July

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  • Dactylis glomerata / orchardgrass

    • perennial bunchgrass
    • branched inflorescence with lowest branch well below the others
    • spikelets wedge-shaped, flattened in tight clusters
    • florets green to red/purple tinged; grey-brown when seeds mature
    • introduced and widespread, but not in wet areas

  • Delphinium x occidentale / tall larkspur

    • white with blue center, long white spur (tail) out the back
    • flowers on tall racemes, up to 6 feet - more than 50 per stalk
    • highly divided/lobed leaves
    • flowers look a lot like garden larkspurs

  • Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard

    • another stupid yellow crucifer
    • erect stem, up to 30 inches
    • deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
    • often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils

  • Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    • PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
    • Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
    • Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
    • Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils

  • 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

  • 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 capillaris / fescue sandwort

    • five petals, white, in clusters of ca. 3 flowers per stalk
    • prominent stamens with large anthers
    • grass-like (fescue-like) opposite leaves
    • in clumps or mats, in rock cracks and rocky meadows
    • alpine and subalpine

  • Eriogonom spp. / wild buckwheat

    • short, with small leaves close to the ground
    • leaves persistent in winter, green and red
    • blossoms - cute little buttons that look like dried flowers; long-lasting
    • inflorescence - umbel or compound umbel
    • may be white, cream, yellow, pink, red; changeable with age

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