Nature

Western Skunk Cabbage Lysichiton americanus Apr – Sep One of the first flowers of spring in wet ground: a glowing yellow hood with a skunky smell, followed by giant leaves… Western Sword Fern Polystichum munitum Year-round The large evergreen fern that carpets shady lower forests, with leathery fronds and a small hilt-like lobe at the base of each… White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys Apr – Jul, Sep A gray-breasted sparrow with a bold black and white striped crown, found in brushy openings from the lowlands to timberline. Woodland Beardtongue Nothochelone nemorosa Jul – Sep A leafy summer wildflower of mountain forests with loose sprays of rosy purple, tubular flowers and paired, sharply toothed leaves. Woodland Pinedrops Pterospora andromedea Jun – Sep A tall, sticky, reddish stalk with no green leaves, hung with small pale urn-shaped flowers. It gets its food through fungi linked… Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota flaviventris Jul – Aug Oregon's largest squirrel, a stocky marmot of rock piles and meadows that whistles an alarm and spends most of the year hibernating. Yellow-pine Chipmunk Neotamias amoenus Jun – Sep A small, bright chipmunk of open pine forests east of the Cascade crest, with bold black and white stripes on its back… Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata Apr – Oct A small, busy warbler with a bright yellow rump patch. It nests in mountain conifer forest and, unlike most warblers, many stay… Yellowfoot Craterellus tubaeformis Sep – Jan A small, late-season relative of chanterelles with a brown, funnel-shaped cap, grayish false gills and a hollow yellow stem.