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  • Ranunculus orthorhynchus / straightbeak buttercup

    • 5 (to 8) bright, shiny yellow petals with long pedicels
    • many stamens and pistils
    • large, compound leaves with 3-5 pointy-lobed leaflets
    • found in wet areas including irrigation ditches

  • Rosa spp. / wild rose

    • deep red (to pink) flowers; wonderfully fragrant
    • understory shrub in wetter areas
    • flowers mid-summer

  • Rudbeckia occidentals / western coneflower

    • dark cone-shaped flower head - like a sunflower without petals
    • ring of yellow "bumps" visible during pollination time
    • "cones" about 1" but double that when in seed.
    • usually a tall plant with sunflower-like leaves
    • alternate (not opposite) leaves

  • Sabulina nuttallii / Nuttall’s sandwort

    • small, glandular-pubescent perennial
    • trailing stems form mats
    • thin, rigid, needle-like leaves, about ½" long
    • small, white, 5-petaled flowers in terminal clusters
    • 5 green, pointy sepals
    • sagebrush hills to alpine slopes, and especially on gravelly benches or talus

  • Shepherdia canadensis / Canadian buffaloberry

    • deciduous shrub, opposite branches and leaves; understory
    • trichomes (hairs) on lower, often upper surfaces.
    • lower surface has rust-colored scales
    • teeny yellowish flowers before leaves appear; male and female on separate plants
    • red or orange, oval fruits with one stony seed; soapy when crushed

  • Streptopus amplexifolius / white twisted-stalk

    • creeping herb
    • oval, clasping leaves; parallel veins; sharp tip
    • pronounced stem "kink" at each node gives twisted look
    • drooping, cream-colored flowers, 6 recurved tepals, borne singly
    • single, elongated red berries in fall
    • found in moist undergrowth

  • Taraxia tanacetifolia / tansyleaf evening primrose

    • single, sessile, bright yellow, cup shaped flowers; 4 petals
    • grows as a rosette, flat to the ground
    • leaves are up to 12 inches long; very deeply lobed
    • still blooming in mid-October; starts in mid summer
    • grows on sandy/gravelly soil, e.g. drying lake beds

  • Tragopogon spp. / salsify

    • large yellow inflorescence with pointy sepals extending past the "flower"
    • grass-like leaves
    • non-native, weed
    • widespread

  • Tripleurospermum inodorum / scentless chamomile

    • daisy-like blossoms with finely divided leaves
    • central disk shape changes from button- to dome- to hemisphere- with age
    • ray petals droop as disk expands
    • leaves don't smell when crushed

  • Vaccinium membranaceum / thinleaf huckleberry

    • understory shrub, locally dominant
    • oval, alternate leaves
    • very small white/pink urn-shaped flowers
    • flowers in axils on red/yellow new growth
    • fruit - a bluish/purple to black, ¼" berry
    Also known as: tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, black huckleberry

  • Vaccinium scoparium / grouse whortleberry

    • low growing deciduous shrub
    • clonally spreading
    • green twigs and small (3/4 inch), oval, light green leaves
    • teeny, pendant, urn-shaped white/pink flowers
    • red berries in fall

  • Viola adunca / hooked violet

    • early spring, low to ground
    • small violet (blue) flowers with small white beards, small reddish spur
    • heart-shaped leaves
    • generally in somewhat moist areas

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