On Gerking Hollow Rd, 0.5 miles south of intersection with Scott Canyon Rd
April 9, 2000
A Native Plant Society of Oregon Field Trip
Plants with an asterisk (*) in front of them are currently in bloom.
1. Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Sitanion hystrix
*2. Bicolor Cluster Lily: probably Brodiaea howellii ?
3. Cottonwood: Populus species
*4. Willow: Salix species
5. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum
*6. Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata (formerly Montia perfoliata)
*7. Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna var. boerhaavii
8. Water Cress: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum
*9. Fringe Pod: Thysanocarpus curvipes
*10. Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora
*11. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii
*12. Columbia Gorge Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. thompsonianus
*13. Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus
14. White Clover: Trifolium repens
*15. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
*16. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi
*17. Nine-leaved Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum
*18. Sticky Shooting Star: Dodecatheon cusickii
*19. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia
20. Varied-leaf Phacelia: Phacelia heterophylla ?
*21. Tarweed Fiddleneck: Amsinckia lycopsoides
*22. Puccoon: Lithospermum ruderale
*23. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
24. American Speedwell: Veronica americana
25. Water Speedwell: Veronica anagallis-aquaticum
*26. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
27. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium
28. Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha
29. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata
*30. Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata
31. Tumble Knapweed: Centaurea diffusa
32. Yellow Star Thistle: Centaurea sostitialis
33. Hoary False Yarrow: Chaenactis douglasii
34. Green Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus visidiflorus
35. Gray Rabbitbrush: Chrysothamnus nauseousus
36. Wavy-leaf Thistle: Cirsium undulatum
37. Hawksbeard: Crepis species
38. Bearded Hawksbeard: Crepis atrabarba
39. Match Brush: Gutierrezia sarothrae
*40. False Agoseris: Microseris troximoides
1. numerous Pacific Tree Frogs
2. Water Striders
3. Caddisfly larvae
4. Mayfly larvae?
5. Whirligig beetles
6. Red-tail Hawk
7. Western Meadowlark