highly visible

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  • Eriophorum angustifolium / narrow-leaved cottongrass

    • limited to bogs/fens with standing water
    • "just a pointy-leaved plant" until the fruit develops
    • fruits are big white, cotton-like tufts

  • Erythranthe guttata / seep monkeyflower

    • yellow flowers with red spots in clumps of 5 or more
    • flowers large for the plant, but otherwise "normal" size
    • two "lips" - lower lip larger than upper, each with 2 petals
    • found in wetlands of all kinds

  • 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

  • Helianthella uniflora / little sunflower

    • short (for a sunflower)
    • a single yellow, sun flower at the top of a hairy stem
    • flowers are only 2-3 inches across
    • leaves generally opposite with 3 prominent veins
    • exposed on hillsides; shallow, but well-drained soil

  • 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

  • Heliomeris multiflora / showy goldeneye

    • a "Doggone" Yellow Composite (DYC) with 5-14 ray florets; golden dome of disc florets
    • multi-stemmed perennial forms clumps
    • often seen in profusion (but not always)
    • long, thin, lanceolate to linear leaves; maybe with a few small teeth along the edges
    • leaves have a strong midrib vein and distinct side veins

  • Heracleum maximum / cow parsnip

    • very tall - stands above most other herbs and forbs
    • huge leaves with clasping sheaths at the stem junction
    • leaves lobed and like a very large maple
    • huge flat umbels with white flowers
    • grooved, woolly, stout stem

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