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Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel
- yellow-flowered composite; "flowers" on branched inflorescence
- 8-13 half-inch ray florets, usually spaced apart
- thick, spatula-shaped basal leaves without teeth or clefts
- thin, often deeply lobed stem leaves
- dry woodlands and rocky places
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
Paxistima myrsinites / Oregon boxwood
- low shrub
- small, opposite leaves; lightly toothed, leathery, oval
- very early spring flowering
- teeny flowers with 4 red petals, 4 yellow stamens; in clusters
- usually on open, dry, sunny sites or open forests
Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort
- dense, narrow inflorescence on upper half of stem
- yellow, beak-like flowers with upper and lower lips
- flowers from bottom to top
- conspicuous, fern-like leaves
- old flowers become light brown but remain on stalk
Pedicularis contorta / curved-beak lousewort
- alpine and subalpine habitats
- fern-like leaves at base
- tall, spikey inflorescence
- white flowers with coiled upper beak and flat, 3-lobed lower lip
Pedicularis groenlandica / elephant head
- flowers range from pink to purple or white
- flowers each have a long, pointed, upward curving beak like an elephant's trunk and lateral lobes that look like elephant's ears
- sharply-toothed fernlike leaves
- wet environments in late June, early July
Pedicularis racemosa / leafy lousewort
- clumps of plants with maroon stems in forest understory
- white to pink flowers in upper leaf axils
- flowers have beak-like upper lip and wide three-lobed lower lip
- leaves narrow and tapering, slightly serrate, maroon when young
Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon
- two-toned totally tubular flower (blue and pink-ish)
- early spring to at least mid-summer
- widespread in low disturbance habitats - even when rocky and "bare"
Penstemon eatonii / firecracker penstemon
- roadsides, especially revegetated by DOT
- 2" brilliantly red, tubular flowers
- mostly basal leaves, ovate to lanceolate, leathery
Penstemon palmeri / Palmer’s penstemon
- very tall, exposed
- pink flowers with rose/grape scent
- flowers clumped on one side of stem in groups of 4-5
- red "guidelines" (bloody fangs) on lower petals
- stem leaves opposite, clasping, like little boats
Penstemon procerus / littleflower penstemon
- low growing in exposed, undisturbed habitats
- tight cluster/whorls of small purple/blue/pink flowers
- tubular flowers, with lips around opening
Penstemon rydbergii / Rydberg’s penstemon
- small, blue/purple tubular flowers in leafy whorls
- flowers lack glands or hairs
- basal rosette of bright green, spoon-shaped leaves without glands or hairs
- stem leaves are lanceolate, around flower clusters
- wetter areas, but also along Victor/Driggs bike path