Rich, Sunny, Darryl, Bob, Tracy, Barry, Sabin and I trooped up to Soda Mountain to the Little Pilot Peak trail head on a lovely June morning, warmer that expected. The wildflower finds began almost immediately and people were quizzing each other and making observations -- everyone is becoming a bona fide wildflower floozy.
We discovered -- count 'em-- 70 different species on the trail, BY FAR the highest count in the brief two years we've been doing this, a real testament to the sharp eyes of the crew!
Respectfully submitted
Flower Floozy Liz
Arrowleaf balsamroot
Ball-headed waterleaf
Balloon-pod milk-vetch
Blue dick
Broadleaf arnica
Brown's peony
Calypso orchid/Fairy slipper
Corn lily (some in bud -- may flower next few days)
Common vetch
Dwarf hesperochiron/Spring beauty
Fendler's meadow rue
Fendler's waterleaf
Field rockcress
Forktooth Ookow
Forget-me-not
Frosty (Indian) paintbrush
Fuzzy/Ashland cinquefoil
Hall's lomatium
Hooker's fairybell
Leafy fleabane
Little minors lettuce
Manroot/Wild cucumber
Meadow delphinium
Mission bells/Checker lilly
Miners lettuce
Nineleaf biscuitroot
Nodding microceres
Northwest (purple!) paintbrush
Oregon anemone
Pale allysum
Pink allysum
Pestle lomatium
Pioneer violet
Plumed Solomon seal |
Royal Jacob's ladder
Rosy plectrits/Sea blush - lots
Rough eyelash weed
Roezl's penstemon
Scouter's hawkweed
Silky lupine
Siskiyou onion
Siskiyou iris
Silver leaf phaceila
Slender phlox
Small-flowered blue-eyed Mary
Starry Solomon seal - lots
Sulfur-flower buckwheat
Sweet Cecily
Toothwort/Milkmaid - lots
Upland larkspur
Western baneberry
Western groundsel
Western sorrel
Western trillium
White plectritis
White triteleia
Woodland star
Wood strawberry
Wooly breaches
Yellow buttons/Scabland fleabane
Yellow salsify
Zigadene/Death camas
Flowering shubs:
Bitter cherry
Dwarf or dull Oregon grape
Red flowering current
Sticky white current
Tall shiny Oregon grape
Thorny gooseberry
Trailing Oregon grape
Western/Utah Serviceberry |