Crest of the Columbia Hills via the Dalles Mt. Rd.

Reached via SR 14 several miles east of Dallesport, WA

April 22, 2001

*1. Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica (A few flowers nearing the end of bloom.)

*2. Grass Widow: Sisyrinchium inflatum

3. Douglas' Buckwheat: Eriogonum douglasii var. tenue (bright red color forming on the flower buds!)

*4. Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia (Montia) perfoliata (The species with the spatulate basal leaves is reperesented here.)

*5. Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

*6. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

*7. Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera

*8. Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides (new photo)

*9. Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

*10. Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia (Nearly bloomed out.)

*11. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

*12. Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

*13. Slender-fruited Desert Parsley: Lomatium leptocarpum

*14. Biscuit Root: Lomatium macrocarpum (both white- and yellow- flowered forms).

*15. Salt & Pepper: Lomatium piperi / gormani (Only a few left in bloom.)

*16. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*17. Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii

*18. Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa (Just beginning bloom.) (new photo)

*19. Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species

*20. Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

*21. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

*22. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

*23. Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

*24. Arrow-leaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

*25. Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

*26. False Agoseris: Microseris troximoides