drought tolerant

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Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard
- another stupid yellow crucifer
- erect stem, up to 30 inches
- deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
- often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils
Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink
- PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
- Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
- Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
- Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils
Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass
- teeny, often silvery plant with teeny yellow 4-petal flowers
- rosette leaves have trichomes even when not really silvery
- annual ephemeral seen soon after snowmelt
- usually exposed near or on rocks, dry slopes
- flat, elliptical seed capsules
Drymocallis arguta / tall cinquefoil
- yellow flowers, 5 petals with pointy green sepals between
- many stamens; central disk of yellow pistils
- flowers in clusters with short stems (cyme)
- most leaves basal - pinnately compound, coarsely toothed, obovate
- many soil types, but not overly moist
Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass
- cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
- flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
- flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
- beautifully straw colored in fall
- common but rarely abundant; many habitats
Equisetum arvense / field horsetail
- segmented brown stems with spore-bearing "cone" at the tip
- or - segmented green stem with thin green branches radiating from nodes
- distinctly visible nodes along the stems
- no leaves or flowers
- found in many different habitats
Eremogene kingii / King’s sandwort
- low-growing herb with long, thin basal leaf clusters
- white, 5-petaled flowers, ca. 1/2 in across, in terminal clusters
- 10 stamens, sometimes dark, sometimes white
- at higher elevations on shallow soil
Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush
- golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
- small 5-petaled flowers
- widespread shrub
- very narrow, linear leaves
- white sticky sap ("rubber")
Erigeron compositus / cutleaf fleabane
- "obviously" a daisy - white "petals" (ray florets), yellow center (disk florets)
- flowers ca. 1" diameter
- flowers grow above hairy leaf mat
- early spring - soon after snowmelt
- rocky areas amongst sagebrush
Erigeron divergens / spreading fleabane
- very small aster with many ray florets (petals)
- flowering stems have as many as 100 very small flowers
- leaves are hairy
- highly drought tolerant
Erigeron speciosus / aspen fleabane
- prolific purple-ish flowers with many "petals" and a yellow center
- forest openings and edges, meadows
- late blooming - a "fall aster"
Eriogonom spp. / wild buckwheat
- short, with small leaves close to the ground
- leaves persistent in winter, green and red
- blossoms - cute little buttons that look like dried flowers; long-lasting
- inflorescence - umbel or compound umbel
- may be white, cream, yellow, pink, red; changeable with age