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Wildflower Report for Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area

Location	Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area
Date	05/10/2008
Reporter	Karen Phillips
E-mail	kmp_oregon@siskiyou.org
Comments	Sightings were all along Eight Dollar Road: some at Days Gulch Fen, some at the Eight Dollar Mountain Fen (boardwalk) and the rest spotted from the rad in between. Things are starting to bloom really nicely. Saw the following in bloom: Pinguicula vulgaris (Common Butterwort), Darlingtonia californica, Balsamorhiza settigera (which smells like Hershey's chocolate...), Viola lobata, V. hallii and V. cuneata, Calochortus tolmiei, C. uniflora and several hybrids of these two species, Lithosperma californicum, Platanthera sparsfolia, Allium falcifolium, Tritelia hyacinthoides (I think this is the species - they're just before the green bridge on the right of the road), Zigadenus venosus, a plant that I'm fairly certain is Camassia howellii, Western Azalea, Phlox speciosa, Arabis auculeolata, Phacelia corymbosa, Eriophyllum lanatum, Castilleja hispida ssp. brevilobata, Trientalis borealis. If you're interested in seeing low-elevation serpentine endemics in SW Oregon, they're coming on strong right now, and I don't think we've hit peak bloom yet!
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Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area

05/10/2008

Sightings were all along Eight Dollar Road: some at Days Gulch Fen, some at the Eight Dollar Mountain Fen (boardwalk) and the rest spotted from the rad in between. Things are starting to bloom really nicely. Saw the following in bloom: Pinguicula vulgaris (Common Butterwort), Darlingtonia californica, Balsamorhiza settigera (which smells like Hershey's chocolate...), Viola lobata, V. hallii and V. cuneata, Calochortus tolmiei, C. uniflora and several hybrids of these two species, Lithosperma californicum, Platanthera sparsfolia, Allium falcifolium, Tritelia hyacinthoides (I think this is the species - they're just before the green bridge on the right of the road), Zigadenus venosus, a plant that I'm fairly certain is Camassia howellii, Western Azalea, Phlox speciosa, Arabis auculeolata, Phacelia corymbosa, Eriophyllum lanatum, Castilleja hispida ssp. brevilobata, Trientalis borealis. If you're interested in seeing low-elevation serpentine endemics in SW Oregon, they're coming on strong right now, and I don't think we've hit peak bloom yet!

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