July

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Crepis acuminata / tapertip hawksbeard
- leaves (diagnostic) - long; many deep triangular, pointed lobes; upright, grey-green; milky sap
- flowers - 5-10 rays, no disc florets; yellow; up to 70 per plant
- dry, open places in foothills; commonly with sagebrush
Cynoglossum officinale / houndstongue
- reddish-purple flowers in upper leaf axils
- forms basal rosette with hairy leaves in first year
- stem leaves lance shaped, hairy, rough
- fruit - small nutlets with barbs or hooks
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