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  • Packera cana / woolly groundsel

    Packera cana / woolly groundsel

    • yellow, daisy-like blossoms with 8-13 ray florets ("petals")
    • golden, central disks
    • blossoms in flat-topped clusters of up to 15
    • mostly basal leaves - unlobed, hairy, ovate, up to 2 inches long
    • overall silvery appearance
  • Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel

    Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel

    • yellow-flowered composite; "flowers" on branched inflorescence
    • 8-13 half-inch ray florets, usually spaced apart
    • thick, spatula-shaped basal leaves without teeth or clefts
    • thin, often deeply lobed stem leaves
    • dry woodlands and rocky places
  • Penstemon procerus / littleflower penstemon

    Penstemon procerus / littleflower penstemon

    • low growing in exposed, undisturbed habitats
    • tight cluster/whorls of small purple/blue/pink flowers
    • tubular flowers, with lips around opening
  • Perideridia montana / Gairdner's yampah

    Perideridia montana / Gairdner’s yampah

    • white, compound umbel (like all the rest of the family)
    • apparently leafless much of the time, especially when blooming
  • Phacelia sericea / silky phacelia

    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
  • Plantanthera unalascensis / slender-spire orchid

    Plantanthera unalascensis / slender-spire orchid

    • teeny, green flowers, well-separated, not spiraled
    • a "tall, thin, green nothing"
    • basal leaves prostrate, but not appressed to the ground
    • leaves often wither before pollination occurs
    • found in many different habitats
  • Platanthera dilatata / white bog orchid

    Platanthera dilatata / white bog orchid

    • dense cluster of bright white, clove or cinnamon scented flowers
    • 2 wing-like sepals, a hood, and a lower lip with a spur
    • 3-6 principle leaves... alternate, lance-shaped
    • in boggy wet areas
  • Platanthera huronensis / green bog orchid

    Platanthera huronensis / green bog orchid

    • usually in bogs, fens, wetlands
    • up to two feet tall, but often shorter
    • thick, nearly vertical leaves with parallel veins (i.e. grass-like)
    • up to 75 very small flowers per stem (raceme)
    • flowers -light green to greenish-white; two petals, three sepals, a lip and club-like spur
    • lip is not pouch-like
  • Potentilla recta / sulfur cinquefoil

    Potentilla recta / sulfur cinquefoil

    • perennial
    • 8 to 30 stems per plant, each with 1-60 flowers
    • petals are light yellow; centers are darker, sulfur yellow
    • shiny, erect hairs arise at right angles to the stems.
    • leaves are alternate and palmately compound, 5-9 leaflets per leaf
    • invades both disturbed and undisturbed habitats
  • Ranunculus aquatilis / common water crowfoot

    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
  • Sedum lanceolatum / lanceleaf stonecrop

    Sedum lanceolatum / lanceleaf stonecrop

    • bright yellow, star-shaped flowers (possible red tinge)
    • fleshy/succulent, small leaves (green, yellow or red)
    • open rocky outcrops, gravelly sites
    • drought tolerant
  • Sisyrinchium idahoense / Idaho blue-eyed grass

    Sisyrinchium idahoense / Idaho blue-eyed grass

    • six blue, notched "petals" with yellow center
    • single flower; naked stem
    • narrow, grass-like, basal leaves
    • fens and wet meadows

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