Plants in the Valley

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  • Dodecatheon pulchellum / shooting star

    • five pink to lavender lobes projecting backwards
    • white or yellow petal bases above a squiggly purple ring
    • anthers joined into a projecting point; stigma projecting past the point
    • snowmelt to early spring
    • wet meadows to sagebrush communities

  • Doellingeria engelmannii / Engelmann’s aster

    • shade tolerant - in mountain woods and meadows
    • late summer/autumn blooming
    • each blossom/flower has only a few curly rays around a yellow disk
    • ray florets mostly white, but possibly pink or blue
    • ovate leaves, mostly hairless and sessile; prominent veins.

  • 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 arguta / tall cinquefoil

    • yellow flowers, 5 petals with pointy green sepals between
    • many stamens; central disk of yellow pistils
    • flowers in clusters with short stems (cyme)
    • most leaves basal - pinnately compound, coarsely toothed, obovate
    • many soil types, but not overly moist

  • 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)

  • Elodea canadensis / Elodea

    • submerged with a stem and whorls of small, oblong leaves
    • usually has 3 leaves per node
    • leaf whorls denser near the growing tips
    • stems may be quite long or floating as fragmented bits

  • Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass

    • cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
    • flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
    • flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
    • beautifully straw colored in fall
    • common but rarely abundant; many habitats

  • Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed

    • small flowers... pink to purple to white
    • four, very deeply notched petals
    • narrow, very long fruit; downy seeds

  • Equisetum arvense / field horsetail

    • segmented brown stems with spore-bearing "cone" at the tip
    • or - segmented green stem with thin green branches radiating from nodes
    • distinctly visible nodes along the stems
    • no leaves or flowers
    • found in many different habitats

  • Equisetum hyemale / rough horsetail

    • thin green stems with black bands; no branches
    • possible cone-like structure at the apex
    • usually in large colonies
    • prefers continuously moist soils

  • Eremogene kingii / King’s sandwort

    • low-growing herb with long, thin basal leaf clusters
    • white, 5-petaled flowers, ca. 1/2 in across, in terminal clusters
    • 10 stamens, sometimes dark, sometimes white
    • at higher elevations on shallow soil

  • Eremogone congesta / sandwort

    • very small (teeny) white flowers in a ball-like arrangement
    • tufts of pointy-tipped needle-like leaves 3" or less long
    • cushion plant
    • dry, rocky or sandy soils, rock crevices

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