Bach's calicoflower
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.