lots of Desert Parsley plants in bloom
a whole hillside of Goldstars (Crocidium multicaule)
Glacier Lily
Columbia kittentails, Synthyris missurica, an endemic plant to the Columbia River Gorge
Red flowering currant
even more Red Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum, the plant that paid for early botanist David Douglas's trips to the New World- America)
flowers & leaf buds of the Big Leaf Maple
Big leaf maple, native to the Pacific Northwest, has the largest maple leaves of any maple in the world.
Indian Celery, one of the many desert parsleys growing in the eastern half of the Gorge (Lomatium nudicaule- which means a Lomatium with a naked stem)
Pungent desert parsley
Balsamroot
Death camas (not the camas you want to eat!) Zigadenus paniculatus is the scientific name
more Death Camas
Prairie Star
Fiddleneck (Amsinckia sp.)
Fiddleneck
Wild cucumber (don't eat it, though- it's poisonous)
Wild Cucumber
more Prairie Stars
wild cucumber
wild cucumber tendrils
Bulb Grass, a non-native invasive grass
close up of the bulbs on Bulb Grass
poison oak, just leafing out
