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Meadows

Plant Database
a bee on a lavender flower, flowers are arranged in an umbel on short stalks that emerge from a central core.
Tapertip Allium
Allium acuminatum
curled flower with white hairs and orange petals
Menzies’ Fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
whole columbine plant with red flowers rising above foliage
Red Columbine
Aquilegia formosa
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Crown Brodiaea
Brodiaea coronaria
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
a field of camas mixed with grasses
Common Camas
Camassia quamash
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
a patch of fireweed with spires of purple flowers that taper to a point atop green spears of small lance shaped leaves
Fireweed
Chamerion angustifolium
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
bluish green dissected foliage topped with yellow disk and ray flowers
Oregon Sunshine
Eriophyllum lanatum
Nodding yellow lilies with broad grass-like basal foliage, similar to fawn lily.
Glacier-Lily
Erythronium grandiflorum
Three pink nodding flowers with mottled lance shaped basal leaves
Pink Fawn-Lily
Erythronium revolutum
up close photo of bright orange flowers
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
pinkish purple 5-petaled flowers
Oregon Geranium
Geranium oreganum
a small round blue flower called bluehead gillia
Globe Gilia
Gilia capitata
Stem with yellow flowers and poofy seed head
Meadow Hawkweed
Hieracium pratense or caespitosum or Pilosella caespitosa
a patch of meadow barley with reddish brown inflorescences
Meadow Barley
Hordeum brachyantherum
White petaled iris flowers with yellow throats and reddish brown veins.
Yellowleaf Iris
Iris chrysophylla
purple iris flowers with yellow and white center veins
Douglas Iris
Iris douglasiana
Single flower with white petals and yellow center
Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
the ornamemtal orange tiger lily flower with reddish brown freckles
Columbia Lily
Lilium columbianum
field of annual ryegrass planted as cover crop between rows of harvested stalks
Annual Ryegrass
Lolium multiflorum
the large palmate leaves and purple to white flowers of large leaf lupine
Bigleaf Lupine
Lupinus polyphyllus
Tall spiky plant with spiky leaves on spiky stem
Scotch Thistle
Onopordum acanthium
Tubular purple flowers
Cascade Penstemon
Penstemon serrulatus
a characteristic carrot family umbel of small white flowers with an orange and black butterfly visitor
Oregon Yampah
Perideridea oregana
umbel of small white carrot family flowers
Gairdner’s Yampah
Perideridia gairdneri
Blue Elderberry Sambucus caerulea Medium Tree with long green opposite leaves
Red Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
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