Plants in the Valley

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Erysimum capitatum / western wallflower
- yellow (usually) 4-petaled flowers at top of stem
- inflorescence may be as big as a baseball, and round
- mostly basal rosette of leaves
- cauline leaves narrow with small teeth
- siliques horizontal to nearly vertical; relatively long
- variety of habitats, but not wetlands
Erysimum cheiranthoides / wormseed wallflower
- yellow, 4-petaled flower, less than 1/3 inch across
- lance shaped or elliptical, sessile leaves varying little in size or shape
- leaf margins entire or coarsely toothed
- ribbed stems
- ascending or erect siliques with short pedicels
- disturbed and waste areas
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
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
Festuca idahoensis / Idaho fescue
- a bunchgrass growing in very dense clumps
- over-winters green; an early green grass in spring
- green to blue-green to silvery green leaves
- individual flowers in clusters of hairy spikelets on branched panicles; very dark purple or green
- seeds have large spines (awns) at the tips
Fragaria vesca / woodland strawberry
- trifoliate, light green markedly toothed leaves
- clusters of hairy, 5-petaled white flowers on a soft-hairy stem
- plants spread by stolons
- fruit (if any) red with bumps where the seeds are
- spring/early summer bloom
- widespread
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
Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary
- uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
- six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
- six bright yellow anthers
- few, grass-like leaves
- usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest
Fritillaria pudica / yellow fritillary
- small, lovely, unprepossessing lily
- a few, long, narrow leaves
- a single (or two) yellow, bell-shaped flower
- flowers turn brick red as they age
- blooms just after snowmelt and disappears quickly
Gagea serotina / Snowdon lily