| Location | Tom McCall Nature Preserve |
| Date | 03/22/2008 |
| Reporter | Brent Miller |
| Website/Photos | http://www.foliosus.com/ |
| Comments | The season is progressing nicely. Seen in bloom: * Grass widows -- Olsynium douglasii * Yellow bells -- Fritillaria pudica * Small-flowered prairie stars -- Lithophragma parviflorum * Northwestern saxifrage -- Saxifraga integrifolia * Western buttercup -- Ranunculus occidentalis * Glacier lily -- Erythronium grandiflorum * Oaks toothwort -- Cardamine pulcherrima * Salt and pepper -- Lomatium piperi * Columbia desert parsely -- Lomatium columbianum * Pungent desert parsley -- Lomatium grayi * Gold stars -- Crocidium multicaule * Small-flowered blue-eyed mary -- Collinsia parviflora The first of the balsam-root flower heads were also showing, although they're not yet ready to open. |
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| Tom McCall Nature Preserve |
| 03/22/2008 |
| Website/Photos  |
| The season is progressing nicely. Seen in bloom: * Grass widows -- Olsynium douglasii * Yellow bells -- Fritillaria pudica * Small-flowered prairie stars -- Lithophragma parviflorum * Northwestern saxifrage -- Saxifraga integrifolia * Western buttercup -- Ranunculus occidentalis * Glacier lily -- Erythronium grandiflorum * Oaks toothwort -- Cardamine pulcherrima * Salt and pepper -- Lomatium piperi * Columbia desert parsely -- Lomatium columbianum * Pungent desert parsley -- Lomatium grayi * Gold stars -- Crocidium multicaule * Small-flowered blue-eyed mary -- Collinsia parviflora The first of the balsam-root flower heads were also showing, although they're not yet ready to open. |
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