[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington

Columbia Hills Natural Area Preserve

May 9, 1998

A Native Plant Society of Oregon Field Trip.


Bicolored Harvest Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - A few still in bloom.

Western Solomon Plume: Maianthemum racemosum ssp. amplexicaule

Striped Coral Root: Corallorhiza striata

Heart-leaf Buckwheat (both the yellow and white forms): Eriogonum compositum var. compositum - In full, resplendant bloom!

Scabland Wild Buckwheat: Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sublineare - In full bloom.

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

Sickle-pod Rock Cress: Boechera atrorubens

Douglas' Draba: Cusickiella douglasii - Going out of bloom.

Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum

Dagger Pod: Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides - Going out of bloom

Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes - Not in bloom, but lots of ripe seed pods.

Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

Hood River Milk-vetch: Astragalus hoodianus

Yakima Milk-vetch: Astragalus reventiformis

Few-flowered Pea: Lathyrus pauciflorus var pauciflorus

Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus) - Abundant.

Spurred Lupine: Lupinus arbustus

Big-head Clover: Trifolium macrocephalum

Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Yellow Prairie Violet: Viola nuttallii (var. bakeri ?)

Fern-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum (var. ?)

Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum - Very few in bloom.

Gray-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum - White flowered form. Going out of bloom.

Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule - Numerous bloom.

Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

Columbia Frasera: Frasera albicaulis var. nitida

Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa- A few in bloom.

Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii

Varied-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla

Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species

Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispidus

Sticky-stem Penstemon: Penstemon glandulosus (var. ?)

Clustered Broomrape: Aphyllon franciscanum

Naked Broomrape: Aphyllon purpureum

White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Annual Agoseris: Agoseris heterophylla

Heart-leaf Arnica: Arnica cordifolia

Northwest (hybrid?) Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza careyana x deltoidea -Medium bloom.

Gray Hawksbeard: Crepis intermedia

Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis

Woolly Sunflower: Eriophyllum lanatum var. integrifolium

False Agoseris: Nothocalais troximoides

Yellow Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltus

Yellow Salsify: Tragopogon dubius


Paul Slichter