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Erysimum asperum / prairie-rocket wallflower
- yellow flowers, large for a crucifer
- flowers in clusters above foliage
- oval/elliptical leaves, to 4" long... hairy
- long thin fruit pod (silique) perpendicular to stem, may curve upward
Erysimum capitatum / western wallflower
- yellow (usually) 4-petaled flowers at top of stem
- inflorescence may be as big as a baseball, and round
- mostly basal rosette of leaves
- cauline leaves narrow with small teeth
- siliques horizontal to nearly vertical; relatively long
- variety of habitats, but not wetlands
Erythranthe lewisii / Lewis’s monkeyflower
- pink to magenta with floral tube, two lips and yellow nectar guides
- usually stream-side in dense clumps
- striking
Eurybia integrifolia / thickstem aster
- purple composite with 10-20 ray florets
- entire, elongated leaves with short or no petioles
- exposed areas, mountain slopes, dry meadows, roadsides
- flowers in late summer and into September
Festuca idahoensis / Idaho fescue
- a bunchgrass growing in very dense clumps
- over-winters green; an early green grass in spring
- green to blue-green to silvery green leaves
- individual flowers in clusters of hairy spikelets on branched panicles; very dark purple or green
- seeds have large spines (awns) at the tips
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
Fritillaria pudica / yellow fritillary
- small, lovely, unprepossessing lily
- a few, long, narrow leaves
- a single (or two) yellow, bell-shaped flower
- flowers turn brick red as they age
- blooms just after snowmelt and disappears quickly
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
Geranium richardsonii / Richardson’s geranium
- white, or sometimes pink-ish, flowers
- non-sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
Geranium viscossisimum / sticky geranium
- mauve to pink to red to white flowers
- sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed
- small-ish yellow flowers
- button-like buds
- attractively compact, globe-shaped plant
Hackelia micrantha / Jessica sticktight
- teeny blue flowers with yellow/white centers
- flowers appear singly or in groups above developing fruit
- inflorescence mostly on one side of the stem
- lower leaves long and narrow; upper leaves fewer and sessile
- fruit a pointy and tenacious nutlet