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  • Prunus virginiana / western chokecherry

    • oval leaves with serrated margins and abrupt taper at tip
    • reddish twigs with prominent lenticels
    • drooping clumps of white flowers w/ yellow centers in spring
    • red to black cherries in fall, up to ½ inch diameter
    • leaves turn orange or yellow in fall

  • 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

  • Ribes aureum / golden current

    • shrub up to 10 feet tall
    • spring bloomer, golden yellow flower in clusters
    • small, maple-like leaves
    • 1/2 inch berries in late summer, golden to black

  • Ribes hudsonianum / northern black currant

    • moist wooded areas, streambanks
    • erect, spike-like inflorescences with up to 50 white flowers
    • bitter berries, ripening to black
    • leaves and stems covered with resinous glands
    • leaves 3-5 lobed, glandular below
    • smells bad

  • Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel

    • early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
    • bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
    • only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
    • cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
    • seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen

  • Senecio triangularis / arrowleaf ragwort

    • leafy stems with arrow-shaped, coarse-toothed leaves
    • often in large patches on moist soil
    • clusters of yellow flower heads, each with 8-ish untidy ray florets
    • numerous green involucral bracts, sometimes with black tips
    • largest leaves occur mid-stem

  • Solidago missouriensis / Missouri goldenrod

    • perennial herb, up to 40" tall
    • inflorescence is a branching panicle with many (≥200) yellow flower heads
    • involucres are ¼ long with 3 or 4 layers of narrow, pointed, hairless, yellow-green bracts
    • leaves are thin and lanceolate, upright and rigid with prominent midribs
    • upper leaves have pronounced but small teeth

  • Veronica wyomingensis / Wyoming kittentails

    • alpine or subalpine (mostly); rocky outcrops
    • short
    • elliptical leaves with sharp toothed edges
    • red/purple many-flowered inflorescence

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