April 24-25, 2022: John Day River Basin (North-Central Oregon)

Rooper Road & Highway 218 (Wasco County)

John Day desert parsley
cous biscuitroot & John Day desert parsley
gold stars
nine-leaf desert parsley
desert larkspur, budding
Piper's desert parsley
slender-fruited desert parsley
Mount Jefferson & sagebrush
John Day desert parsley
rock runnels
rock onion
Tolmie's onion, budding
old-stem scale-pod
pale spring-beauty
grass-widow
desert shooting stars
alpine ball-head waterleaf
Hood's phlox
small-flowered Jacob's-ladder
silvery blue butterfly
Canby's desert parsley, going to seed
cous biscuitroot
Donnell's desert parsley
southwest ridge of Peak 4320
bare-stem desert parsley
fiddleneck
Carey's balsamroot
John Day Valley

Spring Basin Wilderness (Wheeler County)

very tall nine-leaf desert parsley
yarrow
rock buckwheat
agate?
rough eyelash-weed
black-spined snowball cactus
black-spined snowball cactus
Horse Mountain
yellow-hair paintbrush
white-stem blazing-star
heart-leaf buckwheat
pungent desert parsley, going to seed
black-spined snowball cactus
katydid
thread-leaf phacelia
blazing-star (which?)
Veatch's blazing-star (?)
blazing-star (which?)
view to the south-southeast
John Day milk-vetch
cactus & desert parsley
white plectritis
cock's-comb cryptantha, budding
crustose lichen
last year's cock's-comb cryptantha
sticky phlox
sticky phlox
black-spined snowball cactus
antelope bitter-brush
Munro's globe-mallow, budding
gooseberry-leaf globe-mallow, budding
woolly-pod milk-vetch
thread-stalk milk-vetch
blue butterfly on tansy-mustard
view toward Black Rock

John Day Fossil Beds, Clarno Unit (Wheeler County)

The Palisades
The Palisades
last year's horehound flowers
bristly fiddleneck
gooseberry-leaf globe-mallow, budding
Clarno Arch
phacelia, budding
brown-spotted range grasshopper

Shelton Wayside County Park (Wheeler County)

heart-leaf arnica shoots
corn lily shoots
glacier lilies
waterleaf, budding
small-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
sagebrush buttercups
prairie stars
glacier lilies
elk sedge
Butler Mountain
Baldy Mountain
dry-ground lupine

Sutton Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wheeler County)

California quail
yellow-hair paintbrush
Idaho milk-vetch
yellow-hair paintbrush
Sutton Mountain & Meyers Canyon
Bailey Butte & White Butte
tufted evening-primrose
blazing-star
cock's-comb cryptantha
panicled death-camas, budding
fennel-leaved spring-parsley
western bladder-pod/twin-pod
bur buttercups
young Belding's ground squirrels
Belding's ground squirrels
wax currant
cursed buttercup leaves
dry waterfall
slender popcorn flower
Girds Creek Canyon
brittle prickly-pear cactus
Henderson's desert parsley, going to seed
dry-ground lupine
Black Canyon
northern Pacific rattlesnake
northern Pacific rattlesnake
false agoseris
prairie stars
dark-throated shooting stars
upland larkspur
serviceberry flowers
pale alyssum
cock's-comb cryptantha
rock onion
John Day cinquefoil, budding
western bladder-pod/twin-pod
few-flowered rock-cress
yellow-hair paintbrush
pungent desert parsley
white plectritis & pungent desert parsley
small-flowered Jacob's-ladder
desert shooting stars
big-seed biscuitroot
bitterroot, budding
rock onions
woolly-pod milk-vetch
saxifrage
white-flowered currant
last year's dark-throated shooting stars
dark-throated shooting stars
side canyon
panicled death-camas
last year's sagebrush mariposa lily
low pussy-toes (male flowers)
Girds Creek Canyon & Squaw Butte
curl-leaf mountain-mahogany flowers
cluster lily, budding
John Day River & Kentucky Ridge
yellow-hair paintbrush
wallflower
north side of the Sutton Mountain massif
beige basin
beaver skull
black-spined snowball cactus
thread-stalk milk-vetch, budding
woolly-pod milk-vetch
purple sage leaves
Veatch's blazing-star (?)
beige basin
Carroll Rim
yellow-hair paintbrush growing in the shade
Tolmie's onion
scabland milk-vetch

John Day Painted Hills (Wheeler County)

Painted Hills
Painted Hills panorama
golden bee plant
John Day pincushion, budding
Cusick's sunflower leaves
bristly fiddleneck
Red Scar Knoll (Red Hill)
bitterroot growing under a rock
yellow bell, going to seed
white tidy-tips
painted hills
fiddleneck
golden bee plant
Tolmie's onion
brittle prickly-pear cactus

Rimrock Springs (Jefferson County)

purple Douglas' phlox
Donnell's desert parsley
Douglas' phlox & gold stars
desert parsley seeds
woolly-pod milk-vetch
white Douglas' phlox
few-flowered rock-cress
yellow bell
gold stars

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