Yellow

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Lomatium triternatum / nineleaf biscuitroot
- flowers soon after snowmelt
- yellow compound umbel on leafless stem
- leaves are three-fold compound; leaflets grass-like
- may be tall with wide umbels on good soil
- may be very short with small umbels on rocky, sandy, low nutrient soil
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
Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle
- flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
- fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
- no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
- short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
- understory, especially in moist forests
Lotus corniculatus / birds-foot trefoil
- roadsides and other disturbed areas
- numerous bright yellow, pea-like flowers
- three, oval and pointed leaflets
- seed pods are arranged like toes on a bird's foot
Madia glomerata / mountain tarweed
- stems, leaves, flowers - strongly aromatic, like tar
- sticky glandular hairs cover foliage and floral bracts
- flowers in clusters with 1 to 3 yellow ray florets
- disk florets retain visible petals; black stamens
Mahonia repens / creeping Oregon grape
- pinnately compound with toothed, holly-like leaflets
- clusters of yellow flowers in spring; blue berries in late summer
- low, creeping shrub
- evergreen - but winter leaves are reddish
Medicago lupulina / black medic
- prostrate, long creeping stems
- compound leaves with 3 small, rounded leaflets
- teeny yellow flowers in very small button-like clusters
- disturbed areas with compacted soil - roadsides & wastelands
Melilotus spp / sweetclover
- yellow or white, floppy, tubular flowers in long-ish clusters (racemes)
- 3 small, pointy leaflets with petioles
- rangy, unkempt branching
- roadsides, waste places and sometimes in fields, grasslands
Oenothera villosa / hairy evening primrose
- yellow flowers on tall stalks, several flowers in a cluster
- 4 petals; 8 stamens; large, 4 part stigma
- hairy - often reddish - stems; hairy leaves
- lance-shaped leaves, larger on stem than basal
- disturbed areas and stream banks
Opuntia fragilis / brittle pricklypear
- smallest pricklypear cactus; potato-shaped pads
- pads separate with lightest bump
- seldom flowers or fruits
Opuntia polyacantha / starvation cactus
- yellow or peach, complex, many-petaled flowers
- large globose, pointed buds with reddish scales
- cactus pads with long or short spines and nasty glochids
Oxybasis glauca / oak-leaved goosefoot
- typically prostrate and small, apart from other plants
- mudflats and other drying wet areas
- small, blue-green, small-lobed leaves; often w/ reddish stems
- teeny clusters of teeny yellow flowers
- leaves feel cool and damp due to glandular hairs on lower surface