« 2024-05 Columbia Basin

May 8, 2024: White Bluffs, Hanford Reach National Monument (Washington)

White Bluffs Trail

trail up to the White Bluffs
spiny hop-sage
White Bluffs & the Columbia River
Columbia cut-leaf (thread-leaf sunflower)
Columbia milk-vetch
Cusick's sunflower
lemon scurf-pea, budding
Carey's balsamroot
Yuba skipper butterfly & Cusick's sunflower
Cusick's sunflower
Carey's balsamroot
sand-dune penstemon
pale evening-primrose
long-beaked fiddle-mustard
rosy gilia
buckwheat milk-vetch
mountain digger bee on sand-dune penstemon
turpentine spring-parsley, going to seed
stalked-pod milk-vetch
stalked-pod milk-vetch pods
tansy-mustard
White Bluffs & the Columbia River
yellow bells, going to seed
buckwheat (which?)
sand dunes & sagebrush
low lupine
sand dunes & veiny dock
mystery dune plant
sand dunes
blowing sand
sand dune & blowing sand
veiny/winged dock
stalked puffball mushrooms
sandstone cliffs
compacted dunes
bank swallow nests
riverside cliffs & benches
white-stem blazing-star
mule deer
lupine
Cusick's sunflower
white mulberry
showy milkweed, budding
common reeds
Asian clam shell
bristly fiddleneck
female yellow-headed blackbirds
hemp dogbane leaves
cliffs & colorful grasses
underwater bird tracks

White Bluffs Overlook

very tall long-leaf phlox
cushion fleabane
woolly-pod milk-vetch
sunflowers below
white-stem blazing-star
sunflower-covered slope
white purple sage
cock's-comb cryptantha
White Bluffs bladder-pod
many-flower thelypody
Columbia River & Saddle Mountains
winter-fat
fleabane with white & yellow flowers
thread-leaf phacelia
cushion cryptantha

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