[Eastern Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers in the Columbia River Gorge

State park at the mouth of the John Day River

April 9, 2000

A Native Plant Society of Oregon Field Trip


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

1. Horsetail: Equisetum species

2. Brittle Bladder-fern: Cystopteris fragilis

3. Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Sitanion hystrix

*4. Bicolored Cluster Lily: Brodiaea howellii

5. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum

6. Russian Thistle: Salsola kali

*7. Chickweed: Stellaria media

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

*9. Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

10. Tansymustard: Descurainia richardsonii

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

12. Rough Wall Flower: Erysimum asperum

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

*14. Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes

15. Stonecrop: Sedum species

*16. Bulblet Prairie Star: Lithophragma bulbifera

*17. Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora

*18. Northwestern Saxifrage: Saxifraga integrifolia

19. Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii

*20. Golden Currant: Ribes aureum

*21. Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia

22. Chokecherry: Prunus virginiana

*23. Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata

*24. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii

*25. Yakima Milk-vetch: Astragalus reventiformis

26. The Dalles Milk-vetch: Astragalus sclerocarpus ? (not quite in bloom)

*27. Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. thompsonianus

*28. Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus

*29. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

30. Chervil: Anthriscus scandina

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

*32. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi

*33. Nine-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum

*34. Desert Shooting Star: Dodecatheon conjugens

*35. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

*36. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia

37. Phacelia: Phacelia species (probably hastata or heterophylla)

*38. Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides

39. Branching Stickseed: Hackelia diffusa var. cottonii (white-flowered variety)

*40. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale

41. Harsh Paintbrush: Castilleja hispida

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

43. Cut-leaf Penstemon: Penstemon richardsonii

*44. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera

45. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

46. Dragon Wormwood (Tarragon): Artemisia dracunculus

47. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata

*48. Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

49. Diffuse Knapweed: Centaurea diffusa

50. Yellow Star Thistle: Centaurea sostitialis

51. Green Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus visidiflorus

52. Gray Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus nauseousus

53. Wavy-leaf Thistle: Cirsium undulatum

54. Hawksbeard: Crepis species

55. Bearded Hawksbeard: Crepis barbigera

*56. Goldstar: Crocidium multicaule

57. Thread-leaf Fleabane: Erigeron filifolius ? (almost in bloom)

58. Hawkweed: Hieracium species

*59. False Agoseris: Microseris troximoides


Animals Seen:

1. Rattlesnake

2. male Pheasant

3. Starlings

4. Canyon Wren?

5. Say's Phoebe (nest in cliff?)


Paul Slichter