Silver Star Flowers 7-27-08

[Stevefromdodge]

Here's a not so quick view at the flowers currently blooming on Silver Star. The main trip report is posted at this link: http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... ?f=8&t=500

I haven't had time to do any research yet, so any IDs or corrections are appreciated.

#1 - ???




#2 - ???


#3 - Foxglove


#4 - Salal


#5 - Inside Out Flower




Devil's Club berries


#6 - Thimble Berries


#7 - ???


#8 - Some kind of Arnica, I think


#9 - Bunchberries


#10 - Fireweed


#11 - Gray's Loveage?


#12 - ??? (Not sure if these are the same or not)




#13 - Lupine (I'm not sure which kind)


#14 - Paintbrush (These might be different subspecies)




#15 - ???


#16 - Tiger Lily




#17 - Columbine




#18 - Oregon Iris


#19 - Nootka Rose


#20 - Wild Strawberry


#21 - Bead Lily


#22 - Stream Violet


#23 - Star Flowered Solomon's Seal


#24 - Bleeding Heart


#25 - Avalanche Lily




#26 - Trillium (wow this one's old)


#27 - Salmonberry


#28 - Sitka Valerian




#29 - ???


#30 - Golden Pea




#31 - ??? - These guys had flowers like lupine, but leaves like vetch




#32 - Western Bistort




#33 - Star Tulip


#34 - Larkspur (the blue stuff)


#35 - ???




#36 - ???


#37 - Yarrow


#38 - Some kind of Desert Parsley?




#39 - The foliage is heather, the flowers are something else




#40 - Hairbells




#41 - Cardwell's Penstemon


#42 - A tiny violet. I think they're too small to be Stream Violets.


#43 - Goat's Beard?


#44 - ???




#45 - Some kind of fleabane?




#46 - False Solomon's Seal


#47 - Some kind of flycatcher??




#48 - ???


#49 - Service Berry


#50 - Phlox (not sure what kind)


#51 - Ballhead Waterleaf? (Really too far gone to count)


#52 - Stonecrop




#53 - White Iris (might just be a variation of the other one)


#54 - A bush


#55 - Woolly Sunflower


#56 - ???


#57 - ???




#58 - Perhaps another flebane? The leaves are different than the first.

[adamschneider]

Did you take the southern route? I didn't see any bunchberry or salal last week.

#1 is probably false bugbane.

#2 is Mexican hedge nettle.

#5 is foamflower.

#7 looks like sickle-top lousewort.

#11 is, I think, cow parsnip, which is generally a much larger plant than Gray's lovage.

#28 is Sitka valerian.

#29 is Sitka mountain ash.

#30 is golden pea/goldenbanner.

#31 is Western sweet-vetch.

#33 I'd call subalpine mariposa lily or cat's ear, but it has many names.

#35 is coiled-beak lousewort.

#36 is wallflower.

#38 is, yes, some kind of desert parsley (lomatium).

#39 is Columbia lewisia.

#40 is harebells (not "hairbells"!).

#43 does indeed look like goat's beard, but I never know for sure with those white fuzzy ones.

#44 is spiraea.

#47: I think you mean "catchfly." Probably Parry's/white catchfly.

#48 is orange hawkweed.

#51 is definitely in the waterleaf family, but I'd say more likely silverleaf phacelia.

#56 is nodding onion.

#57 is explorer's gentian.

[Stevefromdodge]

Thanks for all your help Adam!

I thought they were harebells, but the FS sign said hairbells. Of course, another sign ten feet away said it was only 1/2 mile from the trailhead to the summit!

[adamschneider]

Of course, another sign ten feet away said it was only 1/2 mile from the trailhead to the summit!

Yeah, that sign was there last time I was there too, two years ago. Based on all of its mileages, it's clearly supposed to be up on top somewhere:

[Stevefromdodge]

Yeah, I agree.

I suppose the Pyrmid Trail must go somewhere near Pyrmid Rock. Sheesh. How hard is it to run a spell check?

[adamschneider]

From the FS's "Silver Star Trails" map, it seems 180F is now called the Grouse Creek Vista (or "just "Grouse Vista") trail.

I think I saw a grouse up there, by the way.... some really fat bird flew away from me before I could get my camera out.