Natural History Wanderings

Pacific Northwest Wildflowers has two recent reports

Seven Mile Hill a detailed wildflowers, trees, lichens and animals including birds report for February 11, 2015 at: Current Wildflower Bloom on Sevenmile Hill (via USFS Right of Way from Sevenmile Road)……..February 13, 2015.

Memaloose Trail on February 11, 2015  from Eastbound Memaloose Rest Area on Interstate 84 west up to Memaloose Overlook (on US 30), south to Marsh Hill, south and then east across Marsh Cutoff Road across public lands towards Dell Road, then back north across US 30 to the east end of the rest area. Plants are slower to bloom here than on the Washington side of the river. Plants observed in bloom were Columbia desert parsley (Lomatium columbianum), pungent desert parsley (Lomatium grayi),  salt and pepper (Lomatium piperi), grass widows (Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii), Smooth prairiestars (Lithophragma glabrum), and the first western buttercups(Ranunculus occidentalis) of the season.