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Ribes lacustre / prickly currant
- deeply lobed, maple-like leaves
- prickly stems with spines at nodes
- shrub to ca. 4 feet tall
- teeny cream & purple flowers in dangling clusters in spring
- red berries in late summer maturing to very small black berries
Ribes viscosissimum / sticky currant
- shrub to 7 feet tall
- stem and leaves covered with sticky, glandular hairs
- white, bell-like flowers in drooping or erect clusters (up to 15)
- rough leaves, 3-5 equal lobes, toothed margins
- fragrant flowers and leaves
Rosa spp. / wild rose
- deep red (to pink) flowers; wonderfully fragrant
- understory shrub in wetter areas
- flowers mid-summer
Rubus parviflorus / thimbleberry
- raspberry-like shrub usually in a clump
- white flowers with many stamens, up to 2.5 inches diameter
- large, fuzzy maple-like leaves
- blooms in spring; red, raspberry-like fruit in the fall
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
Rumex acetosella / sheep sorrel
- long, vertical inflorescences... not compact or well "organized"
- female plants with red/maroon flowers; males with green/white flowers
- especially visible when seeds are ripe... red
- basal rosette of arrowhead shaped leaves
- disturbed areas, wastelands, poor sites
Rumex crispus / curly dock
- rather large, lance-shaped leaves
- curly leaf margins, like crisped bacon or "crinkly-wavy"
- tall flowering stalks with many, many small yellow/green-ish flowers
- fruits are just like the flowers but deep red
- widespread and very much a weed
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
Salix glauca / grayleaf willow
- very low-growing shrub at high altitude (alpine/subalpine)
- rounded to lance-shaped leaves; smooth below
- large-ish catkin inflorescences
Sambucus nigra / common elderberry
- shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
- leaves opposite
- pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
- flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
- "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature
Scrophularia lanceolate / lanceleaf figwort
- teeny, snapdragon-like flowers
- flowers urn-shaped with yellow with red or green on the outside
- flowers look like they aren't yet opened
- flowers on elongated panicle at the top of a tall-ish plant
- opposite leaves like stinging nettle without the stingers
- up to 5 feet tall in full sun/partial shade
Scutellaria galericulata / marsh skullcap
- riparian zones and wetlands
- blue, trumpet shaped (legume) flowers; usually in pairs on same side of a stem
- flowers not at the top of the stems
- square stems, widely spaced opposite leaves; adjacent pairs at right angles