[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge

March 27, 1998

 


The photo at right shows the flowers of hairy locoweed (Astragalus inflexus).
Dunes south of Washington State Road #14 at about MP 115.5

1. Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata (formerly Montia perfoliata)

2. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii -Abundant.

3. Pale Wallflower: Erysimum occidentale

4. The Dalles Milk-vetch: Astragalus sclerocarpus

5. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

6. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

7. Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species

8. Rosy Plectritis: Plectritus congesta

9. Northwest Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza deltoidea -Medium bloom.


Rock Creek Road just North of Intersection with SR 14

1. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

2. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

3. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

4. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

5. Weak-stemmed Cryptantha: Cryptantha flaccida ?

6. Rosy Plectritis: Plectritus congesta

7. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud, but not yet blooming.


Along Rock Creek Road near Park with Boat Launch to Goldendale-Bickleton Hwy

Plants listed in order of appearance from south to north on road.

1. Fern-leaved Desert Parsley Lomatium dissectum

2. Long-leaved Phlox: Phlox longifolia

3. Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

4. Big Root/ Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus

5. Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum

6. Henbit: Lamium amplexicaule

7. Bicolored Harvest Lily: Brodiaea howellii

8. Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabra

9. Ball-head Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum var. thompsonii- In bud, but not blooming yet.

10. Grass Widow: Sisyrinchium douglasii

11. Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus

12. Golden Currant: Ribes aureum

13. Shining Oregon Grape: Mahonia (Berberis) aquifolium


Intersection of Rock Creek Road & Newell Rd East to Summit of Ridge

1. Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

2. Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus

3. Wax currant: Ribes cereum

4. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

5. Gray-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium macrocarpum - Yellow form.......Several in bloom.

6. Hood's Phlox: Phlox hoodii

7. Northwest Balsamroot: Balsamhoriza deltoidea ? - Flowers barely blooming.


SR 14 near M.P. 143

1. Hairy Locoweed: Astragalus inflexus


Paul Slichter