[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers along the Old Gorge Highway 30

(between Mosier, OR and Tom McCall Nature Preserve)

March 23, 2000

Grass widows in bloom west of the Tom McCall Nature Preserve........March 23, 2000.

Grass widows in bloom west of the Tom McCall Nature Preserve........March 23, 2000. A variegated grass widow may be seen at lower right.

Pale-anthered Glacier Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum

Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

Douglas' Grass Widow: Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii

Line-leaf Montia: Montia linearis

Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata

Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis

Oaks Toothwort: Cardamine nuttallii

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

Northwestern Saxifrage: Micranthes integrifolia

Rusty-haired Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula

Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum

Gray-leaf Desert Parsely: Lomatium macrocarpum- Yellow-flowered form.

Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum ?

Meadow Nemophila: Nemophila pedunculata

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Paul Slichter