Weather: Partly cloudy with occational sprinkles. Light wind in the morning to moderate after lunch time. Temperatures in the low 50s.
Complete Plant List for the Crawford Oaks/Eightmile Creek portion of the Columbia Hills State Park.
* indicates a wildflower currently in bloom.
* Cheatgrass: Bromus tectorum
Bottlebrush Squirreltail: Elymus elymoides
Idaho Fescue: Festuca idahoensis
* Bulbous Bluegrass: Poa bulbosa
* Nevada Bluegrass: Poa secunda ssp. juncifolia
Sandberg's Bluegrass: Poa secunda ssp. secunda
Bluebunch Wheatgrass: Pseudoroegneria spicata
Medusahead: Taeniatherum caput-medusae
* Big-leaf Maple: Acer macrophyllum
Box Elder: Acer negundo
* Oregon White Oak: Quercus garryana var. garryana
Tapertip Onion: Allium accuminatum
Sagebrush Mariposa: Calochortus macrocarpus var. macrocarpus
* Bicolor Cluster Lily: Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii - Beginning to bloom.
* Panicle Deathcamas: Toxicoscordion paniculatum
Heartleaf Buckwheat: Eriogonum compositum var. compositum - In bud.
Tall Buckwheat: Eriogonum elatum
* Miner's Lettuce: Claytonia perfoliata ssp. intermontana
Jagged Chickweed: Holosteum umbellatum
* Common Chickweed: Stellaria media
* Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum
* Spring Whitlow-grass: Draba verna
* Tumblemustard: Sisymbrium altissimum
Fringepods: Thysanocarpus curvipes
Mock Orange: Philadelphus lewisii
* Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflorum
* Bittercherry: Prunus emarginata var. emarginata
* Columbia Gorge Lupine: Lupinus latifolius var. latifolius (formerly var. thompsonianus)
Velvet Lupine: Lupinus leucophyllus - In bud.
* Small-flowered Lupine: Lupinus micranthus (Some call this Lupinus bicolor.)
Alfalfa: Medicago sativa
* Burrowing Clover: Trifolium subterraneum
* Filaree: Erodium cicutarium
* Klickitat Desert Parsley: Lomatium klickitatense
* Barestem Desert Parsley: Lomatium nudicaule
* Nineleaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum var. triternatum
* Showy Phlox: Phlox speciosa
* Attenuate Paintbrush: Castilleja attenuata
* Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
* Manroot: Marah oreganus
Blue Elderberry: Sambucus cerulea
Common Snowberry: Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
* Long-spur Plectritis: Plectritis ciliosa
* White Plectritis: Plectritis macrocera
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium - In bud.
* Low Pussytoes: Antennaria dimorpha
* Carey's (Hybrid?) Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea
Western Hawsbeard: Crepis occidentalis
* Cushion Fleabane: Erigeron poliospermus
Blanketflower: Gaillardia aristata - In bud.
Columbia Goldenweed: Pyrrocoma carthamoides var. carthamoides