[Gresham/Troutdale, OR Wildflower Report]

Currently Blooming Wildflowers in east Multnomah County, Gresham & Troutdale, Oregon

Gresham & Troutdale, Oregon

May 7, 1998

 


White Flowers

Candy Flower: Montia siberica

Miner's Lettuce: Montia perfoliata

Fairy Bells: Disporum hookeri var. oreganum

Fairy Lanterns: Disporum smithii

False Lily-of-the-valley: Maianthemum dilatatum

False Solomon Seal: Smilacina racemosa

Star-flowered False Solomon Seal: Smilacina stellata

White Campion: Lychnis alba

Pacific Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum tenuipes

Inside-out Flower: Vancouveria hexandra

White Clover: Trifolium repens

Serviceberry: Amelanchier alnifolia Large bush or small tree.

Pacific Dogwood: Cornus nuttallii Tree.

Hawthorn: Crataegus species- Tree with straight thorns.

Creek Dogwood: Cornus stolonifera var. occidentalis- Large bush/small tree of streamsides and ditches with clusters of small flowers.

Oregon Wood Sorrel/ Sour Grass: Oxalis oregana

Wood's Strawberry: Fragaria vesca var. bracteata

Dog Fennel/ Mayweed: Anthemis cotula

Yarrow: Achillea millefolium

Cow Parsnip: Heracleum lanatum

Wild Cucumber: Marah oreganus

Ox-eye Daisy: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum

Western Bitter Cress: Cardamine hirsuta

Himalayan Blackberry: Rubus discolor- The big weedy blackberry.

Thimbleberry: Rubus parviforus

Dewberry/ Trailing Blackberry: Rubus ursinus


Pink, Red, or Purplish Flowers

Foxglove: Digitalis purpurea

Fairy Slipper: Calypso bulbosa

Red Dead Nettle: Lamium purpureum

Nootka Rose: Rosa nutkana- Wild rose bush of fields.

Little Wild Rose: Rosa gymnocarpa- Wild rose of open forests-small thumb-sized flowers.

Bleeding Hearts Dicentra formosa

Everlasting Pea: Lathyrus latifolius

Common Vetch: Vicia sativa- Vetch with clusters of one or two flowers.

Annual Cow Vetch: Vicia villosa- Vetch with clusters of many flowers.

Honesty Lunaria annua

Sweet Rocket: Hesperis matronalis This one looks like Honesty but smells good and doesn't have the round seed pods!

Slender Toothwort: Cardamine pulcherrima var. tenella

Wild Ginger: Asarum caudatum

Red Clover: Trifolium pratense

Red-flowering Currant Ribes sanguineum

Salmonberry Rubus spectabilis


Blue Flowers

Oregon Flag: Iris tenax

Woods Forget-me-not Myosotis sylvatica

Chicory: Cichorium intybus

Bachelor's Button: Centaurea cyanus- May be violet to whitish also!

Common Camas: Camassia quamash- Found along the Columbia River and into the gorge.

Common Broad-leaf Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius

Large-leaf Lupine: Lupinus polyphyllus


Yellow Flowers

Rough Wallflower: Erysimum capitatum

American Winter Cress: Barbarea orthoceras

Large-leaved Avens: Geum macrophyllum

Skunk-cabbage Lysichiton americanus

Tansy Ragwort: Senecio jacobaea

Johnny Jump Up/Wood Violet: Viola glabella

Scotch Broom: Cytisus scoparius

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale

False Dandelion: Hypochoeris radicata

Common Groundsel Senecio vulgaris

Field Mustard Brassica rapa

Oregon Grape Berberis aquifolium


Orange Flowers

California Poppy: Eschscholzia californica


Brown Flowers

Youth-on-age: Tolmiea menziesii Looks like a Fringe-cups but with skinny brown flowers.


Paul Slichter