Our 2021 wildflower year was an interesting one. We took a handful of wildflower specific hikes in Spring but drought conditions contributed to a shorter wildflower season. We also spent a fair amount of time in the drier central and eastern parts of Oregon where the flowers tend to be sparser but also offers a different mix of species. We have made every effort to identify the flowers as best as possible but are by no means “experts” in any way. With that in mind any help in correctly identifying any of the flowers pictured is more than welcome.
The honor of first flower we spotted on a hike this year goes to Skunk Cabbage near the North Fork Nehalem River in February.
The last flower we saw was the non-native tansy ragwort at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area in November.
In between and in no particular order here are most of the others we were fortunate enough to see.
A delphinium
Red stem storksbill surrounding a lomatium.
A “nettle” of some sort at South Slough Estuary.
A treefoil.
A vetch
An allium on Ninemile Ridge.
Asters, fleabanes and similar flowers remain a mystery so here are some of these types spotted throughout the year.
This may be Eaton’s aster along the Deschutes River.
Purple cushion fleabane
Possibly showy fleabane, August-Steens Mountain Wilderness.
Showy townsendia
Anemonastrum deltoideum -Columbian windflower
Anemonoides oregana – Oregon anemone
Arnica
The small white flowers are miterworts while I believe the yellow is an arnica.
Avens
We believe this is ball head sandwort
Ballhead waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Balloon pod milk vetch
A milk-vetch, possibly Yakima
A balsamroot at Lyle Cherry Orchard
A balsamroot at Columbia Hills State Park
Hoary balsamroot on Ninemile Ridge
We think these are mules ears along the Malhuer River Trail
Baneberry
Beargrass, admittedly not the nicest specimen but this one stood out as the only still blooming stalk we saw on our hike in the Indian Heaven Wilderness on 9/5/2021.
Penstemons and beardstongue
Yarrow
Big-head clover
Big-seed lomatium surrounded by parsley.
A bindweed
Bistort
Bitter cherry
Bitterbrush
Blackberry
The only blanket flower with any petals left.
Bleeding heart
Blue dicks?
Might be ookow or blue dicks?
Large-flower triteliea
White triteliea
Henderson’s stars
Blue mountain prairie clover
Blue-bells of Scotland
Blue-eyed Mary, slender phlox, and elegant mariposa lilies.
A phlox
A phlox
Phlox
A phlox
Sub-alpine mariposa lily
Tolmie’s mariposa lily
Sagebrush mariposa lily
Sand lily
Glacier lilies
Fawn lilies
Washington lily
Yellow bell lilies
Blurry photo but the only tiger lily we came across in 2021.
Chocolate lily
Water lily
Bog orchid
Phantom orchid
Lousewort
Brass buttons (non-native) along the coast near Fivemile Point.
Alpine buckwheat
A buckwheat
A buckwheat
Another buckwheat
Sulfur? buckwheat
More buckwheat
Western snakeroot
Buttercups
Pearly everlasting
A mustard? along the John Day River
California corn lilies
False hellebore
Death camas
Mountain death camas
Candy sticks
Candy flower
Catchfly
Chamomile (non-native)
Checkermallows and/or checkerblooms:
Chicory (non-native)
Chokecherry
A cinquefoil?
Slender cinquefoil
Sticky cinquefoil
Lassen clarkia?
Elkhorn clarkia aka Ragged robin
Clarkias with an out of focus madia
Common madia
Clover
A clover (non-native)
Red clover
Coastal manroot
Coltsfoot
Columbine
Coneflower
A currant
Also a currant
Daggerpod
Dandelions in the midst of mahala mat
Sagebrush false dandelion
Deadly nightshade
Diffuse evening primrose
Hooker’s evening primrose
A primrose
Dusty maiden
Dwarf aplinegold
Elegant brodiaea
Elephants head
Fairy bells
Fairy slippers
False lily of the valley and youth-on-age
False solomonseal
Plummed solomonseal
Star flower solomonseal
Starflower
False sunflowers
Fiddleneck
Fireweed
Flower near Illahe Lodge on the Rogue River Trail
Fringecup
Fuller’s teasel
A gentian
Gentians in the Steens Mountain Wilderness
Purple sticky geranium
Ghost pipe
Giant white wakerobbin
Trillium
Gold stars
Goldenrod
Gooseberry
Grand collomia
Grass of parnassus
Grass widows
Paintbrushes:
Groundsel?
