July

  • Opuntia polyacantha / starvation cactus

    Opuntia polyacantha / starvation cactus

    • yellow or peach, complex, many-petaled flowers
    • large globose, pointed buds with reddish scales
    • cactus pads with long or short spines and nasty glochids
  • Orthilia secunda / sidebell wintergreen

    Orthilia secunda / sidebell wintergreen

    • evergreen herb or sub-shrub
    • boggy understory and forest stream banks
    • basal, egg-shaped leaves with prominent veins
    • very small to teeny creamy or green-ish flowers all on one side of stem
  • Ozomelis stauropetala / side-flowered mitrewort

    Ozomelis stauropetala / side-flowered mitrewort

    • teeny, white, star-like flowers spaced out on one side of a leafless stem
    • basal leaves, slightly lobed
    • understory in moist woods
  • Packera cana / woolly groundsel

    Packera cana / woolly groundsel

    • yellow, daisy-like blossoms with 8-13 ray florets ("petals")
    • golden, central disks
    • blossoms in flat-topped clusters of up to 15
    • mostly basal leaves - unlobed, hairy, ovate, up to 2 inches long
    • overall silvery appearance
  • Packera multilobata / lobeleaf groundsel

    Packera multilobata / lobeleaf groundsel

    • deeply lobed leaves, mostly at the base of the plant
    • bright yellow daisy-like flowers, 10-30 in a cluster per plant
    • orange-yellow disk florets
    • woodlands, foothills, and generally dry/ sandy/ rocky places.
  • Packera pseudaurea / falsegold groundsel

    Packera pseudaurea / falsegold groundsel

    • yellow, flat-topped cluster of daisy-like flowers
    • oval, erect basal leaves with long petioles and round/blunt-toothed edges
    • generally in moist to wet habitats
  • Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel

    Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel

    • yellow-flowered composite; "flowers" on branched inflorescence
    • 8-13 half-inch ray florets, usually spaced apart
    • thick, spatula-shaped basal leaves without teeth or clefts
    • thin, often deeply lobed stem leaves
    • dry woodlands and rocky places
  • Parnassia fimbriata / fringed grass of Parnassus

    Parnassia fimbriata / fringed grass of Parnassus

    • ca. 1" flower with obviously fringed, white petals
    • flowers look very "complicated"
    • thick, rounded basal leaves
    • usually in wet places, but also alpine on rocks
  • Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort

    Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort

    • dense, narrow inflorescence on upper half of stem
    • yellow, beak-like flowers with upper and lower lips
    • flowers from bottom to top
    • conspicuous, fern-like leaves
    • old flowers become light brown but remain on stalk
  • Pedicularis racemosa / leafy lousewort

    Pedicularis racemosa / leafy lousewort

    • clumps of plants with maroon stems in forest understory
    • white to pink flowers in upper leaf axils
    • flowers have beak-like upper lip and wide three-lobed lower lip
    • leaves narrow and tapering, slightly serrate, maroon when young
  • Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon

    Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon

    • two-toned totally tubular flower (blue and pink-ish)
    • early spring to at least mid-summer
    • widespread in low disturbance habitats - even when rocky and "bare"
  • Penstemon eatonii / firecracker penstemon

    Penstemon eatonii / firecracker penstemon

    • roadsides, especially revegetated by DOT
    • 2" brilliantly red, tubular flowers
    • mostly basal leaves, ovate to lanceolate, leathery