Comprehensive Catherine Creek Plant List
Weather: Heavy cloud cover with intermittent rain showers and light winds to 5 mph. Temps upper 40s in the morning rising to about 50 in the afternoon.
Antlered Perfume: Evernia prunastri
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
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum - Basal leaves abundant on rock outcrops with shallow soils.
Common Camas: Camassia quamash - In bud. It should begin bloom within a week.
* 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 var. perfoliata - Beginning to bloom.
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
* Oregon Fairy Poppy: Meconella oregana
* Smooth Praire Star: Lithophragma glabrum
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes fragosa
* Rustyhair Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula
Columbia Gorge Lupine: 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: Rhus diversilobum - Reddish leaves beginning to unfurl.
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum - Mid bloom.
* Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum (yellow-flowered form)
Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum
* Piper's Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Fading out of bloom below the powerlines.
Gairdner's Yampah: Perideridia montana (Perideridia gairdneri) - Leaves only.
* Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon/Primula poeticum - A few plants beginning to bloom.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii
* Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata
* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus - Beginning to bloom.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
* Few-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia sparsiflora var. bruceae - Beginning to bloom.
* Chickweed Monkey Flower: Erythranthe alsinoides - Beginning to bloom.
Barrett's Penstemon: Penstemon barrettiae
Bedstraw, Cleavers: Galium aparine
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule
Northern Flickers
Lewis' Woodpeckers
Stellers Jays
Scrub Jays
Western Meadowlarks
American Robins
Western Bluebirds
Dark-eyed Juncos