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Wildflower Report for Spencer Butte

Location	Spencer Butte
Date	04/04/2007
Reporter	Rory Nichols
Comments	The following are at their peak: Oregon fawn lily (Erythronium oregonum), Nuttall's toothwort (Cardamine nuttalli var. nuttallii), bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis), western trillium (Trillium ovatum ssp. ovatum), & sessile trillium (Trillium albidum). Others in bloom: stream violet (Viola glabella), evergreen violet (Viola sempervirens), candyflower (Claytonia sibirica), large-flowered nemophila (Nemophila menziesii var. atomaria), and a couple of Oregon iris (Iris tenax). At the summit: Henderson's shooting star (Dodecatheon hendersonii), small-flowered blue-eyed mary (Collinsia parviflora), grass widow (Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii), bigleaf sandwort (Moehringia macrophylla), small-flowered prairie-star (Lithophragma parviflorum var. parviflorum), chickweed monkeyflower (Mimulus alsinoides), spring whitlow-grass (Draba verna), and spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum). Wholeleaf saxifrage (Saxifraga integrifolia) is in the very early stages of blooming near the summit. Peak bloom may be a couple of weeks away.
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Spencer Butte

04/04/2007

The following are at their peak: Oregon fawn lily (Erythronium oregonum), Nuttall's toothwort (Cardamine nuttalli var. nuttallii), bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa var. occidentalis), western trillium (Trillium ovatum ssp. ovatum), & sessile trillium (Trillium albidum).

Others in bloom: stream violet (Viola glabella), evergreen violet (Viola sempervirens), candyflower (Claytonia sibirica), large-flowered nemophila (Nemophila menziesii var. atomaria), and a couple of Oregon iris (Iris tenax).

At the summit: Henderson's shooting star (Dodecatheon hendersonii), small-flowered blue-eyed mary (Collinsia parviflora), grass widow (Olsynium douglasii var. douglasii), bigleaf sandwort (Moehringia macrophylla), small-flowered prairie-star (Lithophragma parviflorum var. parviflorum), chickweed monkeyflower (Mimulus alsinoides), spring whitlow-grass (Draba verna), and spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum).

Wholeleaf saxifrage (Saxifraga integrifolia) is in the very early stages of blooming near the summit. Peak bloom may be a couple of weeks away.

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