Access via exit off Interstate 84 at Philippi Canyon Rd. Proceed up road approximately 0.9 miles from freeway exit. Area reviewed is on the east side of the road and includes a draw and hillside.
April 23, 2000
Access via exit off Interstate 84 at Philippi Canyon Rd. Proceed up road approximately 0.9 miles from freeway exit. Area reviewed is on the east side of the road and includes a draw and hillside.
April 23, 2000
Plants with an asterisk (*) in front of them are currently in bloom.
*1. Bicolored
Cluster Lily: Brodiaea howellii
2. Stinging Nettles: Urtica dioica
3. Strict Buckwheat: Eriogonum strictum var. proliferum
4. Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia (Montia) perfoliata
*5. Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora
6. Saxifrage: Saxifraga species (integrifolia or occidentalis) Long past bloom
*7. Wax (Squaw) Currant: Ribes cereum
8. Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
*9. Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus
*10. Lupine: Lupinus sulphureus var. subsaccatus
11. Lance-leaf Scurf-pea: Psoralea lanceolata
12. Poison Oak: Rhus radicans
*13. Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
*14. Chervil: Anthriscus scandicina
*15. Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium grayi
*16. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia
*17. Fiddleneck: Amsinckia species
*18. White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
*19. Yarrow: Achillea millefolium Almost in bloom.
20. Big Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata
*21. Carey's Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana - (multiple flower heads per stem)
22. Match Brush: Gutierrezia sarothrae