A collection of flora from the pacific wonderland.

Posts tagged “prineville

White Water Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis)

Twin Peaks Trail, Mill Creek Wilderness, Ochoco National Forest, OR, 6/2021.

This aquatic buttercup, which is native to most of Europe and western North America and North Africa, was new to us. (more…)


Rocky Mountain Iris (Iris missouriensis)

Bandit Springs Trail, Ochoco NF, OR 6/2023.

Our third Iris post, this Rocky Mountain Iris is found in wet pockets of Ponderosa Pine forests with drier summers.  In the PNW that means east of the cascades, (more…)


Brown’s Peony (Paeonia brownii)

Lookout Mountain Trail, Ochoco NF, OR 6/2023.

At last, thanks to this summer’s late thaw, we finally spotted Brown’s peony in bloom, a bit later than usual, in central Oregon’s Ochoco mountains. 
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