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Mount Pisgah Arboretum

Description

The annual Mount Pisgah Wildflower Festival, which is co-sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Oregon and Lane Community College, occurs this year on Sunday, May 20th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. In addition to extensive displays of Oregon's native and naturalized flowering plant species, there will be guided walks, children's activities, and food/craft vendors.

There are a number of very easy trails in the Arboretum area. Don't miss the easy Water Garden Trail for prime wildflower viewing. Some of the species that you can expect to see in the Arboretum include: Common Camas (Camassia quamash), Tall Larkspur (Delphinium trolliifolium), Hooker's Fairy Bells (Prosartes hookeri), Henderson's Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii), Western Sweet-Cicely (Osmorhiza occidentalis), Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum), Giant White Wakerobin (Trillium albidum), Oregon Fawn Lily (Erythronium oregonum), Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa), Stream Violet (Viola glabella), Western Meadowrue (Thalictrum occidentale), False Solomon's-Seal (Maianthemum racemosum), Star-Flowered Solomon's-Seal (Maianthemum stellatum), and Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes).

While the trail to the Mount Pisgah summit is more difficult, it is certainly worth the effort. Species which bloom along the trail and at the summit include: Western Buttercup (Ranunculus occidentalis), Oregon Iris (Iris tenax), Monkey Flower (Mimulus guttatus), Rose Checker-Mallow (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. virgata), Oregon Fawn Lily (Erythronium oregonum), Great Hound's-Tongue (Cynoglossum grande), Henderson's Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii), Spring Gold (Lomatium utriculatum), Oregon saxifrage (Saxifraga oregana), Large-flowered Nemophila (Nemophila menziesii), Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), and Small-Flowered Prairie Star (Lithophragma parviflora).

Trail information can be found here (for the Arboretum) or here (for Mount Pisgah proper).

For more information, visit the Mount Pisgah Arboretum or Friends of Buford Park web sites.

Directions

Take the first right after the Shell station onto Franklin Boulevard East. Pass Bring Recycling on your left, and in 0.5 mile turn left onto Seavey Loop Road. Proceed 2.2 miles across the Coast Fork of the Willamette River. Immediately after crossing the river, turn right and proceed into the Arboretum parking area. There is a $4 parking fee for the Howard Buford Recreation Area, which encompasses Mount Pisgah.

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Photo Gallery

Great Hound's Tongue near Mount Pisgah summit	Tall Larkspur at Mount Pisgah Arboretum	Candyflower at Mount Pisgah	Baby Blue Eyes, Mount Pisgah
Chocolate Lilies, Mount Pisgah	Oregon Iris along Mount Pisgah trail	Oregon Iris at Mount Pisgah Arboretum	Striped Coral Root at Mount Pisgah Arboretum
Rose Checker-Mallow at Mount Pisgah	Camas at Mount Pisgah Arboretum	Camas Meadow at Mount Pisgah Arboretum	Pink Sorrel at Mount Pisgah Arboretum
Fairy Bells at Mount Pisgah Arboretum	Cat's Ear Lily (Calochortus subalpinus)

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