March 27, 1998
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.
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.
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
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.
1. Hairy Locoweed: Astragalus inflexus