Natural History Wanderings

Oregon Wildflowers has a new wildflower report for Crescent Mt.

Many wildflowers are blooming at Crescent Mountain! Although the bear grass Xerophyllum tenax is not quite as robust as last year, it is very profuse in the meadows and continues along the trail beyond the meadows to the summit.

Blooming in the forest: bunchberry Cornus pumila, thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus, western white anemone Anemone deltoidea, Pacific bleeding heart Dicentra formosa, queen’s cup Clintonia uniflora, foamflower Tiarella cordifolia, western columbine Aquilegia formosa, spotted coralroot Corallorhiza maculata, western coralroot Corallorhiza mertensiana, western starflower Trientalis latifolia, candystick Allotropa virgata, pinesap Monotropa hypopithys, heart-leaved pyrola Pyrola asarifolia, and one-sided wintergreen Pyrola secunda.

Blooming in the meadows: the aforementioned bear grass, scarlet gilia pomopsis aggregata, profuse bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum, lupine Lupinus sp., western columbine Aquilegia formosa, Menzies’ larkspur Delphinium menziesii, harsh paintbrush Castilleja hispida, Oregon sunshine Eriophyllum lanatum, Cascade aster Aster ledophyllus, Subalpine mariposa lily Calochortus subalpinus, tall bluebells Mertensia paniculata, yarrow Achillea millefolium, pink owl-clover Orthocarpus imbricatus, orange agoseris Agoseris aurantiaca, Cardwell’s penstemon Penstemon cardwellii, mountain strawberry Fragaria virginiana, a few Cascade lily Lilium washingtonianum, and cliff penstemon Penstemon rupicola near the summit.

Find older reports at Oregon Wildflowers

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