Finley Wildlife Refuge--- plant list

 

                There is a lovely peacefulness in a botanizing hike. The mileage is less, the stops more frequent, the pace slower as we watch for bright spots in the deep green woods and fields. Mid-May is the perfect time for late spring flowers in the Willamette Valley, so we returned to Finley Wildlife Refuge again this weekend, this time with the books. We know most of the flowers and where we will find some specific old friends, but there are always a few that need to be teased out. Mark, long ago, discovered the two best ways to increase the count: pay attention to those tiny little white flowers and become familiar with the different varieties of some common species. He was trying to work on his checkermallows today.  We are still a little confused.

Woodpecker Loop to Mill Hill Plant List:

English Daisy

Hawthorne—not native (thorns!!)

Dandelion

Poverty Clover

Field Madder

Shining Geranium

Native Blackberry

Yellow Avens

Spring Beauty

Fringe Cup

Small flowered buttercup

Sweet Cicely

Trillium

Bird’s foot buttercup

Camus

Cleavers

Mariposa Lily

Cow Parsnip

Hop Clover

Iris

Wild Rose

Red Lotus

Sheep’s Sorrel

Parsley Leaved Lovage

Strawberry

Rose Checkermallow

Speedwell

Buckthorn

Stinky Bob

Nemophilia (small)

Columbine

Prairie Star

Western Starflower

Gorse

Larkspur

Footsteps of Spring

Yellow Paintbrush

Waterleaf  (there were two)

Thinmbleberry

Bleeding Heart

Scarlet Pimpernel

Shasta Daisy

Clover

Blue Eyed Grass

Serviceberry

False Dandelion

 

Meadows by the road:

Popcorn Flower

Monkeyflower

Lomaium Nudicalum

Another checkermallow, bigger and paler

Flax

Cinquefoil

Madrone

Wild cucumber

White Lupine

White Larkspur

Field Bindweed

Bittercress