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May 22, 2025: Marcellus Shrub-Steppe NAP & Crab Creek (Adams & Lincoln Counties, Washington)

Marcellus Shrub-Steppe Natural Area Preserve

wildflowers
upland larkspur
white plectritis
annual agoseris
cushion fleabane
western groundsel
meadow saxifrage
buckwheat milk-vetch
hawksbeard, budding
elkhorn clarkia
woolly plantain
Thompson's paintbrush
hairy paintbrush
California hesperochiron, going to seed
big-seed biscuitroot
juvenile horned lark
ringlet butterfly on yarrow buds
Geyer's onions
hairy purslane speedwell
tufted fox-tail grass
late-blooming pungent desert parsley
wooly-heads
popcorn-flower
drying vernal pool
moss
false agoseris (sagebrush dandelion)
panicled death-camas
arnica
field milk-vetch
California hesperochiron (meadow stars)
Great Basin desert parsley
shaggy fleabane
bractless parsnip-flower buckwheat
bitterroot
long-leaf phlox
two-tailed swallowtail butterfly on arrow-leaf balsamroot
desert yellow daisies/fleabane
navarretia & least mouse-tail
Kellogg's knotweed
Geyer's onions
Geyer's onions
prairie stars
white blue flax
blue flax

Crab Creek

chokecherry
cliffs above Crab Creek
madwort
stinging nettle flowers
slender rock-cress
arrow-leaf balsamroot
round-leaf alumroot
clouds and sagebrush hills
serrated ragwort (sawtooth groundsel), budding
black hawthorn, going to seed
valley cinquefoil
western blue flag iris
Washington Jacob's-ladder
bright green plants in Crab Creek
midge galls on golden currant leaf
Washington Jacob's-ladder
Columbia puccoon
velvet lupine
blue flax
bractless parsnip-flower buckwheat
talus & sagebrush
arrow-leaf balsamroot & sagebrush
miner's-lettuce
bugloss fiddleneck
sulphur lupine
bitterroot
gray horse-brush, budding
Crab Creek
cushion fleabane
Geyer's onions
Milbert's tortoiseshell butterfly on Geyer's onion
least mouse-tail
line-leaf montia
heart-leaf buckwheat, budding
fern-leaf desert parsley, going to seed
Oregon sunshine

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