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