Yellow

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  • Agoseris glauca / yellow false dandelion

    • yellow, dandelion-like flower - same size and color
    • long-ish, thin leaves growing at ground level (a rosette); no lobes or pointy bits
    • blooms in spring and summer
    • shade intolerant but on sites ranging from moderately dry to wet

  • Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort

    • short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
    • short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
    • seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
    • disturbed sites of any kind
    • often in dense populations

  • Argentina anserina / silverweed

    • silvery, compound leaves on low, creeping stems
    • yellow, 5+ petaled flowers; lots of stamens
    • fens, other wetlands, but also roadsides

  • Arnica cordifolia / heartleaf arnica

    • yellow, daisy-like flowers; 1-2 per shoot
    • opposite, heart shaped leaves; long petioles; 2-4 pair per stem
    • large clonal colonies with many flowering and non-flowering shoots
    • the dominant ground cover  in moderate shade in many forests

  • Artemisia absinthium / wormwood

    • deeply lobed leaves; grey-green (hairy); aromatic (like sage)
    • stems to 4' tall; up to 20 per plant
    • small clusters of teeny yellow flowers in drooping heads
    • disturbed areas and may be weedy

  • Artemisia cana / silver sagebrush

    • Low perennial, silvery shrub
    • Highly aromatic, like sagebrush
    • Entire leaves - no lobes
    • Nondescript, inconspicuous flowers in small clusters with leaf-like bracts
    • Grows in more moist habitat than other Artemisia spp.

  • Artemisia ludoviciana / white sage

    • low, spreading perennial - up to 3 feet tall
    • silvery leaves and stems (hairy)
    • leaves lance shaped, but sometimes lobed
    • shoots die back in winter
    • aromatic

  • Artemisia rigida / stiff sagebrush

    • low growing deciduous shrub
    • short, 3-5 lobed, grey leaves (hairy)
    • mild to pungently aromatic leaves
    • brittle branches up to 16 inches long

  • Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush

    • medium-sized grey-green shrub
    • highly aromatic
    • tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
    • limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)

  • Artemisia tripartita / threetip sagebrush

    • evergreen shrub; branches in broom-like clusters
    • all parts covered with silvery/grey-green glandular hairs
    • leaves long and very deeply, very distinctly 3-lobed
    • flowers in spikes/racemes - all bits teeny, overall yellow-ish/reddish
    • often with mountain big sagebrush on nutrient poor soils

  • Balsamorhiza macrophylla / cutleaf balsamroot

    • large, yellow, sunflower-like blossom
    • large, dissected/lobed/compound-looking leaves
    • up to 40" tall
    • roadsides or hillsides with arrowleaf balsamroot and Wyethia

  • Balsamorhiza sagittata / arrowleaf balsamroot

    • large, bright yellow, sunflower-like blossoms in early spring
    • very large, more or less triangular basal leaves
    • leaves appear silvery, or grey-green due to leaf hairs
    • on open, fairly dry hillsides and ridges, often with sagebrush

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