late summer

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Gaillardia aristata / common blanketflower
- bright red petals with yellow tips, or yellow petals the whole way
- reddish brown central disk
- attractive yellow seed balls with tufts of red hair all over
- leathery, slightly hairy leaves
Galium borealis / northern bedstraw
- teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
- two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
- linear leaves - like rosemary
- smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws
Gentian affinis / pleated gentian
- brilliantly blue, funnel-shaped flowers
- petals (lobes) pointed, joined by ragged plaits
- flowers in clumps or singly at tops of stems
- leaves lanceolate and opposite on square stems.
- found in a variety of wet sites
Gentiana calycosa / explorer’s gentian
- opposite, sessile leaves on unbranched stems; clonal
- deep blue funnel-shaped flowers with white throats and yellow spots
- 5 pointed petals with fringed pleats between them
- in wetter areas at higher elevations
Geranium richardsonii / Richardson’s geranium
- white, or sometimes pink-ish, flowers
- non-sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
Geranium viscossisimum / sticky geranium
- mauve to pink to red to white flowers
- sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
Geum macrophyllum / largeleaf avens
- yellow, 5-petaled flowers; not glossy
- many long styles in green center
- fruits look like little marbles covered with red velcro
- fruits and flowers present at the same time
- deeply divided, sessile leaves on flowering stems
Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed
- small-ish yellow flowers
- button-like buds
- attractively compact, globe-shaped plant
Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed
Hackelia micrantha / Jessica sticktight
- teeny blue flowers with yellow/white centers
- flowers appear singly or in groups above developing fruit
- inflorescence mostly on one side of the stem
- lower leaves long and narrow; upper leaves fewer and sessile
- fruit a pointy and tenacious nutlet
Hackelia spp. / stickseeds in general
- very small blue flowers
- inflorescence elongates with single flower at top
- more and more branches through the season
- nasty stickseed fruits mature below apex
Hedysarum occidentale / western sweetvetch
- tall legume with hot pink flowers
- inflorescence several inches long; up to 80 flowers
- pinnately compound leaves with 9-21, inch-long leaflets
- higher elevations on drier, more rocky soils