Ingalls Creek — Thursday, Jun. 8, 2023

Thanks WTA work crew for your great work on the trail!!

We (a fun group of 11 Mountaineers) went 6.7 miles up the creek and found 75 flowering plants (see Paul's full list below). There were lots of flower highlights: the beautiful mountain lady's slipper (about 3.3 miles in, photo 2), lots of Lyall's mariposa lilies (picture 3), yellow, orange, and red harsh paintbrush (picture 4, miles 3 and 4), fairly slipper orchids (miles 4 and 5), stream-bank arnica, (pink) spreading dogbane, Columbian lewisia (6.5 miles), fading lupine, chelan larkspur, and many, many more!  The video has some of the flowers, most with their names.


WILDFLOWERS IN BLOOM (75 species)
white (31)
common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
snowbrush (Ceanothus velutinus)
small-flowered prairie-star / woodland-star (Lithophragma parviflorum)
Lyall’s mariposa-lily (Calochortus lyallii)
thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
plumed Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
star-flowered Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
western serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
raceme pussytoes (Antennaria racemosa)
silver-leaf phacelia (Phacelia hastata)
bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata)
white-flowered hawkweed (Hieracium albiflorum)
big-leaf sandwort (Moehringia macrophylla)
Torrey’s cryptantha (Cryptantha torreyana)
panicled death-camas (Toxicoscordion / Zygadenus paniculatum)
round-leaf alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica)
sharp-tooth angelica (Angelica arguta)
Pacific trillium (Trillium ovatum)
Cascade mountain-ash (Sorbus scopulina)
Hooker’s fairy-bell (Prosartes hookeri)
mountain sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza berteroi)
chickweed, species uncertain (Cerastium sp.)
baneberry (Actaea rubra)
queen’s cup (Clintonia uniflora)
vanilla leaf (Achlys triphylla)
Fendler’s waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri)

Siberian spring-beauty (Claytonia sibirica)
blue-leaf strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa)
western / tiny swamp saxifrage (Micranthes apetala)
common cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum)
yellow (17)
stream-bank arnica (Arnica lanceolata)
heart-leaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia)
tall silvercrown (Cacaliopsis nardosmia)
tall / sharp-toothed cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)
hawkweed, species uncertain (Hieracium sp.)
bare-stem desert-parsley / biscuit-root (Lomatium nudicaule)
triternate desert-parsley / biscuit-root (Lomatium triternatum)
little / false / Douglas’s sunflower (Helianthella uniflora)
arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata)
yellow salsify (Tragopogon dubius)
stonecrop, species uncertain (Sedum sp.)
Cascade Oregon grape (Berberis / Mahonia nervosa)
holly-leaf Oregon grape (Berberis / Mahonia aquifolium)
western sweet-cicely (Osmorhiza occidentalis)
streamside / pioneer violet (Viola glabella)
glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)
twinberry / bush honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata)
reddish: pink to red to red-purple (12)
wood / baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa)
harsh paintbrush (Castilleja hispida) — red, orange, and yellow
spreading / mountain dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
red clover (Trifolium pratense)
taper-tip onion (Allium acuminatum)
swamp gooseberry (Ribes lacustre)
western meadow-rue (Thalictrum occidentale) ꟷ both  &  plants
red / western columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
calypso orchid (Calypso bulbosa)
maple-leaf currant (Ribes acerifolium)
red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum)
Columbia lewisia (Lewisia columbiana)

bluish: blue to violet to blue-purple (10)
thin-petal larkspur (Delphinium lineapetalum)
lupine, broad-leaf and/or big-leaf (Lupinus latifolius and/or polyphyllus)
American vetch (Vicia americana)
shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticosus)
penstemon, probably Chelan (Penstemon, probably pruinosus)
thread-leaf phacelia (Phacelia linearis)
small-flowered blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia parviflora)
tall bluebells (Mertensia paniculata)
ball-head waterleaf (Hydrophyllum capitatum)
meadow / blue stickseed (Hackelia micrantha)
orange (3)
orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa)
Columbia / tiger lily (Lilium columbianum)
large-flower collomia (Collomia grandiflora)
brown (2)
Oregon boxwood (Paxistima myrsinites)
mountain lady’s slipper (Cypripedium montanum)

BIRDS (with the help of Merlin)
Black-Headed Grosbeak
Western Wood-Pewee
Townsend’s Solitaire
Hermit Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
Western Tanager
Pacific Wren
Swainson’s Thrush

BUTTERFLIES
Boisduval’s Blue
Pale Tiger Swallowtail
Western Tiger Swallowtail
Lorquin’s Admiral
checkerspot, species uncertain
greater fritillary, species uncertain
Duskywing (Skipper), Persius or Dreamy
Mourning Cloak