alpine

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  • Bistorta bistortoides / American bistort

    • rocky areas, tundra/alpine
    • inflorescence a 2" dense cylinder with many teeny white flowers
    • notable protruding stamens
    • leaves basal, long/thin and leathery

  • 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

  • Gagea serotina / Snowdon lily

  • Heuchera parvifolia / littleleaf alumroot

    • subalpine, alpine... on rocks
    • clusters of round or kidney-shaped leaves
    • leaves lobed, all basal (no stem leaves)
    • inflorescences tower over leaves
    • clumps of teeny, yellow flowers along a spike-like flowering stalk

  • Ivesia gordonii / Gordon’s mousetail

    • subalpine to alpine
    • low, on shallow, rocky soils
    • individual stalks are leaves with ~20 overlapping lobes
    • clusters of teeny yellow flowers on naked stems

  • Parnassia fimbriata / fringed grass of Parnassus

    • ca. 1" flower with obviously fringed, white petals
    • flowers look very "complicated"
    • thick, rounded basal leaves
    • usually in wet places, but also alpine on rocks

  • Pedicularis contorta / curved-beak lousewort

    • alpine and subalpine habitats
    • fern-like leaves at base
    • tall, spikey inflorescence
    • white flowers with coiled upper beak and flat, 3-lobed lower lip

  • Pinus albicaulis / whitebark pine

    • high altitude - subalpine to alpine; cold, windy sites
    • five needles in tight fasicles
    • brown to purple cones at top of tree; cones don't open
    • scaly grayish bark

  • Ranunculus adoneus / alpine buttercup

    • short, high altitude plant
    • rocks or moist meadows
    • yellow "buttercuppy" flowers, 5-10 petals
    • huge numbers of stigmas
    • highly lobed, finely dissected leaves

  • Sabulina nuttallii / Nuttall’s sandwort

    • small, glandular-pubescent perennial
    • trailing stems form mats
    • thin, rigid, needle-like leaves, about ½" long
    • small, white, 5-petaled flowers in terminal clusters
    • 5 green, pointy sepals
    • sagebrush hills to alpine slopes, and especially on gravelly benches or talus

  • Salix glauca / grayleaf willow

    • very low-growing shrub at high altitude (alpine/subalpine)
    • rounded to lance-shaped leaves; smooth below
    • large-ish catkin inflorescences

  • Solidago multiradiata / alpine goldenrod

    • the only (?) goldenrod at alpine altitudes
    • clusters of 5-100 small, yellow composite flowers with a dozen-ish rays and 3 doz disc florets
    • medium green lance/spoon shaped leaves, bigger at base of the plants; toothed/hairy edges

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