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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
Phlox diffusa / spreading phlox
- low, spreading, moss-like (before blooming)
- flowers 5-petaled, a variety of colors, and with a tube below the petals
- many habitat types incl. mountain slopes, rocky terrain, dry forests or with sagebrush
- blooms in early spring to early summer
- confusable with P. hoodii
Potentilla fruticosa / shrubby cinquefoil
- low, deciduous, shrub; wetlands and riparian zones
- yellow buttercup-like flowers with 5 leaflets, often in clusters
- blooms from June until frost
- pinnately compound leaves, typically with 5 leaflets
- fruit (achene) remains into winter
Primula parryi / Parry’s primrose
- striking, bright magenta (or pink) flowers with yellow centers, 5 petals
- 3 to 30 flowers per stalk
- brilliant green foliage as a rosette
- foliage releases horrible smell with the slightest touch
- typically at higher altitudes in wet places
Rosa spp. / wild rose
- deep red (to pink) flowers; wonderfully fragrant
- understory shrub in wetter areas
- flowers mid-summer
Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage
- alpine or subalpine
- on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
- glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
- teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
- blooms in August at high altitudes
Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
Veratrum californicum / California false hellebore
- huge inflorescence covered with one-inch-plus flowers
- six white tepals with green centers
- moist areas, possibly very dense stands
- foot-long, heavily veined, pleated bright green leaves
Wyethia helianthoides / white mule’s ears
- large, white-rayed flowers - like daisies
- large leaves, reminiscent of mule's ears
- uncommon but in huge profusion when it is found
- in wetlands or wetter meadows and especially in the spring.