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Dicentra uniflora / steer’s head
- looks like a very small, peach-colored long-horned steer's skull
- leaves are 3-fold compound; leaflets deeply divided
- leaves and flowers appear to be separate plants
- on rocky, vernally-moist slopes right at snowmelt
- considered hard to find but not rare
Dodecatheon pulchellum / shooting star
- five pink to lavender lobes projecting backwards
- white or yellow petal bases above a squiggly purple ring
- anthers joined into a projecting point; stigma projecting past the point
- snowmelt to early spring
- wet meadows to sagebrush communities
Drymocallis arguta / tall cinquefoil
- yellow flowers, 5 petals with pointy green sepals between
- many stamens; central disk of yellow pistils
- flowers in clusters with short stems (cyme)
- most leaves basal - pinnately compound, coarsely toothed, obovate
- many soil types, but not overly moist
Drymocallis glandulosa / sticky cinquefoil
- deeply lobed (almost compound) leaves (3-5 lobes)
- clusters of cream or white 5-petaled flowers
- pointy green sepals visible between non-overlapping petals
- ≥25 stamens
- sticky stems, involucres and buds (glandular hairs)
Eremogene kingii / King’s sandwort
- low-growing herb with long, thin basal leaf clusters
- white, 5-petaled flowers, ca. 1/2 in across, in terminal clusters
- 10 stamens, sometimes dark, sometimes white
- at higher elevations on shallow soil
Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush
- golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
- small 5-petaled flowers
- widespread shrub
- very narrow, linear leaves
- white sticky sap ("rubber")
Erigeron compositus / cutleaf fleabane
- "obviously" a daisy - white "petals" (ray florets), yellow center (disk florets)
- flowers ca. 1" diameter
- flowers grow above hairy leaf mat
- early spring - soon after snowmelt
- rocky areas amongst sagebrush
Erigeron divergens / spreading fleabane
- very small aster with many ray florets (petals)
- flowering stems have as many as 100 very small flowers
- leaves are hairy
- highly drought tolerant
Erysimum cheiranthoides / wormseed wallflower
- yellow, 4-petaled flower, less than 1/3 inch across
- lance shaped or elliptical, sessile leaves varying little in size or shape
- leaf margins entire or coarsely toothed
- ribbed stems
- ascending or erect siliques with short pedicels
- disturbed and waste areas
Gagea serotina / Snowdon lily
Geum triflorum / prairie smoke
- among the earliest bloomers in the spring
- clusters of nodding reddish, pink, maroon or purple flowers
- flowers in groups of 3
- distinctive fruit - like silvery-pink or mauve "troll dolls"
- in large populations, fruiting plants look (sort of) like smoke
Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed
- small-ish yellow flowers
- button-like buds
- attractively compact, globe-shaped plant