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  • Erythranthe lewisii / Lewis’s monkeyflower

    • pink to magenta with floral tube, two lips and yellow nectar guides
    • usually stream-side in dense clumps
    • striking

  • Erythronium grandiflorum / glacier lily

    • striking, yellow, six tepals - recurved and nodding
    • large, yellow or red anthers, a single pistil
    • two large green basal leaves
    • early spring

  • Frasera speciosa / monument plant

    • striking, 4 petal flowers - green and white with purple flecks
    • flowers held close in to stem
    • tall flowering stalk (to chest high) from a base of large, elongated rosette leaves

  • 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

  • Hedysarum occidentale / western sweetvetch

    • tall legume with hot pink flowers
    • inflorescence several inches long; up to 80 flowers
    • pinnately compound leaves with 9-21, inch-long leaflets
    • higher elevations on drier, more rocky soils

  • Helianthus annuus / sunflower

    • tall with big, drooping leaves (up to 15x15 inches)
    • large sunflower like flowers - yellow petals, darker disk
    • disturbed edges and waste areas, roadsides, near crops

  • Iliamna rivularis / streambank globemallow

    • showy, pink flowers, sometimes rose or nearly white
    • tall, up to 6 feet
    • large, broadly "heart-shaped" leaves with big, triangular lobes

  • Iris missouriensis / western blue flag iris

    • wetland monocot - long leaves, parallel veins
    • large blue flower with yellow "signal" stripe, purple veins
    • 3 petals, 3 sepals make up the flower
    • blooms in spring
    • "like a domestic iris on a diet"

  • Leucanthemum vulgare / oxeye daisy

    • bright, white "petals", 2-3" across; yellow centers
    • s/he loves me, s/he loves me not
    • glossy green, spoon-shaped leaves in a 2 foot dome
    • may form large colonies
    • potentially wide spread

  • Lupinus spp. / silvery and silky lupins

    • palmately compound, usually silvery-green leaves
    • 5-9 leaflets per leaf; long petioles
    • flowers on long, spikey racemes, blooming from bottom upward
    • numerous flowers, but all rather teeny; most purple or blue
    • flowers are above the leaves
    • seeds in short, hairy pods

  • 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

  • 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

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