I went on a four-hour bike ride through Cowiche Canyon yesterday. Super fun zipping up and down the single track trails. Snapped a few more nerdy plant pictures while out and about. Offloading them here for future reference. I think the Death Camas was kind of a cool find.

Cowiche Canyon uplands single track bike path and view to the south of Yakima:

Artemisia rigida (Stiff sagebrush):

Ribes cereum (Squaw currant):

Balsamorhiza hookeri (Hooker’s balsamroot):

Astragalus purshii (Woolly-pod locoweed):

Zigadenus venenosus (Death camas):

Balsamorhiza sagittata (Arrow-leaf balsamroot):

Brodiaea howellii (Brodiaea): (left photo)
Allium sp. (Wild onion): (right photo)

Cowiche Canyon, April 8, 2012. About a 10 minute drive down the road. Lots of rain the past couple weeks and the early spring flowers are going bananas in the shrub-steppe.

Artemisia tridentata (Big Sagebrush):

Olsynium douglasii (Grass Widow):

Phlox hoodii (Cushion Phlox):

Lomatium columbianum (Columbia Desert Parsley):

Fritillaria pudica (Yellow Bell):

Lithophragma parviflora (Prairie Star Flower):

Lomatium piperi (Salt and Pepper):

Viola trinervata (Sagebrush Violet): (left photo)
Crocidium multicaule (Gold Star): (right photo)

Ranunculus glaberrimus (Sagebrush Buttercup): (left photo)
Bromus tectorum (Cheat Grass): (right photo)

The new ride. 2004 Nissan Xterra (69,400 miles).