« 2023-05 Columbia Plateau

May 11, 2023: Vantage Highway (Kittitas & Grant Counties, Washington)

Quilomene Wildlife Area

pungent desert parsley
sagebrush & wind turbines
Canby's desert parsley, going to seed
narrow-leaf goldenweed
Hood's phlox
narrow-leaf pussy-toes (male flowers)
long-leaf phlox
panicled death-camas, budding
long-flowered bluebells
dagger-pod
rock lupines
white rock lupine
Douglas' (tufted) phlox
wildflowers & sagebrush
Hooker's balsamroot & rock lupines
Thompson's paintbrush
rock lupines
Hooker's balsamroot & rock lupines
slender prairie star
taper-tip onion, budding
Leiberg's milk-vetch
cushion fleabane, budding
Umtanum desert parsley
basalt cactus
ball-head waterleaf
lupines
Leiberg's milk-vetch, budding
rock lupines
Hooker's balsamroot & rock lupines
basalt cactus
basalt cactus with old dead spines
basalt cactus
bitterroot, budding
scilla-like onion
mining bee departing from basalt cactus
sagebrush violet
woolly-pod milk-vetch
Hooker's balsamroot
big-head clover
wind turbines
rock lupines & Hoooker's balsamroot
thyme-leaf buckwheat
bitterroot
colorful Douglas' buckwheat buds
Douglas' (tufted) phlox
false agoseris
Lyall's milk-vetch

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park

cushion fleabane
thread-leaf fleabane
spiral-pod milk-vetch
grand collomia
upland larkspur, flowering & fruiting
large-flowered triteleia
showy phlox
Blue Mountain buckwheat
wing-nut cryptantha
spiral-pod milk-vetch
rock buckwheat, budding
spiral-pod milk-vetch seed pods
Schnebly Coulee
desert yellow daisies
desert yellow daisies & sagebrush

Basalt Gardens (Wanapum Dunes)

Carey's balsamroot
thread-leaf phacelia
Columbia milk-vetch
gray cryptantha
purple sage
Franklin's sandwort
sand-dune penstemon
mason bee on white-stem blazing-star
pale evening-primrose
matted cryptantha
pale wallflower
turpentine spring-parsley, going to seed
basalt cliffs & shrub-steppe
white sand-verbena
Nevada side-blotched lizard
basalt cliffs & sand dunes
grasshopper with red/orange wings
white tidy-tips
Gairdner's penstemon
wildflowers
The Dalles milk-vetch seed pods
The Dalles milk-vetch
sagebrush stick-seed
parsnip-flower buckwheat, budding
bastard toadflax
spiny hop-sage (male flowers)
spiny hop-sage (female flowers)
rounded basalt columns
basalt columns & desert yellow daisies
basalt cliffs & shrub-steppe

Basalt Pillars

buckwheat milk-vetch
granite prickly-phlox
woolly-pod milk-vetch
purple sage
thyme-leaf buckwheat
desert yellow daisies
Franklin's sandwort
Columbia River (Wanapum Lake)
cushion fleabane
fiddleneck

Rocky Coulee Recreation Area

showy milkweed, budding
Columbia River (Wanapum Lake)
Columbia River (Wanapum Lake)
sketchy traverse
holes in the cliffs
purple sage
cushion fleabane
wind turbines

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