Rosaceae

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  • Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry

    • erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
    • usually several trunks
    • compact, fragrant white flower clusters
    • star-like flowers
    • smallish, light-green, oval leaves
    • small, edible blue "berries" by July
    • red/orange fall leaf color

  • Argentina anserina / silverweed

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

  • Cercocarpus ledifolius / curl-leaf mountain mahogany

  • Crataegus douglasii / black hawthorn

    • slightly thorny shrub or small tree, to 30 feet
    • often forms thickets
    • broad leaves with toothed edges, clumped at ends of branches
    • clumps of white, globe-shaped flowers in spring; prominent black anthers
    • clumps of black "berries" in autumn

  • 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)

  • Fragaria vesca / woodland strawberry

    • trifoliate, light green markedly toothed leaves
    • clusters of hairy, 5-petaled white flowers on a soft-hairy stem
    • plants spread by stolons
    • fruit (if any) red with bumps where the seeds are
    • spring/early summer bloom
    • widespread

  • Geum macrophyllum / largeleaf avens

    • yellow, 5-petaled flowers; not glossy
    • many long styles in green center
    • fruits look like little marbles covered with red velcro
    • fruits and flowers present at the same time
    • deeply divided, sessile leaves on flowering stems

  • 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

  • Ivesia gordonii / Gordon’s mousetail

    • subalpine to alpine
    • low, on shallow, rocky soils
    • individual stalks are leaves with ~20 overlapping lobes
    • clusters of teeny yellow flowers on naked stems

  • Potentilla fruticosa / shrubby cinquefoil

    • low, deciduous, shrub; wetlands and riparian zones
    • yellow buttercup-like flowers with 5 leaflets, often in clusters
    • blooms from June until frost
    • pinnately compound leaves, typically with 5 leaflets
    • fruit (achene) remains into winter

  • Potentilla gracilis / slender cinquefoil

    • yellow, 5-petaled flowers with many stamens
    • petals touch or overlap
    • leaves with 5-9 toothed, deeply cut lobes
    • leaves may be hairy, especially below
    • many different exposed habitats

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