[Eastern Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers East of the Mouth of the Deschutes River

Slopes (facing north) about 1/2-3/4 miles east of the State Park

April 2, 2000

 

A Native Plant Society of Oregon Field Trip


Plants with an asterisk (*) in front of them are currently in bloom.

1. Bicolored Cluster Lily: probably Brodiaea howellii

2. Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

3. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum

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

*5. Chickweed: Stellaria media

*6. Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

*7. Sagebrush Buttercup: Ranunculus glaberrimus var. glaberrimus

8. Stonecrop: Sedum leibergii

*9. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii

10. Thick-leaf Thelypody: Thelypodium laciniatum var. laciniatum

11. Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes

*12. Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

*13. Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabra

*14. Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora

*15. Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia var. leptopetala

16. Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii

*17. Golden Currant: Ribes aureum

18. Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

19. Chokecherry: Prunus virginiana

20. Rose: Rosa species

21. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

22. Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus - broad haired leaflets, leaves just emerging from ground (Lupinus leucophyllus?)

23. Whitish Lupine: Lupinus sulphureus ? Just commencing bloom, few or no basal leaves

24. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

25. Chervil: Anthriscus scandina

*26. Fern-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium dissectum var. multifidum

*27. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

*28. Smooth Desert Parsley: Lomatium laevigatum

*29. Bare-stem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule

*30. Nine-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

*31. Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens

*32. Cusick's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon cusickii

*33. Poet's Shooting Star: Dodecatheon poeticum

*34. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*35. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

36. Silver-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia hastata

*37. Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

*38. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

*39. Slender Popcorn Flower: Plagiobothrys tenellus

*40. Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida

*41. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

42. Cut-leaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii

43. Annual Bedstraw: Galium aparine var. echinospermum

*44. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

45. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

46. Agoseris or Microseris species

47. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata

*48. Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

49. Gray Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus nauseosus

50. Green Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

51. Wavy-leaf Thistle: Cirsium undulatum

52. Gray Hawksbeard: Crepis intermedia

53. Western Hawksbeard: Crepis occidentalis


Paul Slichter