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Wildflower Bloom in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington

Crawford Oaks and Eightmile Creek drainage

Columbia Hills State Park from State Highway 14 (Crawford Oaks Trailhead) ad the Vista Loop Trail

April 6, 2025

Bigleaf maples leafing out and blooming along SR14 at the Crawford Oaks Trailhead, Columbia Hills Historical State Park........April 9, 2018.

Bigleaf maples leafing out and blooming along SR14 at the Crawford Oaks Trailhead, Columbia Hills Historical State Park........April 9, 2018.

-Weather: Partly cloudy in the morning becoming mostly cloudy with sprinkles around lunch time. Temperatures in the mid 40s to 50s. Calm to light winds.


* indicates a wildflower currently in bloom.

Complete Plant List for the Crawford Oaks/Eightmile Creek portion of the Columbia Hills State Park.

Wallace's Spike Moss: Selaginella wallacei

Gold-back Fern: Pentagramma triangularis

Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum

* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa

* Leiberg's Bluegrass: Poa leibergii

* Nevada Bluegrass: Poa secunda var. juncifolia

* Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda var. secunda

Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata

Medusahead: Taeniatherum caput-medusae

* Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum - Beginning to bloom.

Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana

Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum - Numerous leaves.

* Panicle Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum - Beginning to bloom.

Bicolored Clusterlily: Triteleia grandiflora ssp. howellii - In bud.

* Douglas' Grass Widows: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii - Fading out of bloom.

Northern Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum - In bud. Yellow-flowered version.

Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum

* Shining Oregon Grape: Berberis aquifolium

* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna - Fading out of bloom.

Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera - Seed pods.

* Fringepods: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Fading out of bloom.

Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii - Leafing out.

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Peak Saxifrage: Saxifraga nidifica

* Bittercherry: Prunus emarginata var. emarginata - Beginning to bloom.

Chokecherry: Prunus virginiana var. melanocarpa - Leafing out.

Domestic Pear Trees: Pyrus communis

* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (Formerly var. thompsonianus) - Beginning to bloom.

Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus var. leucophyllus - Leaves are up.

* Bighead Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum - Beginning to bloom.

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. brevifolium

* Butterfly-loving Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum

* Midget Phlox: Phlox gracilis

* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa - Beginning to bloom.

* Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum v. thompsonii - Fading out of bloom.

* Fireweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia retrorsa

* Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale - Beginning to bloom.

Henbit: Lamium amplexicaule

* Narrowleaf Owlclover: Castilleja attenuata - Beginning to bloom.

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

* Chickweed Monkeyflower: Erythranthe alsinoides

Annual Bedstraw, Cleavers: Galium aparine

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

* Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.

* Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla var. heterophylla

* Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana (or hybrid?)

Rush Skeletonweed: Chondrilla juncea

Gray Hawksbeard: Crepis intermedia - Basal leaves visible.

Western Hawsbeard: Crepis occidentalis - Basal leaves visible.

Gray Rabbitbrush: Ericameria nauseosa v ar.speciosa

* Cushion Fleabane: Erigeron poliospermus var. poliospermus - Beginning to bloom.

* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

* Silver Puffs: Uropappus lindleyi - In bloom around the trailhead.

* Common Dandylion: Taraxacum officinale


Paul Slichter