Annual knawel
Scleranthus annuus
Blow-wives (fruit)
Achyrachaena mollis
Carrotleaf horkelia
Horkelia daucifolia
Cow parsnip
Heracleum lanatum
Death camas
Zigadensus venenosus
Dotseed plantain
Plantago erecta
Drop-pod (fruit)
Athysanus pusillus
Eyelash weed
Blepharipappus scaber
Grand collomia
Collomia grandiflora
Hayfield tarweed
Hemizonia congesta
Henderson's triteleia
Triteleia hendersonii
Large-flowered woolly meadowfoam
Limnanthes pumila grandiflora
Largeleaf sandwort
Moehingria macrophylla
Martha Washington Lily
Lilium washingtonianum
Meadow nemophilia
Nemophilia pedunculata
Mock orange
Philadelphis lewisii
Mouse-tails
Myosurus minimus
Northwestern saxifrage
Micranthes intergrifolia
Pacific ninebark
Physocarpus capitatus
Paper onion
Allium amplectens
Poison-oak
Toxicodendron diversilobum
Q-tips
Micropus californica
Spur lupine
Lupinus arbustus
Stream wakerobin
Trillium albidum
Turkey mullein
Croton setigerus
Valley tassel paintbrush
Castilleja attenuata
Western trillium
Trillium ovatum
White brodiaea
Triteleia hyacinthina
White fairypoppy
Meconella oregana
Whitehead navarretia
Navarretia leucocephala
Wild cucumber
Marah oreganus
Wooly-head clover
Trifolium eriocephalum

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.