Purple

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  • Hydrophyllum capitatum / ballhead waterleaf

    • leaves to 10" tall, deeply lobed (7-11 lobes)
    • globe of purple-blue-white flowers below the leaves or at ground level
    • flowers are fuzzy while still in bud
    • rocky, shady, seasonally moist sites

  • Hyocyamus niger / black henbane

    • highly toxic! including contact dermatitis
    • 5-lobed, funnel-shaped flowers, brownish yellow with purple veins and center; 1.5" across
    • flowers in summer, e.g. warm June, July
    • elliptical leaves, pointy tips, toothed or lobed margins, prominent veins
    • highly disturbed areas: wastelands, field edges etc.

  • Lonicera involucrata / twinberry honeysuckle

    • flowers - inconspicuous, paired, yellow, bell-shaped with green bracts
    • leaves - opposite, oval, often hairy beneath
    • fruit - a pair of blue-black/purple berries with red, winglike bracts
    • multi-stemmed shrub - to 15 feet tall

  • Lupinus spp. / silvery and silky lupins

    • palmately compound, usually silvery-green leaves
    • 5-9 leaflets per leaf; long petioles
    • flowers on long, spikey racemes, blooming from bottom upward
    • numerous flowers, but all rather teeny; most purple or blue
    • flowers are above the leaves
    • seeds in short, hairy pods

  • Medicago sativa / alfalfa

    • escaped forage plant
    • bright purple flowers in dense clusters
    • pea-like flowers with broad upper petal, 2 small laterals, keel
    • compound leaves with 3 leaflets, the central one extended on a short stalk
    • disturbed sites - roadsides, full sun

  • Penstemon rydbergii / Rydberg’s penstemon

    • small, blue/purple tubular flowers in leafy whorls
    • flowers lack glands or hairs
    • basal rosette of bright green, spoon-shaped leaves without glands or hairs
    • stem leaves are lanceolate, around flower clusters
    • wetter areas, but also along Victor/Driggs bike path

  • Penstemon whippleanus / dusky beardtongue

    • large-ish purple or creamy-white tubular flowers
    • from the side, flowers look like a gaping mouth; 2 lobes above, 3 below
    • flowers typically hang down in small clusters at the top of their stems
    • opposite, sessile leaves on flowering stems
    • subalpine on rocky areas, as at Darby wind cave

  • Phacelia hastata / silverleaf scorpionweed

    • flowers - dull white-ish/purple-ish, numerous in short, compact, coiled clusters
    • stamens extend well past petals
    • leaves - basal with prominent veins; usually covered with silvery hairs; usually entire
    • multiple flowering stems on a single plant
    • in a variety of habitats

  • Phacelia sericea / silky phacelia

    • deep purple flowers with really long stamens and orange anthers
    • many flowers arranged in a tight coil up to 2 feet long
    • silky, divided (fern-like) leaves
    • exposed, higher altitude, rocky places; often with sagebrush

  • Poa bulbosa / bulbous meadow-grass

    • short, tuft-forming grass
    • funny-looking flower stalks... having bulblets instead of florets
    • doesn't produce pollen or seeds

  • Prunella vulgaris / self-heal

    • compact spike of tiny purple, mint-like flowers
    • upper/lower lips purple and white respectively
    • square stems, opposite leaves

  • Ribes lacustre / prickly currant

    • deeply lobed, maple-like leaves
    • prickly stems with spines at nodes
    • shrub to ca. 4 feet tall
    • teeny cream & purple flowers in dangling clusters in spring
    • red berries in late summer maturing to very small black berries

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