My Wildflower Collection - History

My Wildflower Collection
History - new species added, additional photographs added to existing species
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There are currently 584 species represented in the main table.

• 2025
• October 10 - Oregon Coast 
• Rosa rugosa - new photo - Rugosa rose hips
• Baccharis pilularis - new photo - Coyote bush seed plumes
• August 4 - Marys Peak - Benton County, Oregon (SW of Philomath)
• Apocynum androsaemifolium - new photo - Spreading Dogbane
• Arnice lanceolata - new species - Lanceleaf Arnica
• Anaphalis margaritacea - new photo - Pearly Everlasting
• Achillea millefolium - new photo - Yarrow
• Chamaenerion angustifolium - new photo - Fireweed
• Dianthus armeria - new species - Deptford pink
• Holodiscus discolor - new photo - Oceanspray
• Madia glomerata - new species - Mountain Tarweed
• Spergularia rubra - new species - Red Sandspurry
• July 15 - Tillamook Forest Center, Kilchis Point
• Anaphalis margaritace - new photo - Pearly Everlasting
• Chamaenerion angustifolium - new photo - Fireweed
• Dolichousnea longissima - new species, new family, new order, new class, new division, new kingdom - with this entry from the Fungi kingdom, the collection now includes non-vascular plants
• Gaultheria shallon - new photos - Salal
• Galium tricornutum - new species - corn cleavers
• Rubus laciniatus - new photos - Cutleaf Blackberry
• Symphoricarpos albus - new photos - Common Snowberry (adding flower picture to previous berry pic)
• Spiraea douglasii - new photos - Rose Spirea (I like that name better than 'hardtack')
• Sidalcea hirtipes - new photos - Hairy-stemmed Checkermallow
• Salicornia pacifica - new species - Pickleweed - an interesting halophyte growing in an estuary adjoining Tillamook Bay
• Sambucus racemosa - new photo - Red Elderberry
• Vaccinium parvifolium - new photo - Red Huckleberry - still waiting to find one in bloom (not happening in July)
• July 14 - Hillsboro, OR
• Pseudognaphalium stramineum - new species - Cottonbatting plant
• June 23-25, Cannon Beach, Rockaway
• Aruncus dioicus - new photos - Goatsbeard
• Angelica lucida - new species - Sea Watch
• Equisetum telmateia - new species, genus, family - Great Horsetail
• Lysichiton americanus - new photos - Skunk Cabbage
• Lonicera involucrata - new photos - Twin Berry Honeysuckle
• Marah oregana - new photos - Coastal Manroot, Western Cucumber (inedible, possibly toxic)
• Polypodium scouleri - new species - Leathery Polypody
• Rosa gymnocarpa - new species - Bald-hip Rose
• Rosa rugosa - new species - Rugosa Rose
• Rhododendron macrophyllum - new species - Pacific Rhododendron
• Sambucus racemosa - new photos - Red Elderberry
• Vaccinium parvifolium - new photos - Red Huckleberry
• June 3-8, Skamokawa Vista Park with side trips to Long Beach and Astoria
• Circaea alipna - new species - Small Enchanter's Nightshade (very very small, not a nightshade, not enchanting...)
• Cascadia nuttallii - new species - Nuttall's Saxifrage, growing in a vertical rock seep at Pebble Beach.
• Cornus sericea - new photos - Red Osier dogwood
• Claytonia sibirica - new species - Candy Flower
• Digitalis purpurea - new photos - Foxglove (which, by the way, is not native to the Western Hemisphere)
• Geranium dissectum - new species - Cut-leaved Geranium - weed in cranberry bog
• Galium palustre - new species - Common Marsh Bedstraw
• Hieracium albiflorum - new species - White Hawkweed
• Heracleum maximum - new photos - Cow Parsnip
• Lupinus littoralis - new species - Seashore Lupine
• Myosotis discolor - new species - Changing Forget-Me-Not
• Montia parvifolia - new species - Small-leaved Blinks, Little-leaf Montia (the previous Montia parvifolia in the collection was clearly mis-identified and has been removed)
• Physocarpus capitatus - new species - Pacific Ninebark
• Phacelia nemoralis - new species - Shade Phacelia
• Rubus parviflorus - new photos - Thimbleberry
• Rubus spactabilis - new photos - Salmonberry
• Scrophularia californica - new species - California figwort, California bee plant
• Stachys mexicana - new photos - Coast Hedgenettle
• Tolmiea Menziesii - new photos - piggyback plant
• April 28 - May 4, Upper and Lower Table Rock, Cascade Siskiyou National Monument, Crater Lake, Rough and Ready Botanical Wayside
• Arabis aculeolata - new species - Waldo Rockcress
• Amelanchier alnifolia - new photos - Western Serviceberry
• Allium amplectens - new species - Narrow Leaf Onion
• Arnica cordifolia - new species - Heartleaf Arnica
• Allium falcifolium - new species - Coast Flatstem Onion
• Acer glabrum - new species - Rocky Mountain Maple
• Arbutus menziesii - new photos - Pacific Madrone
• Amsinckia menziesii - new photos - common fiddleneck
• Arctostaphylos nevadensis - new species - pinemat manzanita
• Arctostaphylos patula - new species - greenleaf manzanita
• Arctostaphylos viscida - new species - whiteleaf manzanita
• Berberis aquifolium - new photo - Oregon Grape
• Balsamorhiza deltoidea - new species - Deltoid Balsam Root
• Cerastium arvense - new photos - Field Chickweed
• Calypso bulbosa - new photos - Calypso Orchid, Fairy Slipper
• Ceanothus cuneatus - new photo - Buckbrush
• Collinsia grandiflora - new species - Giant Blue-eyed Mary
• Camassia leichtlinii - new species - Great Camas
• Collinsia linearis - new species - Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Mary
• Claytonia parviflora - new species - Streambank Spring Beauty
• Ceanothus prostrata - new species - Mahala Mat
• Corallorhiza striata - new species - Striped Coral-root
• Calochortus tolmiei - new species - Cat's Ear
• Comandra umbellata - new photos - Bastard Toadflax
• Delphinium decorum - new species - Coastal Larkspur
• Dicentra formosa - new photos - Pacific Bleeding Heart
• Delphinium nuttallianum - new species - Upland Larkspur
• Erythronium hendersonii - new species - Henderson's Fawn Lily
• Erythronium klamathense - new species - Klamath Fawn Lily
• Fragaria vesca - new photos - wild strawberry
• Iris chrysophylla - new species - Yellowleaf Iris
• Leptosiphon bicolor - new photos - true Babystars
• Lasthenia californica - new species - California Goldfields
• Limnanthes floccosa ssp pumilia - new species, new family - threatened species Dwarf Wooly Meadowfoam
• Lysimachia latifolia - new photos - Pacific Starflower
• Lomatium nudicaule - new photos - Barestem Biscuitroot
• Lomatium utriculatum - new species - Desert Parsley
• Micropus californicus - new species - Cottonweed
• Erythranthe gutata - new photos - Common Monkeyflower
• Marah oregana - new photo - Coastal Manroot
• Maianthemum racemosum - new photo - Plumed Solomon's Seal
• Plectritis congesta - new photo - Shortspur Seablush
• Phacelia corymbosa - new species - Serpentine Phacelia
• Potentilla daucifolia - new species - Carrotleaf Horkelia
• Pedicularis densiflora - new photo - Indian Warrior Lousewort
• Plectritis macrocera - new species - Longhorn Seablush
• Paxistima myrsinites - new species - Oregon Boxwood
• Plagiobothrys nothofulvus - new species - Rusty Popcornflower
• Phlox speciosa - new species - Showy Phloxs
• Ribes sanguineum - new photo - Red-flowering Currant
• Sanicula crassicaulis - new species - Pacific Sanicle
• Silene greenei - new species - Bell Catchfly
• Trifolium depauperatum - new species - Cowbag Clover
  
