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Dowingia bacigalupii
 
              
              
              Bicolored lupine
Lupinus bicolor
 
              
              
              Blue dicks
Dipterostemon capitatus
 
              
              
              Blue-eyed grass
Sisyribchum bellum
 
              
              
              Checker lily
Fritillaria affinis
 
              
              
              Chinese pagoda
Collinisia grandiflora
 
              
              
              Dead nettle
Lamium amplexicaule
 
              
              
              Dog violet
Viola adunca
 
              
              
              Downy navarretia
Navarretia pubescens
 
              
              
              Elegant brodiaea
Brodiaea elegans
 
              
              
              Fringepod
Thysanocarpus radians
 
              
              
              Great camas
Camassia leichtlinii
 
              
              
              Hound's tongue
Adelina grande
 
              
              
              Ookow
Dichelostamma congestum
 
              
              
              Oregon geranium
Geranium oreganum
 
              
              
              Purple henbit
Lamium purpureum
 
              
              
              Purple-eyed grass
Olysnium douglasii
 
              
              
              Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris
 
              
              
              Silver lupine
Lupinus albifrons
 
              
              
              Skullcap
Scuttellaria antirrhinoides
 
              
              
              Small-flowered blue-eyed Mary
Collinsia parviflora
 
              
              
              Sparse blue-eyed Mary
Collinsia sparsiflora
 
              
              
              Sticky blue-eyed Mary
Collinisa linearis
 
              
              
              Vinegarweed
Trichostemma lanceolata
 
              
              
              Wild ginger
Asaurum caudatum
 
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
      
 
  
  
    
    
      
       
  
  
    
    
      
       
  
  
    
    
     
            
If you ever peer into a half-rotted log you might be so lucky to find a slippery pair of eyes staring back at you. If you’re extremely lucky those eyes could belong to a Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Usually seen wriggling through woody debris or eating a mildly toxic banana slug, these marbled beauties are found throughout western Oregon.