[Wildflower Bloom Reports for the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington: 2016]

Wildflowers in Bloom in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington

Memaloose State Park and Surrounding Federal Lands

April 24, 2016

Common camas (Camassia quamash) blooming at the base of Lone Pine Hill along the eastern portion of the Memaloose Loop Trail.........April 24, 2016.

Common camas (Camassia quamash) blooming at the base of Lone Pine Hill along the eastern portion of the Memaloose Loop Trail.........April 24, 2016.

* Indicates the wildflower is blooming.

Comprehensive list of Memaloose Loop Wildflowers

Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa

* Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana

* Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum

* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa

Medusahead Wildrye: Taeniatherum caput-medusae

Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum - In bud.

* Common Camas: Camassia quamash ssp. quamash

* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii

* Meadow Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion venenosum

Heart-leaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum - In bud.

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata

* Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis - Fading out of bloom.

Sticky Chickweed: Cerastium glomeratum

* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum - Fading out of bloom.

* Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Common Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius

* Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus

Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - Past bloom.

* Hairy Vetch: Vicia hirsuta

* Common Vetch: Vicia sativa

* Hairy Vetch: Vicia villosa

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

* Dovefoot Geranium: Geranium molle

Poison Oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum

* Chervil: Anthriscus caucalis

* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow-flowered form) - Fading out of bloom.

* Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Western Snake Root: Sanicula crassicaulis

* Sierra Snake Root: Sanicula graveolens

Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon/Primula poeticum - Past bloom.

Spreading Dogbane: Apocynum androsaemifolium (var. ?)

* Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida (formerly var. columbiana) - Beginning to boom.

* Babystars: Leptosiphon bicolor

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis - Fading out of bloom.

* Rigid Fiddleneck: Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia

Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Past bloom.

* Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass: Myosotis discolor

* Scouler's Popcornflower: Plagiobothrys scouleri var. scouleri ?

* Narrow-leaf Owlclover: Castilleja attenuata

* Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida var. hispida

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Fading out of bloom.

* Few-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora var. bruceae - Fading out of bloom.

* Common Monkey Flower: Erythranthe guttata

* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella

* Dwarf Owl-clover: Triphysaria pusilla

* Purslane Speedwell: Veronica peregrina var. xalpensis

* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum

* Bedstraw: Galium aparine

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.

* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana

Bull Thistle: Cirsium vulgare

* Oregon Sunshine: Eriophyllum lanatum var. leucophyllum - Beginning to bloom.

Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri

* Lemon-scented Tarweed: Madia citriodora

* False Agoseris, Prairie Dandelion: Nothocalais troximoides

Columbia Goldenweed: Pyrrocoma carthamoides var. carthamoides

* Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale


Paul Slichter