« 2025-06 Southeastern Oregon

June 10, 2025: Silvies Valley & Harney Basin (Harney County, Oregon)

Silvies Valley & U.S. 395

lupine
cushion buckwheat (and a tiny bee)
granite prickly-phlox
dwarf purple monkeyflower
thread-leaf fleabane
antelope bitter-brush
California hesperochiron (meadow stars)
Cusick's clover
western groundsel
hairy paintbrush
Cusick's clover
buckwheat (which?)
parrot-head (hairy) paintbrush
long-leaf phlox
Oregon checker-mallow
Hood's phlox
brown-headed cowbirds
shaggy fleabane & sagebrush
groundsmoke
thread-stalk milk-vetch
showy penstemon
desert yellow daisies/fleabane
bushy bird's-beak
white-stem frasera
tansy-leaf evening-primrose
prairie smoke, going to seed
large-flowered cluster lily
Rydberg's penstemon
western columbine
Oregon sunshine
Menzies' catchfly
water montia
comb-leaf cinquefoil
long-stalk starwort
Oregon saxifrage
rosy pussy-toes
Brewer's navarretia
northern linanthus (?)
tall/pearly pussy-toes
Cusick's lupine
popcorn-flower (which?)
dusky horkelia
sticky geranium
taper-tip hawksbeard
curve-pod milk-vetch
parsnip-flower buckwheat
long-leaf fleabane
Owyhee ivesia
branching phacelia
yellow avens

OO Ranch Road & Malheur N.W.R.

sagebrush & junipers
woolly marbles
lupine
rough eyelash-weed
scabland fleabane
rock buckwheat
gray-green thistle
clustered broomrape
low sagebrush, flowering
narrow-leaf goldenweed, gone to seed
desert parsley (which?), going to seed
serrate balsamroot, going to seed
ran clouds & sagebrush
poverty-weed
Bach's calico-flower
cushion fleabane
lava asters
showy townsendia, gone to seed
western harvester ants
soft popcorn-flower
vernal pool owl's-clover
vernal pool owl's-clover, white-head navarretia, & poverty-weed
Rydberg's penstemon
white-head navarretia
vernal pool owl's-clover & soft popcorn-flower
lance-leaf goldenweed
black henbane
parrot-head (hairy) paintbrush
Rydberg's penstemon & shaggy fleabane
shad-scale salt-bush
greasewood
spiny hop-sage
bud sagebrush, after flowering
shaggy fleabane
mystery wetland plant
rain clouds and a salty pond
mare's eggs (cyanobacteria)
borax-weed (western niterwort)
Steens Mountain
Russian olive flowers
silverweed cinquefoil
salt marsh bird's-beak
Nevada blue-eyed-grass
edible valerian, going to seed
few-flowered shooting-star
common arrow-grass
broad-leaf pepper-weed, budding
salt marsh bird's-beak
yellow monkeyflower
Harney Lake

Saddle Butte

four-wing milk-vetch pods
white-stem globe-mallow
rain clouds & buttes
desert paintbrush
winter-fat
Douglas' pincushion
buckwheat (which?)
desert paintbrush & little-leaf horse-brush
little-leaf horse-brush
intermountain bedstraw
freckled milk-vetch
spiny horse-brush
Saddle Butte
sunset clouds & sagebrush
four pronghorn antelope

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