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  • Calochortus nuttallii / sego lily

    • 3 large white petals
    • purple spots that border yellow glands
    • tangle of hairs (a "beard") at the base of the petals
    • but... very variable arrangement of spots, hairs etc.
    • rocky, exposed sites

  • Campanula rotundifolia / American harebell

    • blue or blue-ish bell-shaped flower
    • fused petals with pointy ends make the bell
    • exudes white latex when wounded

  • Castilleja covilleana / Rocky Mountain paintbrush

    • clearly, one of the "Indian paintbrushes"
    • early bloomer in the spring, even when quite short
    • bright red, orange (sometimes yellow) bracts
    • bracts and leaves have 3-7 deep lobes with long, soft hairs
    • often grows in clusters

  • Castilleja linariifolia / Wyoming Indian paintbrush

    • generally taller than most paintbrushes (up to 3 feet)
    • very thin leaves, seldom lobed, seldom hairy
    • red inflorescence bracts, may be lobed
    • flowers extend well beyond bracts
    • calyx is red and shorter than the corolla which is greenish yellow
    • rocky areas with sagebrush and conifer forests

  • Castilleja spp. / two yellow paintbrushes

    • look like Indian paintbrushes (which they are), but yellow
    • inflorescence bracts possibly lobed
    • height ranges from less than 8" to about 15"
    • subalpine, alpine and tundra habitats, in clumps or spread out
    • linear leaves without lobes, 3 prominent veins
    • red to maroon, hairy stems

  • Chaenactis douglasii / Douglas dusty maiden

    • leaves "woolly" or hairy; intricately divided
    • leaf and lobe tips curled or twisted
    • flowering stems coated with "cobwebby" hairs
    • flower heads of white/pinkish tubular disk florets in a glandular cup
    • forked styles protrude past tubes
    • often in rocky areas and crevices

  • Collinsia parviflora / maiden blue-eyed Mary

    • inconspicuous
    • teeny blue and white flowers, singly or in small clusters
    • reddish stems and buds more visible than the flowers
    • wide variety of habitats, bare rocks to marshy fens

  • Corydalis aurea / scrambled eggs

    • prostrate herb, up to 15" tall
    • moist but well-drained soils, including on roadsides
    • yellow tubular flowers, with spurs
    • highly dissected leaves, blue-grey except when young
    • fruits are pod-like, resembling peas or beans

  • Delphinium nuttallianum / upland larkspur

    • Bright blue flowers, sometimes whitish or other color petals in center
    • One or several flowers per stalk
    • Long spur "behind" the flower
    • Leaves mostly low on the stem - divided into several or many lobes
    • Open meadows, near streams, with sagebrush, any elevation
    • Beginning soon after snowmelt and sometime persisting into September

  • Dicentra uniflora / steer’s head

    • looks like a very small, peach-colored long-horned steer's skull
    • leaves are 3-fold compound; leaflets deeply divided
    • leaves and flowers appear to be separate plants
    • on rocky, vernally-moist slopes right at snowmelt
    • considered hard to find but not rare

  • 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 glandulosa / sticky cinquefoil

    • deeply lobed (almost compound) leaves (3-5 lobes)
    • clusters of cream or white 5-petaled flowers
    • pointy green sepals visible between non-overlapping petals
    • ≥25 stamens
    • sticky stems, involucres and buds (glandular hairs)

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