Gumweed? July, Willapa Bay
Also a gumweed? Sept, Deschutes River
Hardhack aka Douglas spirea
Hawksbeard
Heart leaved bittercress
Heuchera cylindrica -roundleaf allumroot
Orange honeysuckle
Houndstongue
Also a houndstongue I think.
Evergreen huckleberry
Hyssop
Wild iris
Jacobs ladder
Western Jacobs ladder
Jessica sticktight
Largeleaf sandwort
Larkspur
Lewis flax
Pale flax
Lupines
Sabin’s lupine
Manzanita
Marshall’s saxifrage
A saxifrage?
Saxifrage?
Mock orange
A monkeyflower
A monkeyflower
Pink monkeyflower
Monkshood
Moth mullien
Mountain bluebills
Tall bluebills
Mountain coyote mint
Mountain heather
Very sad looking mountain lady slippers
Naked broomrape
Northern bedstraw
Nuttal’s linanthus
Old man’s whiskers
Orange agoseris
Orange jewelweed
Oregon grape
Oregon sunshine
Daisies
Pacific coralroot
Spotted coralroot
Striped coralroot
Pinedrops
Two kinds of parsley
Partridgefoot
A pea?
A pea?
Pea (non-native)
Pennycress
Plectritis
Popcorn flower
Poppies
Poppy
Prince’s pine
Purple deadnettle
Purple oyster
Salsify
Pussy toes
Pussy paws?
Queen’s cup
Rangers buttons
Red osier dogwood
Rhododendron
Rockfringe willowherb
Rough eyelashweed
Bunchberry
Salal
Salmonberry
Service berry
Scarlet gilia
Sea thrift
Self heal
Shooting stars
Showy milkweed
Sicklepod rockcress
Silky phacelia
Silverleaf phacelia
Threadleaf phacelia
Snow queen
Wallflower
Spreading dogbane
Sticky starwort?
Stonecrop
Strawberry
Swamp onion
Tapertip onion?
An onion
Tailed kittentails
Tassel-flowered bricklelbush – Favoite name of the year.
Thimbleberry
Thistle and thistle like flowers
Three-leaf lewisia
Threeleaf goldthreads
Twinberry honeysuckle
Twinflower
Twisted stalk
Toothwort
Valerian
Vaetch’s blazingstar
A violet
A violet
Wapato
Western clematis
Western meadowrue
Western stoneseed
Western pasque flower (seed head)
White stemmed frasera shortly before blooming.
Wild ginger
Rose
Roses
Wintergreen
Woodland stars
Below are a flowers that we’ve not been able to even come up with guesses on.
May 29th, Alder Springs Trail
May 29th, Alder Springs Trail
May 30th, Cottonwood Canyon State Park
May 30th, Cottonwood Canyon State Park
June 14th, North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
August 29th, Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument near the Norway Pass Trailhead.
September 5th, Indian Heaven Wilderness along Falls Creek.
September 13th, Deschutes River
I apologize for the plethora of pictures but if you’ve gotten this far (without skipping) congratulations and Happy Trails regardless!
wanderingyuncks 
2 replies on “2021 Flower Gallery”
[…] we see and have made our best efforts (guesses), but as with our attempted id of wildflowers (post) any help and or corrections is appreciated. With that here is a collection of the rest of the […]
In the ‘no clue’ section, the Aug 29th pink fellow looks like a Dianthus, probably a Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William), a naturalized garden escapee. I have seen quite of few of them in the Rockies.
Very nice pictures of both flora and fauna — great for people reminding themselves of what they’ve seen and what they haven’t. And fun for readers to check ids and propose missing/alternative ones.