LSRP

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Anaphalis margaritacea / pearly everlasting
- hairy leaves and stems, often in dense colonies
- inflorescences dominated by white involucral bracts
- actual flowers are small, yellow and in the center
- commonly on dry soils
- great for dried flower arrangements
Antennaria racemosa / Hooker’s pussytoes
- ground-level matte or short stems
- basal leaves
- small clumps/racemes of male or female flowers
- teeny white flowers with white involucres
- moist forest understories
Aphyllon franciscanum / yellow-clustered broomrape
- tubular yellow, 5 petalled flowers
- short (6")
- no leaves at all, ever
- very hairy stems and flowers
- parasitic, especially on buckwheats
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
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
Hieracium albiflorum / white hawkweed
- white, dandelion-like flower; up to 50 per plant
- 6-25 florets
- square-end petals each with 4 small notches
- hairy stems and basal leaves
- shady openings in dry forests
Hieracium aurantiaca / orange hawkweed
- orange dandelion-like flower
- petals square ended with small notches
- hairy leaves, stems and involucres
- found in many habitats, sometimes in excess
Hieracium scouleri / western hawkweed
- dandelion-like yellow flower heads
- square-ended petals; long stamens with split ends
- central yellow "button"
- hairy all over, especially on leaves and lower stem
- blooms all summer
Hypericum perforatum / St. John’s wort
- bright yellow, 5-petaled flowers
- many stamens sticking out every which way
- sizable black and/or white glands on leaves and petals
- waist high and grows in large colonies (invasive)
- not (yet) seen west of the Tetons
Penstemon procerus / littleflower penstemon
- low growing in exposed, undisturbed habitats
- tight cluster/whorls of small purple/blue/pink flowers
- tubular flowers, with lips around opening
Populus angustifolia / narrow-leaf poplar
- a riparian tree also planted for landscaping
- long, narrow leaves with serrated edges
- furrowed, grey bark on mature trees; smooth and yellow-ish on young trees
- flowers are small, grey catkins in very early spring
- fruits are fluffy white cotton in early-mid summer
Populus trichocarpa / black cottonwood
- conical tree
- heart or arrow-head shaped leaves; pointy tips
- inflorescences are red or brownish catkins in early spring
- cotton-y fruits disperse in early summer