Ranunculaceae

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Aconitum columbianum / monkshood
- brilliant blue/purple - ish; mixed colors or white
- petal-like sepals form the hood
- palmate, deeply-lobed & toothed leaves
Actaea rubra / red baneberry
- large, coarsely toothed, deeply lobed compound leaves
- clusters of teeny white flowers that look feathery or fluffy (due to stamens)
- green berries in late summer, maturing to red or white
- black dot at tip of each berry
- moist understory or shade
Anemone multifida / cutleaf windflower
- usually 5 bi-colored "petals" - esp. pink or white; many stamens
- leaves deeply cut and re-cut in 3s with rounded or pointed tips
- stems and lower leaf surfaces usually hairy
- gone to seed, fruits have a troll-doll look
- on calcareous ledges, in shallow crevices or rocky outcrops; dry mountain tops or near water
Aquilegia coerulea / Colorado blue columbine
- blue to white to pink or yellow tinged
- long spurs (tails) as long as the petals are large
- blooms late spring and July (stragglers in August)
Clematis hirsutissima / hairy clematis
- striking, purple, upside-down vase
- four hairy sepals (not actually petals) fused to make the vase
- one flower per stem
- leaves divided into narrow leaflets
- moist or seasonally moist meadows
Clematis ligusticifolia / western white clematis
- climbing vine... makes dense canopy
- in canyons and streamside thickets
- compound leaves with 5-15 leaflets, often widely spaced
- white flowers with 4 "petals", many pistils and stamens — late summer
- fruit is fluffy white cluster in Sept/Oct
Clematis occidentalis / purple clematis
- grows as a vine with hairy stems - on ground, over logs or up trees
- leaves are trifoliate
- flowers have 4 "petals" and hang down (nodding)
- thick central core of stamens and pistils
Delphinium bicolor / low larkspur
- short plant with a spike of purple flowers
- individual flowers have a pronounced spur out the back
- leaves are few, round, deeply lobed, about the size of a quarter
- widespread throughout the valley and on the hills
- appears and blooms soon after snowmelt
Delphinium nuttallianum / upland larkspur
- Bright blue flowers, sometimes whitish or other color petals in center
- One or several flowers per stalk
- Long spur "behind" the flower
- Leaves mostly low on the stem - divided into several or many lobes
- Open meadows, near streams, with sagebrush, any elevation
- Beginning soon after snowmelt and sometime persisting into September
Delphinium x occidentale / tall larkspur
- white with blue center, long white spur (tail) out the back
- flowers on tall racemes, up to 6 feet - more than 50 per stalk
- highly divided/lobed leaves
- flowers look a lot like garden larkspurs
Ranunculus adoneus / alpine buttercup
- short, high altitude plant
- rocks or moist meadows
- yellow "buttercuppy" flowers, 5-10 petals
- huge numbers of stigmas
- highly lobed, finely dissected leaves
Ranunculus aquatilis / common water crowfoot
- found in slowly flowing water ways, ditches, ponds
- white, waxy flowers with yellow centers; 4 or 5 petals
- flowers raised a couple inches above the water surface
- usually grows in dense mats that look a lot like slime