April 22 & June 6, 2021: McCord Creek & Elowah Falls (Columbia River Gorge, Oregon)

The trail to McCord Creek Falls has a bunch of weird flowers — some that you don't usually find in the Gorge, and some that you rarely find anywhere. So I visited twice, six weeks apart.

April 22, 2021

bleeding hearts
fireweed leaves
elderflowers & currant flowers
western meadow-rue, male flowers
Cascade Oregon-grape
western meadow-rue, female flowers
fringe cups
feathery false solomon's-seal
sword fern fiddleheads
small-flowered alumroot, budding
Scouler's valerian, budding
large-flowered blue-eyed-mary
Sitka mist-maidens
gold stars
spotted towhee
Columbia Gorge larkspur, flowering and budding
desert parsley
Sitka mist-maidens
rusty-hair saxifrage
Oregon sunshine, budding
Columbia Gorge fleabane leaves
Mertens' saxifrage
white shooting stars, budding
Oregon stonecrop leaves
cliff paintbrush
Elowah Falls
bottom of Elowah Falls
Pacific waterleaf leaves
vine maple flowers
Upper McCord Creek Falls
Scouler's corydalis
Scouler's corydalis, budding
Sitka willow
little western bitter-cress
rosy plectritis, budding
baneberry
yellow monkeyflower
cliff penstemon, budding
Howell's fleabane, budding
chickweed monkeyflower
Columbia Gorge larkspur
serviceberry flowers
candy flower
trail through Eagle Creek Fire damage
Scouler's valerian
salmonberry flowers
Elowah Falls & landslide debris
Hooker's fairy bells
thimbleberry, budding
bitter cherry flowers

June 6, 2021

white spirea
Cascades penstemon
wallflowers
poison-oak berries
Pacific nine-bark, going to seed
Oregon bolandra (coolwort)
bronze bells (western feather bells)
Columbia Gorge larkspur, gone to seed
heart-leaf buckwheat
long-bearded hawkweed
Columbia Gorge fleabane
long-bearded hawkweed
Oregon bolandra (coolwort)
broad-leaf stonecrop & cliff paintbrush
skinny harebells
bald eagles
blue spreading stickseed
yarrow with enormous leaves
Columbia Gorge fleabane
white shooting star
Elowah Falls & wildflowers
cliff paintbrush
Howell's fleabane
Mertens' saxifrage bulblets
Columbia kitten-tails, going to seed
Scouler's corydalis
streambank arnica
tall bugbane
Upper McCord Creek Falls
Lewis' mock orange
spiny gall on a rose leaf

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