late summer

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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
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.
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
Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush
- golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
- small 5-petaled flowers
- widespread shrub
- very narrow, linear leaves
- white sticky sap ("rubber")
Erigeron speciosus / aspen fleabane
- prolific purple-ish flowers with many "petals" and a yellow center
- forest openings and edges, meadows
- late blooming - a "fall aster"
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
Eriophorum angustifolium / narrow-leaved cottongrass
- limited to bogs/fens with standing water
- "just a pointy-leaved plant" until the fruit develops
- fruits are big white, cotton-like tufts
Erysimum asperum / prairie-rocket wallflower
- yellow flowers, large for a crucifer
- flowers in clusters above foliage
- oval/elliptical leaves, to 4" long... hairy
- long thin fruit pod (silique) perpendicular to stem, may curve upward