Today the morning weather was in the upper 40s with light winds and mostly cloudy skies. The afternoon was mostly sunny with temps to the low 60s with light winds.
Note: Turkey hunting season this week with the youth hunt, so please take care when hiking or riding horseback in this area. If you are in a group, please talk so that hunters can hear you, and wear bright clothing!
Comprehensive Klickitat State Wildlife Area Plant List
Powder-headed Tube Lichen: Hypogymnia tubulosa ? - on Oregon white oak
Brown-eyed Wolf Lichen: Letharia columbiana
Wolf Lichen: Letharia vulpina
Brown-eyed Sunshine Lichen: Vulpicida canadensis- on ponderosa pine and Oregon white oak
Juniper Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum pilferum
Ponderosa Pine: Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa
Douglas Fir: Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii
Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
Elk Sedge: Carex geyeri - Leaves.
Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum - Last year's spent inflorescences.
Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides - Leaves.
Prairie Junegrass: Koeleria macrantha
Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa
Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata
* Fragile Onion: Allium scilloides
* Pale-anther Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum - Beginning to bloom.
* Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica
Panicle Death Camas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
* Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii
Rein Orchid: Platanthera (elegans or unalaschensis) - Basal leaves only.
* Lineleaf Montia: Montia linearis - Beginning to bloom.
Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis - Leaves.
* Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna - Numerous.
* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum (Synonym: Lithophragma bulbifera) - Bulblet form.
* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum - Non-bulblet form.
* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia - Leaves.
Hood River Milkvetch: Astragalus hoodianus - Leaves visible.
Common Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius ? - Leaves.
Deerbrush: Ceanothus integerrimus
Mahala Mat: Ceanothus prostratus
* Sagebrush Violet: Viola trinervata
Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
* Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Large-fruit Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum - Beginning to bloom. Yellow-flowered form.
* Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi
Pinedrops: Pterospora andromedaea - Last year's stalks.
* Desert Shooting Stars: Dodecatheon conjugens - Beginning to bloom.
Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon/ Primula poeticum - Leaves.
* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis - Beginning to bloom.
Hesperochiron: Hesperochiron pumilus - Only leaves.
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora - Beginning to bloom
* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule
False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides - Basal leaves.
Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus