one to several flowers

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  • Eremogone capillaris / fescue sandwort

    • five petals, white, in clusters of ca. 3 flowers per stalk
    • prominent stamens with large anthers
    • grass-like (fescue-like) opposite leaves
    • in clumps or mats, in rock cracks and rocky meadows
    • alpine and subalpine

  • Erigeron speciosus / aspen fleabane

    • prolific purple-ish flowers with many "petals" and a yellow center
    • forest openings and edges, meadows
    • late blooming - a "fall aster"

  • Erythranthe lewisii / Lewis’s monkeyflower

    • pink to magenta with floral tube, two lips and yellow nectar guides
    • usually stream-side in dense clumps
    • striking

  • 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

  • Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary

    • uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
    • six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
    • six bright yellow anthers
    • few, grass-like leaves
    • usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest

  • Galium borealis / northern bedstraw

    • teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
    • two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
    • linear leaves - like rosemary
    • smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws

  • Gentian affinis / pleated gentian

    • brilliantly blue, funnel-shaped flowers
    • petals (lobes) pointed, joined by ragged plaits
    • flowers in clumps or singly at tops of stems
    • leaves lanceolate and opposite on square stems.
    • found in a variety of wet sites

  • Gentiana calycosa / explorer’s gentian

    • opposite, sessile leaves on unbranched stems; clonal
    • deep blue funnel-shaped flowers with white throats and yellow spots
    • 5 pointed petals with fringed pleats between them
    • in wetter areas at higher elevations

  • 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

  • Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed

    • small-ish yellow flowers
    • button-like buds
    • attractively compact, globe-shaped plant

  • Hyocyamus niger / black henbane

    • highly toxic! including contact dermatitis
    • 5-lobed, funnel-shaped flowers, brownish yellow with purple veins and center; 1.5" across
    • flowers in summer, e.g. warm June, July
    • elliptical leaves, pointy tips, toothed or lobed margins, prominent veins
    • highly disturbed areas: wastelands, field edges etc.

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