Festuca idahoensis - Grass clumps were hit hard by the fire.
* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa - Inflorescences with bulbils forming.
* Leiberg's Bluegrass: Poa leibergii - Beginning to bloom.
* Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda var. secunda
Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata
Medusahead: Taenitherum caput-medusae - Last year's heads.
* Bigleaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa - Only at the ridgetop.
Black Cottonwood: Populus trichocarpa - Beginning to leaf out.
Douglas Fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii - Only at the ridgetop.
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum - In bud.
Sagebrush Mariposa: Calochortus macrocarpus var. macrocarpus - Basal leaves.
Ball-headed Cluster Lily: Dichelostemma congestum - Leaves emerging from the ground. A few plants with flower buds.
* Pale-anther Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Blooming under the oaks atop the ridge.
Chocolate Lily: Fritillaria affinis - In bud.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica - Most plants are past bloom and beginning to form large seed pods
* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - A few plants in bloom.
Hyacinth Cluster Lily: Triteleia hyacinthina - Basal leaves.
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Fading out of bloom at the top of the ridge.
Rein Orchid: Piperia sp. - Basal leaves only.
Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum
* Pale Springbeauty: Claytonia exigua ssp. exigua
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. intermontana
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata
Red Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia rubra ssp. depressa ?
* Red Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra
* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis
* Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum - Fading out of bloom. Very numerous weed on heavily scorched soils
* Chickweed: Stellaria media
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum
* Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis
* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamiine nuttallii - Fading out of bloom under oaks at the ridgetop.
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum - In bud.
* Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (formerly Lithophragma bulbifera) - Fading out of bloom.
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (non-bulblet foerm) - Fading out of bloom.
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum- Peak bloom.
* Fleshy-leaved Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
* Serviceberry: Amelanchier sp.
* Hood River Milk-vetch: Astragalus hoodianus - Beginning to bloom.
* Howell's Milk-vetch: Astragalus howellii - Beginning to bloom.
* Few-flowered Pea: Lathyrus pauciflorus var. pauciflorus - Beginning to bloom.
* Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus - Beginning to bloom.
* Bicolor Lupine: Lupinus bicolor - Beginning to bloom.
* Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus) - Beginning to bloom.
* Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus - Beginning to bloom.
* Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum - Leafing out.
Burr Chervil: Anthriscus caucalis - In bud.
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Fading out of bloom.
* Chocolate Tips, Fern-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum var. dissectum
* Largeseed Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow-flowered form)
* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Going to seed.
* Nine Leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium tridentatum var. triternatum - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Yampah: Perideridia gairdneri (Perideridia montana) - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida - Leaves emerging from the ground.
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum - Blooming on moist, grassy slopes atop the ridge.
Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora - Leafy stems forming.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
* Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii - Beginning to bloom.
* Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata
Silverleaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata var. hastata - In bud.
* Fiddleneck: Amsinckia menziesii (former var. menziesii ?)
* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Leaves coming up.
* Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass: Myosotis discolor
Little Pectocarya: Gruvelia pusilla ? - In bud.
* Rusty Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys nothofulvus - Peak bloom.
Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys (one of the old scouleri varieties) - Bottom of small stock pond.
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus - Peak bloom.
* Henbit: Lamium amplexicaule
* Narrowleaf Paintbrush: Castilleja attenuata - Beginning to bloom.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Very numerous, covering burned ground in places. Many white-flowered forms too!
Sticky-stem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus var. chelanensis - Basal leaves.
Dwarf Owlclover: Triphysaria pusilla - In bud.
* Corn Speedwell: Veronica arvensis - Beginning to bloom.
* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum
* Common Bedstraw: Galium aparine
* Manroot: Marah oreganus
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.
* Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla
Heartleaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia - Lower leaves are up.
* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza careyana (or a hybrid with B. deltoidea ?)
Bachelor's Buttons: Centaurea cyanus - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Diffuse Knapweed: Centaurea diffusa - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadoria hallii
Smooth Hawksbeard: Crepis capillaris - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis- Basal rosettes of leaves seen.
Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. lanatum - Leaves only.
* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides - Beginning to bloom.
* Yellow Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltus - Beginning to bloom.
* Common Dandelion: Taraxacum officinale
Salsify: Tragopogon dubius - Leaves emerging from the ground.
Elk - Tracks
Red-tailed Hawks
Gray Partridge
Common Ravens
Hairy Woodpecker
Western Meadowlarks
Spotted Towhees
American Robins
Red Crossbills
Golden-crowned Sparrows
Pacific Treefrogs
Anise Swallowtail
Hoover Flies