2017 is my year of wildflower discovery in Portland and surroundings. The Oregon Flora Project has just released an app, A Guide to the Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Vines of Oregon. So here goes, a test with some recent sightings, from Powell Butte,
Cooper Mountain and elsewhere.
Cooper Mountain and elsewhere.
Centaurium erythraea Common centaury; Powell Butte
DYC* with Cinnabar Moth caterpillars?; Powell Butte
Possibly a Vaccinium, wasn't able to key out with any confidence.
Powell Butte
Hypericum formosum St. John's wort; Powell Butte
Brodiaea coronaria Crown brodiaea;
Cooper Mountain
Lilium columbianum Columbia Lily;
Cooper Mountain
Rosa pisocarpa Cluster rose;
Cooper Mountain
Clarkia is one of my favorite Calif. genera, so delicate and pink. These are C. amoena, Farewell to Spring.
Wonderful to see it in proliferation, all through the lower
meadow at Cooper Mountain.
And, a ghostly larkspur from another place altogether.
*DYC: damn yellow composite i.e. one of the many yellow daisy-ish flowers I couldn't definitively key out.