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  • Agoseris aurantiaca / orange mountain dandelion

    • unusual burnt-orange color
    • basically - looks like an orange dandelion
    • linear leaves - unlike the "real" dandelion

  • Centaurea maculosa / spotted knapweed

    • "vibrant" pink flowers
    • dark tips on the sepals ("bud scales") - the "spotted" in the name
    • biennial - rosette of leaves in first year
    • officially a noxious weed

  • Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush

    • golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
    • small 5-petaled flowers
    • widespread shrub
    • very narrow, linear leaves
    • white sticky sap ("rubber")

  • Gaillardia aristata / common blanketflower

    • bright red petals with yellow tips, or yellow petals the whole way
    • reddish brown central disk
    • attractive yellow seed balls with tufts of red hair all over
    • leathery, slightly hairy leaves

  • Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed

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

  • Hydrophyllum capitatum / ballhead waterleaf

    • leaves to 10" tall, deeply lobed (7-11 lobes)
    • globe of purple-blue-white flowers below the leaves or at ground level
    • flowers are fuzzy while still in bud
    • rocky, shady, seasonally moist sites

  • 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

  • Sedum lanceolatum / lanceleaf stonecrop

    • bright yellow, star-shaped flowers (possible red tinge)
    • fleshy/succulent, small leaves (green, yellow or red)
    • open rocky outcrops, gravelly sites
    • drought tolerant

  • 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

  • Stenotus acaulis / stemless goldenweed

    • very short, mat forming perennial yellow "daisy"
    • thin, lance-shaped leaves, pointing upward
    • yellow flower head with 6-15 ray florets, up to 50 disk florets
    • in dry, rocky, open-scrub habitats

  • Tanacetum vulgare / tansy

    • yellow, somewhat flattened, button-like flowers
    • pretty clearly in the aster family
    • camphor-ish smell
    • finely divided, fern-like compound leaves

  • Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover

    • a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
    • leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
    • leaves on long petioles
    • flower heads on long peduncles,

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