[Wildflower Bloom Reports for the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington: 2001]

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

Crest of the Columbia Hills via the Dalles Mountain Road

Reached via SR 14 several miles east of Dallesport, WA

April 22, 2001

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The photo at left shows a mid-elevation view of balsamroot and broad-leaf lupine blooming along the Dalles Mt. Rd......April 22, 2001. The photo at right shows Yakima milk-vetch (Astragalus reventiformis) from mid-elevation along the Dalles Mt. Rd......April 22, 2001.

* Indicates the wildflower is currently blooming.

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

* Grass Widow: Olsynium douglasii var. inflatum

Scbland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sublineare (bright red color forming on the flower buds!)

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

* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

* Scale Pod: Idahoa scapigera

* Daggerpod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides (new photo)

* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

* Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia (Nearly bloomed out.)

* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

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

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

* Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

* Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

* Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii

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

* Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species

* Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

* Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha

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

* Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

* False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

The higher slopes along the Dalles Mt. Rd....April 22, 2001.

The higher slopes along the Dalles Mt. Rd.....April 22, 2001.

Paul Slichter