April 27, 2023: Mill Creek Ridge (Wasco County, Oregon)

Mill Creek Ridge Natural Area (Columbia Land Trust)

Carey's balsamroot
convergent lady beetle (ladybug)
lance-leaf spring-beauty
yellow bells, fading to red
prairie stars
miner's lettuce
Columbia puccoon
honeybee & Columbia puccoon
harsh paintbrush
lupines
miniature lupine
whole-leaf saxifrage
sagebrush false dandelions
slender popcorn flower
rusty popcorn flower
paintbrush & balsamroot
bastard toad-flax, budding
white-stem frasera, budding
Columbia desert parsley
wildflowers
reddish honeybee on Columbia puccoon
wildflowers
balsamroot
pink larkspur
nine-leaf desert parsley
arrow-leaf (?) balsamroot
narrow-leaf owl's-clover/paintbrush
phacelia
manroot flowers
heart-leaf buckwheat, budding
naked broomrape
few-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
poet's shooting-stars
bare-stem desert parsley
balsamroot
big-head clover
Mill Creek Valley
yellow-rumped warbler
ball-head waterleaf
oaks toothwort
western groundsel
desert shooting-stars
prairie stars
few-flowered pea-vine, budding
balsamroot

Mill Creek Ridge (BLM)

yellow bells
glacier lilies
oaks toothwort
silver-crown leaves
grass-widow
gold stars
Mount Adams
white grass-widow
grass-widows
Columbia desert parsley
lance-leaf spring-beauty & gold stars
pungent desert parsley
Adam
Dalles Mountain buttercup
Dalles Mountain buttercups
brittle-leaf saxifrage
basalt crags
Dalles Mountain buttercups
Mount Adams
Piper's desert parsley (salt-and-pepper)
glacier lily
upland larkspur, budding
balsamroot, budding
trillium
fern-leaf desert parsley, budding

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