« 2023-05 Columbia Plateau

May 9, 2023: Tri-Cities: Wallula Gap, Badger Mountain, & Horse Heaven Hills (Washington)

Wallula Gap

yarrow
antelope bitter-brush
white big-seed biscuitroot
turpentine spring-parsley
Juniper Canyon
mouth of Juniper Canyon
large-flowered triteleia
upland larkspur
long-leaf phlox
nine-leaf desert parsley
Carey's balsamroot
fiddleneck
double-crested cormorant
Columbia River at Wallula Gap
sagebrush & basalt
yellow-bellied marmot
Carey's balsamroot
purple sage
thread-leaf fleabane
cliffs & crags
cushion fleabane
bastard toadflax
Twin Sisters
desert stink beetle
pale wallflower seed pods
Douglas' pincushion, budding
veiny/winged dock
phacelia
pale wallflower
Twin Sisters & sand dunes
pale evening-primrose
white tidy-tips
long-leaf phlox
Twin Sisters
Columbia River at Wallula Gap

Badger Mountain

Carey's balsamroot
fiddleneck
nine-leaf desert parsley
lupines
Thompson's paintbrush
long-leaf phlox
rosy balsamroot
rosy balsamroot
woolly-pod milk-vetch
Columbia milk-vetch
Tri-Cities
winter-fat
horned lark
buckwheat milk-vetch
Candy Mountain, Red Mountain, & Rattlesnake Mountain
cushion fleabane
low pussy-toes, female flowers
lupines
spiny hop-sage (female flowers)
Columbia milk-vetch seed pods
blister beetle
Piper's daisies
Horse Heaven Hills
hybrid rosy balsamroot
showy townsendia
woolly-pod milk-vetch pods
balsamroot & lupines
hybrid rosy balsamroot
chukar
Blue Mountain buckwheat
Piper's daisies
slender hawksbeard

Horse Heaven Hills

hoary tansy-aster leaves
large-flowered triteleia
buckwheat milk-vetch
white plectritis, going to seed
Horse Heaven Hills
Horse Heaven Hills
Columbia puccoon with 6 petals/lobes
sticky-stem penstemon & sagebrush
lupines
Columbia puccoon
Rickard's milk-vetch
Horse Heaven Hills
long-leaf phlox
sticky-stem penstemon
penstemon & lupines
balsamroot & penstemon
Thompson's paintbrush
Horse Heaven Hills & Rattlesnake Hills
lupines
showy townsendia, budding
cushion fleabane
balsamroot & lupine
wildflowers
lupine & balsamroot
lupine & balsamroot
lupine & balsamroot
rosy balsamroot
Modoc hawksbeard
lupines, rosy balsamroot, & farm fields
Rattlesnake Hills
female pronghorn antelope
male pronghorn antelope
Carey's balsamroot
freckled milk-vetch
Columbia milk-vetch
woolly-pod milk-vetch
spiral-pod milk-vetch
lupines

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