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Whole yarrow plant with feathery leaves and flat white flower tops
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
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
a cluster of small white many-petaled disk and ray flowers with yellow centers
Pearly Everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea
whole columbine plant with red flowers rising above foliage
Red Columbine
Aquilegia formosa
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
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
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
a cluster of purple flowers, each with 6 petals, atop a leafless stalk
Ookow
Dichelostemma congestum
bluish green dissected foliage topped with yellow disk and ray flowers
Oregon Sunshine
Eriophyllum lanatum
an orangey red trumpet shaped flower with petals curving back
Scarlet Monkeyflower
Erythranthe cardinalis
a yellow flower with red dots in the center
Seep Monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata
Nodding yellow lilies with broad grass-like basal foliage, similar to fawn lily.
Glacier-Lily
Erythronium grandiflorum
Oregon Fawn Lily
Erythronium oreganum
up close photo of bright orange flowers
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
checkered yellow and brown/purple flowers nod downwards from gracefully curving stems.
Chocolate Lily
Fritillaria affinis
sunflower family yellow flower with brown center
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia aristata
a small round blue flower called bluehead gillia
Globe Gilia
Gilia capitata
an oceansprayshrub in bloom
Oceanspray
Holodiscus discolor
leaves and flower of waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
the ornamemtal orange tiger lily flower with reddish brown freckles
Columbia Lily
Lilium columbianum
the large palmate leaves and purple to white flowers of large leaf lupine
Bigleaf Lupine
Lupinus polyphyllus
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