• Toxicodendron diversilobum - new species - Western Poison Oak
• Toxicoscordion mircanthum - new species - Smallflower Death Camas
• Trifolium variegatum - new species - White-tip Clover
• Toxicoscordion venenosum - new photos - Meadow Death Camas
• Trifolium willdenovii - new species - Tomcat Clover
• Valarianella radiata - new species - Common Cornsalad
• Whipplea modesta - new species - Common Whipplea
• March 5
• Adelina grandis - new photos of emerging growth - Hound's Tongue

• 2024
  • November 13
  • Geranium robertianum - new photos - stinky bob
  • October 20
  • Iris pseudacorus - new species - yellow flag (found in archive from March, 2024)
  • October 16, Carson, WA
  • Hypericum perforatum - new photos - Klamath weed, common hypericum
  • Lathyrus latifolius - new photo - broad-leaved sweet pea
  • Trifolium pratense - new species - red clover
  • Delphinium trolliifolium - new species - originally photographed in April, discovered in archives this week - Columbian larkspur
  • September 28, Portland, OR
  • Crataegus monogyna - new species - common hawthorn
  • September 14, 15, Walla Walla, WA, Minam, OR
  • Centaurea diffusa - new species - White Knapweed (also available in pink...)
  • Centaurea solstitialis - new species - Star Thistle
  • Helianthus annuus - new photos - Common Sunflower
  • September 6, Hillsboro, Oregon
  • Sonchus asper - new photos - Sow's thistle
  • September 2, Hillsboro, Oregon
  • Persicaria maculosa - new species - spotted ladysthumb
  • Rubus laciniatus - new photos - ripe fruit added
    
  • August 22, Hillsboro, OR - around the edges of the parking lot at the Gordon Faber Sports Complex
  • Helianthus annuus - new species - common sunflower
  • Helianthus tuberosus - new species - Jerusalem Artichoke
    
