Fender’s Blue Butterfly
Fender’s Blue Butterfly is recognizable by a small blue butterfly; males are brighter blue while females are brown with blue scaling.
Oregon, United States: places and wildlife — page 4
Browse the published Explore collection for Oregon, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Willamette Daisy
Willamette Daisy is recognizable by a low perennial daisy with pale purple rays, yellow disks, and narrow grasslike leaves.
Kincaid’s Lupine
Kincaid’s Lupine is recognizable by a perennial lupine with palmate leaves and blue-purple flower clusters, spreading through rhizomes.
Cook’s Lomatium
Cook’s Lomatium is recognizable by a low parsley relative with finely divided leaves and small yellow umbels.
Port Orford Cedar
Port Orford Cedar is recognizable by a tall aromatic conifer with flattened sprays, tiny scale leaves, and small round cones.
Mardon Skipper
Mardon Skipper is a small tawny-orange skipper with a stout hairy body and pale rectangular marks beneath and is most meaningfully sought in native grasslands and open meadows in south Puget Sound and the southern Cascades.
Taylor’s Checkerspot
Taylor’s Checkerspot is a compact orange, cream, and black checkered butterfly with strongly patterned wings and is most meaningfully sought in short-stature native prairie and balds with larval host plants.
Golden Paintbrush
Golden Paintbrush is an upright hairy perennial with brilliant golden-yellow bracts and narrow lower leaves and is most meaningfully sought in Puget Trough glacial outwash and island prairies, plus restored Willamette Valley sites.
Western Redcedar
Western Redcedar is a very large conifer with fibrous reddish bark, drooping leader, and flattened sprays of scale leaves and is most meaningfully sought in moist forests, river terraces, wetlands, and shaded slopes across the Pacific Northwest.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.