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

  • Vaccinium membranaceum / thinleaf huckleberry

    • understory shrub, locally dominant
    • oval, alternate leaves
    • very small white/pink urn-shaped flowers
    • flowers in axils on red/yellow new growth
    • fruit - a bluish/purple to black, ¼" berry
    Also known as: tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, black huckleberry

  • Veronica officinalis / heath speedwell

    • prostrate, herbaceous perennial
    • hairy green stems and leaves (obvious)
    • short, erect, spike-like shoots
    • ¼" blue/violet flowers
    • 4 petals with purple stripes
    • gaps and exposed soils

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