[Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Reports]

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

March 1, 1998

Rusty-hair Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula

Salt and Pepper: Lomatium piperi

The photo at right shows salt & pepper: Lomatium piperi.

Memaloose Overlook

Grass Widow: Olsynium douglasii var. douglassii

Common Chickweed: Stellaria media

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum

Salt & Pepper or Piper's Desert Parsley: Lomatium piperi

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Common Butterweed: Senecio vulgaris

The Twin Tunnels, East Approach from Mosier, OR:

Grass Widow: Olsynium douglasii var. douglassii

Common Chickweed: Stellaria media

Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna

Rusty-hair Saxifrage: Micranthes rufidula

Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Columbia Desert Parsley: Lomatium columbianum

Pungent Desert Parsley: Lomatium papilioniferum ?

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Hood River Mountain Meadows

(Plants listed as seen from the bottom of the road to the top)

Grass Widow: Olsynium douglasii var. douglassii

Gold Stars: Crocidium multicaule

Salt & Pepper or Piper's Desert Parsley: Lomatium piperi ? - (The only wildflower currently bloom in the meadows at the top, amongst small piles of snow!)

Smooth Prairie Star: Lithophragma glabrum

Western Bitter Cress Cardamine oligosperma

Red-dead nettle: Lamium purpureum

Western Buttercup: Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis

Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway, Bridal Veil to Ainsworth State Park

Red Alder: Alnus rubra

Willow (large tree): Salix species

Sweet Rocket: Hesperis matronalis

Osoberry: Oemlaria cerasiformis

Periwinkle: Vinca major

Columbia Kittentails: Veronica missurica ssp. stellata

Sweet Colt's Foot: Petasites frigidus var. palmatus

Paul Slichter