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Acer glabrum / Rocky Mountain maple
- understory shrub, small tree, multiple stems
- opposite leaves; red twigs
- maple-like leaves
- teeny flowers; double-helicopter fruits
Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
Blitum nuttallianum / Nuttall’s povertyweed
- ugly little creeping plant from a central stem
- arrow-shaped leaves with two prominent lobes, especially on lower leaves
- teeny clusters of teeny greenish flowers; no petals; in most leaf axils
- widespread, but usually exposed and weed-like
Carex spectabilis / showy sedge
- roadsides or in wet and seasonally flooded meadows
- showy inflorescences... yellow (stamens) above white (stigmas) on a purple background
- grass/iris-like leaves up to 2 feet tall
Clematis ligusticifolia / western white clematis
- climbing vine... makes dense canopy
- in canyons and streamside thickets
- compound leaves with 5-15 leaflets, often widely spaced
- white flowers with 4 "petals", many pistils and stamens — late summer
- fruit is fluffy white cluster in Sept/Oct
Crepis acuminata / tapertip hawksbeard
- leaves (diagnostic) - long; many deep triangular, pointed lobes; upright, grey-green; milky sap
- flowers - 5-10 rays, no disc florets; yellow; up to 70 per plant
- dry, open places in foothills; commonly with sagebrush
Erigeron divergens / spreading fleabane
- very small aster with many ray florets (petals)
- flowering stems have as many as 100 very small flowers
- leaves are hairy
- highly drought tolerant
Erysimum asperum / prairie-rocket wallflower
- yellow flowers, large for a crucifer
- flowers in clusters above foliage
- oval/elliptical leaves, to 4" long... hairy
- long thin fruit pod (silique) perpendicular to stem, may curve upward
Eurybia integrifolia / thickstem aster
- purple composite with 10-20 ray florets
- entire, elongated leaves with short or no petioles
- exposed areas, mountain slopes, dry meadows, roadsides
- flowers in late summer and into September
Heuchera parvifolia / littleleaf alumroot
- subalpine, alpine... on rocks
- clusters of round or kidney-shaped leaves
- leaves lobed, all basal (no stem leaves)
- inflorescences tower over leaves
- clumps of teeny, yellow flowers along a spike-like flowering stalk
Hieracium albiflorum / white hawkweed
- white, dandelion-like flower; up to 50 per plant
- 6-25 florets
- square-end petals each with 4 small notches
- hairy stems and basal leaves
- shady openings in dry forests
Ivesia gordonii / Gordon’s mousetail
- subalpine to alpine
- low, on shallow, rocky soils
- individual stalks are leaves with ~20 overlapping lobes
- clusters of teeny yellow flowers on naked stems