Selected Plant Species Found in
Upland Prairie Ecosystems of the Willamette Valley*

Grasses
Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis var. roemeri)
Red fescue (Festuca rubra)
California oatgrass (Danthonia californica)
Wild blue-rye (Elymus glaucus)
Lemmon's needlegrass (Achnatherum lemmonii)
Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)

Forbs
Tolmie's mariposa (Calochortus tolmiei)
Hooker's catchfly (Silene hookeri)
Rose check-mallow (Sidalcea virgata)
Wooly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatus)
Wild strawberry (Fragaria viginiana)
Cinquefoil species (Potentilla gracilis)

Rare Vascular Plants
Kincaid's lupine (Lupinus sulphureus spp. kincadii)
Pale larkspur (Delphinium leucophaeum)
Golden paintbrush (Castilleja levisecta)
Howell's montia (Montia howellii)
Meadow sidalcea (Sidalcea campestris)
Willamette daisy (Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens)
White-top aster (Aster curtus)

*This list was compiled from two documents, the EPA Federal Register Document (Jan. 25, 2000) and an upland prairie recovery plan by Mark. V. Wilson, 1998.  Scientific and common names were verified using Flora of the Pacific Northwest (Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1991).  Please Note: this list is not complete.

Hitchcock, Leo and Arthur Cronquist. 1991. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, eight ed.  University of Washington Press:  Washington.