[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

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

Horsethief Butte

Columbia Hills Historical State Park

March 23, 2000

Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense

Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense

* indicates the plant is currently in bloom.

Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata

Tansy Mustard: Descurainia richardsonii

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

* Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera (Now included as part of Lithophragma glabrum)

* Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

* Columbia Saxifrage: Micranthes nidifica

*Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

* Klickitat (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense

Smooth Desert Parsley: Lomatium laevigatum

Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

* Butterfly-loving (Pungent) Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum

Nine-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum

Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens

Cusick's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon cusickii ?

Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum

Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

Northwest (hybrid ?) Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule


Paul Slichter