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Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle
- flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
- fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
- no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
- short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
- understory, especially in moist forests
Malva neglecta / cheeseweed
- leaves look like grocery store geraniums (Pelargonium)
- flowers are small, pink-ish and often buried in the foliage
- fruits are small (ca. 1/2 in) and round
Micranthes odontoloma / brook saxifrage
- streamsides (or in the streams) especially at higher elevations
- white petals with beautiful red center
- yellow/green spots on the petals
- multiple drooping flowers on foot-long, leafless stems
Microsteris gracilis / slender phlox
- everything about it is teeny
- white or pink, 5-petal flowers ca. 2 mm diameter
- exposed, in early spring (ephemeral)
Opuntia fragilis / brittle pricklypear
- smallest pricklypear cactus; potato-shaped pads
- pads separate with lightest bump
- seldom flowers or fruits
Opuntia polyacantha / starvation cactus
- yellow or peach, complex, many-petaled flowers
- large globose, pointed buds with reddish scales
- cactus pads with long or short spines and nasty glochids
Parnassia fimbriata / fringed grass of Parnassus
- ca. 1" flower with obviously fringed, white petals
- flowers look very "complicated"
- thick, rounded basal leaves
- usually in wet places, but also alpine on rocks
Phlox diffusa / spreading phlox
- low, spreading, moss-like (before blooming)
- flowers 5-petaled, a variety of colors, and with a tube below the petals
- many habitat types incl. mountain slopes, rocky terrain, dry forests or with sagebrush
- blooms in early spring to early summer
- confusable with P. hoodii
Phlox hoodii / spiny phlox
- half-inch, five (or four) petaled flower with yellow center
- low to ground, mat forming, moss-like
- tightly packed, narrow, spiny leaves
- blooms in very early spring, just after snowmelt
- with sagebrush on dry, rocky soils
Phlox longifolia / longleaf phlox
- white or pink to almost rose flowers
- blooms in spring, sometimes through to August
- common on disturbed and undisturbed sites
Potentilla fruticosa / shrubby cinquefoil
- low, deciduous, shrub; wetlands and riparian zones
- yellow buttercup-like flowers with 5 leaflets, often in clusters
- blooms from June until frost
- pinnately compound leaves, typically with 5 leaflets
- fruit (achene) remains into winter
Prosartes trachycarpa / rough-fruited fairybells
- heart-shaped, clasping leaves with parallel veins
- pendant white flowers with 6 petals/tepals, often obscured by leaves
- round, yellow then orange then red fruits with rough surface in late summer
- moist forest understoreys