  • Madia sativa - new photos - Coast Tarweed
  • Epilobium densiflorum - new species - Denseflower Willowherb
  • Acmispon americanus - new photos - Spanish clover
  • Persicaria hydropiper - new species - water-pepper (previously identified as P. maculosa)
    
  • Cichorium intybus - new photos - Chickory
  • August 20, Turner, OR
  • Sonchus asper - new species - in flowerbed while waiting in line at Enchanted Forest with grandkids
  • August 13, Hillsboro, OR
  • Aponogeton distachyos - new species - growing in front yard pond
  • August 10 - Hillsboro, Astoria
  • Stachys mexicana - new species - coast hedgenettle (found in archives from 06/2021) near Young's River Falls
    
  • Rubus laciniatus - new species - flower photo from archives, 06/2021, leaves & unripe fruit in my backyard last week
  • Rubus spectabilis - new photos - salmon berry fruit from archives 06/2021 - near Yount's River Galls
    
  • July 29 - Hillsboro, OR
    
  • Acmispon americanus - new species - Spanish Clover
  • Daucus carota - new species - Queen Anne's Lace
  • Prunus spinosa - new species - Blackthorn
  • Madia sativa - new species - Coast Tarweed
  • July 21 - Hillsboro, OR
    
  • Euphorbia maculata - new species - Milky Spurge
  • Egeria densa - new species - Brazilian waterweed
  • July 20 - Hllsboro, OR
    
  • Dipsacus fulloinum - new photos - Teasel
  • July 18 - Crater Lake, Siskiyou Summit Rd
  • Phacelia mutabilis - new species - Mutable phacelia
  • Calyptridium monospermum - new species - One seeded Pussypaws
  • Calyptridium umbellatum - new species
  • Rorippa sinuata - new species
  • Koenigia davisiae - new species - Davis' Knotweed
  • Eriogonum umbellatum - new photos - Sulphur Buckwheat
  • Eriogonum marifolium - new species
  • Eriogonum diclinum - new species - Jaynes Canyoun buckwheat
  • Eriogonum nudum - new species - Barestem Wild Buckwheat
  • Valeriana sitchensis - new species - Sitka Valerian
  • Erythranthe lewisii - new species - Lewis' Monkeyflower
  • Phlox diffusa - new photos - spreading phlox
  • Ipomopsis aggregata - new photos - Skyrocket
  • Monardella odoratissima - new photos - Mountain Coyote Mint
  • Epilobium ciliatum - new photos - Fringed epilobium
  • Gayophytum humile - new species - Dwarf Groundsmoke
  • Platanthera dilata - new photos - White Bog Orchid
  • Platanthera stricta - new species - slender bog orchid
  • Corallorhiza maculata - new photo - Spotted Coralroot
  • Penstemon rydbergii - new species - Rydberg's Penstemon
  • Penstemon rupicola - new species - Cliff Beardtongue
  • Veronica wormskjoldii - new species - Alpine Speedwell
  • Nothochelone nemorosa - new species - Woodland Beardtongue
  • Castilleja arachnoidea - new species - cobwebby paintbrush
  • Pedicularis groenlandica - new photos - Elephant's Head
  • Orthocarpus cuspidatus - new species - Toothed Owl's Clover
  • Veratrum Californicum - new species - California corn lily
  • Angelica arguta - new species - Lyall's angelica
  • Lilium columbianum - new photos - Columbia Lily
  • Sidalcea oregana - new species - Oregon Checker-mallow
  • Boykinia major - new species -  Mountain Brookfoam
  • Triantha occidentalis - new species - Western False Asphodel
  • Pulsatilla occidentalis - new species - Western Pasque Flower
  • Aconitum columbianum - new species - Columbian Monkshood
  • Delphinium glaucum - new species - Mountain Larkspur
  • Lupinus lepidus - new species - Pacific Lupine
  • Lupinus brewerii - new species - Brewer's Lupine
  • Lupinus leucophyllus - new species - Velvet Lupine
  • Hosackia crassifolia - new photos - Deervetch
  • Agoseris aurantiaca - new species - Orange Agoseris
  • Eriophyllum lanatum - new species - Oregon Sunshine
  • Helenium bigelovii - new species - Bigelow's Sneezeweed
  • Solidago lepida - new species - Elegant Goldenrod
  • Sorbus scopulina - new species - Cascade Mountain Ash
  • Spiraea splendens - new photo - Rosy Spirea
  • Rubus lasiococcus - new species - Dwarf Bramble
  • Holodiscus discolor - new photos - Ocean Spray
  • Sambucus cerulea - new species - Blue Elderberry
  • Chimaphila umbellata - new photos - Pipsissewa
  • Arbutus menziesii - new photos - Pacific Madrone
  • Potentilla gracilis - new photos - Slender Cinquefoil
  • July 13- Hillsboro, OR
    
  • Mycelis muralis - new species - wall lettuce
  • July 10 - Initial Species Load Completed - My wildflower collection