May 15-16, 2024: Whychus Creek & Deschutes River (Central Oregon)

Alder Springs/Whychus Creek Canyon

bitterroot
blue flax
sand lily
Cotton's stickseed
Old Bridge Trail ford across Whychus Creek
narrow-leaf miner's-lettuce
hairstreak & ringllet butterflies on yarrow
varied-leaf phacelia, budding
thread-stalk milk-vetch, budding
Oregon sunshine, budding
donkey-tail spurge
Whychus Creek Canyon
nine-leaf desert parsley
fruit fly gall on yellow rabbitbrush
western hawksbeard, budding
blazing-star
John Day cinquefoil
rock buckwheat
desert yellow daisies/fleabane
granite prickly-phlox leaves
last year's Great basin buckwheat
spring
Columbia puccoon
chokecherry, budding
carpet beetles on starry false solomon's-seal
American vetch
prairie star
Carey's balsamroot
rimrock & scrub
red-osier dogwood
few-flowered rock-cress
creeping Oregon-grape
last year's mock-orange seed-pods
rimrock & hoodoos
large-flowered cluster lilies
hoodoos
western sweet-cicely
cut-leaf penstemon leaves
Deschutes River
water ouzel (American dipper)
white-flowered currant, going to seed
Deschutes River
grand collomia
fern-leaf desert parsley
Scouler's hawkweed, budding
confluence of Whychus Creek & the Deschutes River
Mount Jefferson & juniper scrub
scabland milk-vetch, going to seed
low pussy-toes, female flowers
Carey's balsamroot
little-leaf ocean-spray (rock spiraea), budding
rimrock & junipers
northern Pacific rattlesnake
glaucon blue butterfly on spring parsley
juniper hairstreak butterflies on turpentine spring parsley
azure butterfly on spring parsley
rock layers
slender phlox, going to seed
Leiberg's stonecrop, budding
Idaho milk-vetch (and an ant)
gray horse-brush, budding
mystery onion
Nevada biscuitroot, going to seed
lots of bitterroot buds
annual agoseris, going to seed
spurred lupine
cushion fleabane
old-stem idahoa (scale-pod), gone to seed
mystery onion
scabland milk-vetch
panicled death-camas
western prairie-clover, budding
Whychus Creek Canyon
colorful rimrock
Whychus Creek road ford

Whychus Canyon Preserve

Brown's peony
antelope bitter-brush
prairie star
upland larkspur
dwarf purple monkeyflower
sand lilies
white tidy-tips
Nevada gilia
tiny slender phlox
showy townsendia
scarab beetle
Hood's phlox
hairy woodpecker's nest
sulphur-flower buckwheat
wallflower
gold stars
big-seed biscuitroot
Bolander's linanthus
juniper hairstreak butterfly on cushion fleabane
Carey's balsamroot
Three Sisters
false agoseris (sagebrush dandelion)
rough eyelash-weed
least tarweed
nine-leaf desert parsley
Peck's paintbrush
taper-tip hawksbeard, budding
Leiberg's stonecrop, budding
lowly penstemon, budding
cryptantha or popcorn flower

Steamboat Rock

thread-stalk milk-vetch
ornate checkered beetles on yarrow
juniper hairstreak butterflies on cut-leaf thelypody
Broken Top & Three Sisters
volcano panorama
fiddleneck
Gray Butte & the Smith Rock area
Cotton's stickseed
Blue Mountain buckwheat
branching phacelia, budding

Steelhead Falls

juniper hairstreak butterfly on thread-stalk milk-vetch
Idaho milk-vetch
yellow bells seed capsule
white-stem blazing-star
fruit fly galls on green rabbit-brush
Deschutes River Canyon
Veatch's blazing-star
thread-leaf phacelia
woolly groundsel
Steelhead Falls
Steelhead Falls
Carey's balsamroot
sedge
cut-leaf thelypody
Deschutes River

Scout Camp Trail

white-stem blazing-star
showy townsendia
desert yellow fleabane full of galls
Carey's balsamroot
Deschutes River
white tidy-tips
desert paintbrush
slender clarkia
Deschutes monkeyflower
heart-leaf buckwheat
varied-leaf phacelia
Modoc gilia
rock buckwheat
mystery onion, going to seed
Deschutes River
hoodoos & rimrock
cliff-top turpentine spring-parsley
Deschutes River
mystery onion
thread-leaf phacelia
Hood's phlox
red rock
rock layers
hoodoos & balsamroot
Nevada side-blotched lizard
Nevada side-blotched lizard
Woods' rose
smooth horsetails
Deschutes River
curve-pod milk-vetch
harvester ants
curve-pod milk-vetch pods
Franciscan (clustered) broomrape
desert paintbrush
red-stem miner's-lettuce

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