spring

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  • Eremogone congesta / sandwort

    • very small (teeny) white flowers in a ball-like arrangement
    • tufts of pointy-tipped needle-like leaves 3" or less long
    • cushion plant
    • dry, rocky or sandy soils, rock crevices

  • 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 capitatum / western wallflower

    • yellow (usually) 4-petaled flowers at top of stem
    • inflorescence may be as big as a baseball, and round
    • mostly basal rosette of leaves
    • cauline leaves narrow with small teeth
    • siliques horizontal to nearly vertical; relatively long
    • variety of habitats, but not wetlands

  • Erythranthe guttata / seep monkeyflower

    • yellow flowers with red spots in clumps of 5 or more
    • flowers large for the plant, but otherwise "normal" size
    • two "lips" - lower lip larger than upper, each with 2 petals
    • found in wetlands of all kinds

  • Erythronium grandiflorum / glacier lily

    • striking, yellow, six tepals - recurved and nodding
    • large, yellow or red anthers, a single pistil
    • two large green basal leaves
    • early spring

  • Festuca idahoensis / Idaho fescue

    • a bunchgrass growing in very dense clumps
    • over-winters green; an early green grass in spring
    • green to blue-green to silvery green leaves
    • individual flowers in clusters of hairy spikelets on branched panicles; very dark purple or green
    • seeds have large spines (awns) at the tips

  • Fragaria vesca / woodland strawberry

    • trifoliate, light green markedly toothed leaves
    • clusters of hairy, 5-petaled white flowers on a soft-hairy stem
    • plants spread by stolons
    • fruit (if any) red with bumps where the seeds are
    • spring/early summer bloom
    • widespread

  • Frasera speciosa / monument plant

    • striking, 4 petal flowers - green and white with purple flecks
    • flowers held close in to stem
    • tall flowering stalk (to chest high) from a base of large, elongated rosette leaves

  • Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary

    • uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
    • six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
    • six bright yellow anthers
    • few, grass-like leaves
    • usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest

  • Geum triflorum / prairie smoke

    • among the earliest bloomers in the spring
    • clusters of nodding reddish, pink, maroon or purple flowers
    • flowers in groups of 3
    • distinctive fruit - like silvery-pink or mauve "troll dolls"
    • in large populations, fruiting plants look (sort of)  like smoke

  • Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed

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