January 26 & February 12, 2023: Eastern Columbia River Gorge (Klickitat County, Washington & Wasco County, Oregon)

A very late year for Gorge wildflowers; usually there would be a lot more happening by mid-February.

January 26: Horsethief Butte & Doug's Beach State Park

Columbia River
phacelia leaves
velvet lupine leaves
buckwheat leaves
mushroom
licorice fern
Horsethief Butte & Mount Hood
yarrow leaves
last year's Columbia goldenweed
lace lip fern
Wallace's spike-moss
western poison-ivy berries
brittle-leaf saxifrage leaves
red-osier dogwood twigs
brittle-leaf saxifrage, budding
seasonal waterfall
cliffs
Columbia desert parsley shoot

January 26: Catherine Creek & The Labyrinth

rusty-hair saxifrage
mushroom
grass-widow shoots
bitterroot leaves
rusty-hair saxifrage, budding
mushrooms
first grass-widow of the year
prairie star leaves
larkspur leaves
Klickitat desert parsley shoots
Gorman's desert parsley (salt-and-pepper)
basalt crags

February 12: Crates Point, The Dalles

grass-widow
Columbia desert parsley
Gorman's desert parsley (salt-and-pepper)
poison-oak berries
Columbia desert parsley
rusty-hair saxifrage
grass-widow shoots
view to the east
Crates Point
buttercup leaves
Mount Hood
Mount Adams & the Columbia River
prairie star leaves
elk
Mt. Ulka Preserve

February 12: Rowena Plateau

grass-widows
grass-widows
mouth of the Klickitat River
Gorman's desert parsley
snow buckwheat leaves & last year's stalks

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