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  • Convulvulus arvensis / field bindweed

    • prostrate and twining vine with white "morning-glory" flowers
    • may be so dense as to choke out other plants
    • roadsides, agricultural fields, waste areas
    • "noxious" in Idaho

  • Dicentra uniflora / steer’s head

    • looks like a very small, peach-colored long-horned steer's skull
    • leaves are 3-fold compound; leaflets deeply divided
    • leaves and flowers appear to be separate plants
    • on rocky, vernally-moist slopes right at snowmelt
    • considered hard to find but not rare

  • Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed

    • small flowers... pink to purple to white
    • four, very deeply notched petals
    • narrow, very long fruit; downy seeds

  • Eremogone congesta / sandwort

    • very small (teeny) white flowers in a ball-like arrangement
    • tufts of pointy-tipped needle-like leaves 3" or less long
    • cushion plant
    • dry, rocky or sandy soils, rock crevices

  • Erythronium grandiflorum / glacier lily

    • striking, yellow, six tepals - recurved and nodding
    • large, yellow or red anthers, a single pistil
    • two large green basal leaves
    • early spring

  • Fritillaria pudica / yellow fritillary

    • small, lovely, unprepossessing lily
    • a few, long, narrow leaves
    • a single (or two) yellow, bell-shaped flower
    • flowers turn brick red as they age
    • blooms just after snowmelt and disappears quickly

  • Gagea serotina / Snowdon lily

  • Helenium autumnale / common sneezeweed

    • 2" flower head with nearly spherical central disk; numerous yellow rays
    • found in moist areas in full or partial sun
    • sessile or clasping lance shaped leaves on an angled and winged stem

  • Helianthella uniflora / little sunflower

    • short (for a sunflower)
    • a single yellow, sun flower at the top of a hairy stem
    • flowers are only 2-3 inches across
    • leaves generally opposite with 3 prominent veins
    • exposed on hillsides; shallow, but well-drained soil

  • Heliomeris multiflora / showy goldeneye

    • a "Doggone" Yellow Composite (DYC) with 5-14 ray florets; golden dome of disc florets
    • multi-stemmed perennial forms clumps
    • often seen in profusion (but not always)
    • long, thin, lanceolate to linear leaves; maybe with a few small teeth along the edges
    • leaves have a strong midrib vein and distinct side veins

  • Lactuca pulchella / blue lettuce

    • looks like prickly lettuce, but blue and without prickly stems or leaves
    • clonal from spreading roots

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