« 2024-05 Columbia Basin

May 9, 2024: Horn Rapids Park & Rattlesnake Slope (Benton County, Washington)

Horn Rapids Park

bristly fiddleneck
pale pink prairie-clover
Columbia cut-leaf (thread-leaf sunflower)
western prairie-clover
pale evening-primrose
woody-pod milk-vetch
wallflower (which?)
blazing-star (which?)
white-stem globe-mallow
last year's yellow rabbitbrush flowers
Columbia milk-vetch
purple sage
western prairie-clover
turpentine spring-parsley, going to seed
Nuttall's crinkle-mat (sand-mat)
Lott's gilia
giant blazing-star leaves
golden currant berries

Rattlesnake Slope

slender hawksbeard
Piper's daisies
fleabane with white and yellow flowers
white-stem globe-mallow
globe-mallow chimney bees
thread-leaf fleabane
galls on fiddleneck
big-seed biscuitroot, going to seed
cushion fleabane
Columbia milk-vetch pods
bristly fiddleneck
false agoseris (sagebrush dandelion), going to seed
woolly plantain
showy townsendia
Rattlesnake Hills & bunchgrass
sagebrush mariposa lily, budding
Carey's balsamroot
Cusick's sunflower
Rattlesnake Hills & wildflowers
velvet lupine
velvet lupine
Cusick's sunflowers & velvet lupines
velvet lupine & Cusick's sunflowers
blue flax
Cusick's sunflowers
buckwheat milk-vetch
long-leaf phlox
dry gully
large-flowered cluster lily, fading
pungent desert parsley, going to seed
Cusick's sunflower
tansy-aster leaves (?)
white plectritis
shaggy fleabane
globe-mallow chimney bees
white-stem globe-mallow
globe-mallow chimney bee nests

Amon Creek Preserve

veiny/winged dock
turpentine spring-parsley
sand-dune penstemon
sand-dune penstemon
woody-pod milk-vetch
buckwheat milk-vetch
white-stem globe-mallow
spiny hop-sage
wild rose
bastard toad-flax

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