Natural History Wanderings

Pacific Northwest Wildflowers two new detailed wildflower reports for the Columbia River Gorge

April 24, 2015: Margerum Ranch (Columbia Land Trust Property)

April 22, 2015: Trails to Elowah and McCord Creek Falls, John B. Yeon State Park

Oregon Wildflowers has the following new posts

Rogue River, OR 04/22/2015 Trillium – a few open but many just budding On BLM land above East Evans Creek

Silver Falls Sate Park 4/21/15 Many of the woodland wildflowers are in full bloom, including western trillium, Calypso orchid, Oregon oxalis, Western wood anemone, and smooth yellow violet. Many of the riparian areas along Silver Creek are also blooming, with flowers including Smith’s fairybells, Scouler’s corydalis, Pacific bleeding heart, chickweed monkeyflower, small-flowered blue-eyed Mary, large-leaved avens, and clasping twisting stalk.

Metals River, OR 4/20/15  Lower Bridge north to Candle Creek. Hydrophyllum Capitatum (ballhead waterleaf), Purple and White Larkspur, Woodland Star, Miner’s Lettuce, Puccoon, Smoothstem Fireweed, Pioneer Violet, Nine Leaf Desert Parsley, Piper’s Anemone, Rockcress, Brown’s Peony in bud, Fritillaria atropupurea in bud.