« 2025-04 Central Washington

April 10-11, 2025: Vantage Highway, Babcock Bench, Basalt Gardens, & Basalt Pillars (Kittitas & Grant Counties, Washington)

Quilomene Wildlife Area (Kittitas County)

Hood's phlox
sagebrush buttercup
small-flowered Jacob's-ladder
sagebrush violets
orange lichen on scabland sagebrush
Hooker's balsamroot, budding
narrow-leaf pussy-toes
Douglas' phlox
basalt cactus
prairie stars
Umtanum desert parsley
big-head clover, budding
Canby's desert parsley fruits
rock lupine

Vantage Highway (Kittitas County)

pungent desert parsley
Carey's balsamroot
prairie star
fern-leaf desert parsley with blue-green leaves
Hooker's balsamroot with coiled petals
Douglas' phlox
last year's mock-orange
white plectritis
bugloss fiddleneck

Babcock Bench (Grant County)

showy phlox
Douglas' phlox
hybrid balsamroot
purple sage leaves
spring-parsley, budding
spiny hop-sage, budding
crustose lichen
cut-leaf penstemon leaves
Carey's balsamroot
basalt steps
last year's many-flower thelypody
thread-leaf phacelia
Columbia milk-vetch
Carey's balsamroot & sagebrush
last year's cut-leaf thelypody
sagebrush mariposa lily leaves
Columbia River
panicled death-camas
Carey's balsamroot & basalt cliffs
crab spider on balsamroot
old road
fiddleneck
sandy gully
Bingen lupine
Bingen lupines
sandy gully
flat-spine bur-ragweed seedling
phlox
very round darkling beetle
upland larkspur
fragile/scilla-like onion, fading

Basalt Gardens (Grant County)

bastard toad-flax
fennel-leaf spring-parsley
Franklin's sandwort, budding
sand-dune penstemon, budding
wallflower
rosy gilia, budding
basalt columns
white sand-verbena, budding
thread-leaf phacelia
lemon scurf-pea leaves
showy phlox
antelope bitter-brush flowers
stalked-pod milk-vetch, budding
gray cryptantha, budding

Basalt Pillars (Grant County)

woolly-pod milk-vetch
low pussy-toes (female flowers)
sunset clouds
buckwheat milk-vetch
thyme-leaf buckwheat
desert yellow daisies/fleabane
granite prickly-phlox leaves
yellow-bellied marmot
sagebrush dandelion & scabland buckwheat
scabland buckwheat leaves (and last year's flower stalks)
annual agoseris
cryptantha
long-beaked fiddle-mustard
rosy gilia
fennel-leaf spring-parsley
panicled death-camas
bugloss fiddleneck

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