[Wildflower Bloom in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington: 2025]

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

North Breaks Road, Klickitat Wildlife Recreation Area (from the Glenwood-Goldendale Highway)

April 21, 2025

Mount Adams from the North Breaks, Klickitat Wildlife Area.....April 21, 2025.

A view of Mount Adams from the North Breaks, Klickitat State Wildlife Recreation Area.......April 21, 2025.

Today the weather was partly sunny with temperatures in the mid 50s with light to moderate winds.

* indicates the plant is currently in bloom.

Bigleaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum

California Hazelnut: Corylus cornuta var. californica

Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa

Douglas Fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii

* Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana

* Elk Sedge: Carex geyeri

* Dwarf Rush: Juncus hemiendytus var. hemiendytus or Inch-high Rush: Juncus uncialis

* Long-anther Woodrush: Luzula macrantha - Fading out of bloom.

* Lemmon's Needlebrass: Achnatherum lemmonii

One-spike Oatgrass: Danthonia unispicata

* Bulbous Blue Grass: Poa bulbosa

Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata

* Nevius' Onion: Allium nevii - Beginning to bloom.

Green-banded Mariposa Lily: Calochortus macrocarpus ssp. macrocarpus

* Common Camas: Camassia quamash var. quamash ? - Beginning to bloom.

* Pale-anthered Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Fading out of bloom.

* Bicolored Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - Beginning to bloom.

* Panicled Death Camas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum

* Meadow Death Camas: Toxicoscordion venenosum

Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Past bloom.

* Striped Coralroot Orchid: Corallorhiza striata - Numerous.

Rein Orchid: Platanthera (elegans or unalaschensis) - Basal leaves only.

Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum

Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum

Douglas' Knotweed: Polygonum douglasii

* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata

* Erubescent Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia rubra ssp. rubra

* Dwarf Montia: Montia dichotoma

* Linearleaf Montia: Montia linearis

* Bigleaf Sandwort: Moehringia macrophylla

* Hybrid Mouse-tail: Myosurus x alopecuroides

* Tiny Mouse-tail: Myosurus minimus

Plantain-leaved Buttercup: Ranunculus alismifolius var. alismifolius

* Water Buttercup: Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffusus

Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

* Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum - Beginning to bloom.

Scalepod: Idahoa scapigera

* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (Synonym: Lithophragma bulbifera) - Fading out of bloom.

* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (Non-bulbiferous form) - Fading out of bloom.

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum - Fading out of bloom.

* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia - Numerous.

Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii

* Cusick's Serviceberry: Amelanchier cusickii

Annual Burnet: Poteridium annuum

* Bittercherry: Prunus emarginata var. emarginata

Antelope Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata - Leafing out.

Nevada Deervetch: Acmispon decmbens (Formerly Acmispon nevadensis)

* Columbia River Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius - Beginning to bloom.

* Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Deer Brush: Ceanothus integerrimus

Annual Willow-herb: Epilobium brachycarpum

Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum

* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense

Biscuitroot: Lomatium macrocarpum - Yellow-flowered form.

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

Piper's Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi - Fruits forming.

* Suksdorf's Desert Parsley: Lomatium suksdorfii

* Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

Common Sweet Cicely: Osmorhiza berteroi

Mountain Yampah: Perideridia montana - Only leaves.

Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. columbiana

Large-flowered Collomia: Collomia grandiflora

* Bolander's Baby Stars: Leptosiphon bolanderi - Beginning to bloom.

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa

* Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilus - A few still in bloom in shaded, moist places.

* Ballhead Desert Parsley: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii

* Henderson's Common Cryptanth: Cryptantha intermedia var. hendersonii

Little Gruvelia: Gruvelia pusilla (formerly Pectocarya pusilla)

* Blue Scorpion-grass: Myosotis stricta

* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

* Valley-tassels: Castilleja attenuata - Beginning to bloom.

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

* Rattan's Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia rattanii

* Small-flowered Tonella: Tonella tenella

Common Mullein: Verbascum thapsus

* Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum

* Cleavers, Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine

* Blue Cups: Githopsis specularioides - Beginning to bloom.

Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera - Fading out of bloom.

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

* Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla

Spearleaf Agoseris: Agoseris retrorsa In bud.

Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha - Past bloom.

* Heartleaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia

Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii

Bull Thistle: Cirsium vulgare

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule - Fading out of bloom.

Scouler's Hawkweed: Hieracium scouleri

* Nodding Microseris: Microseris nutans ?

* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

* Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus - Beginning to bloom.


Paul Slichter