forest gaps

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  • Actaea rubra / red baneberry

    • large, coarsely toothed, deeply lobed compound leaves
    • clusters of teeny white flowers that look feathery or fluffy (due to stamens)
    • green berries in late summer, maturing to red or white
    • black dot at tip of each berry
    • moist understory or shade

  • Allium geyeri / Geyer’s onion

    • smells like onions
    • magenta (occasionally white) flowers on ca. 15 inch stem
    • each flower urn-shaped with flared, pointy tips; yellow anthers
    • leaves persistent during flowering
    • rocky slopes in brush and pines, sometimes in dense stands

  • Antennaria racemosa / Hooker’s pussytoes

    • ground-level matte or short stems
    • basal leaves
    • small clumps/racemes of male or female flowers
    • teeny white flowers with white involucres
    • moist forest understories

  • Apocynum cannabinum / common dogbane

    • herbaceous perennial with red stems and long/narrow leaves
    • leaves have prominent veins
    • leaves and stems exude white latex if broken
    • white, bell-shaped flowers held erect in stalked clusters
    • seedpods long, thin and brownish; in pairs
    • often near streams or in moist places

  • Artemisia cana / silver sagebrush

    • Low perennial, silvery shrub
    • Highly aromatic, like sagebrush
    • Entire leaves - no lobes
    • Nondescript, inconspicuous flowers in small clusters with leaf-like bracts
    • Grows in more moist habitat than other Artemisia spp.

  • Chimaphila umbellata / pipsissewa

    • small herb/forb
    • shiny, toothed lance point leaves
    • half-inch, pink and white, upside down flowers
    • flowers in umbel like cluster
    • flowers with minimally visible style

  • 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

  • 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"

  • 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

  • Hieracium albiflorum / white hawkweed

    • white, dandelion-like flower; up to 50 per plant
    • 6-25 florets
    • square-end petals each with 4 small notches
    • hairy stems and basal leaves
    • shady openings in dry forests

  • Hydrophyllum capitatum / ballhead waterleaf

    • leaves to 10" tall, deeply lobed (7-11 lobes)
    • globe of purple-blue-white flowers below the leaves or at ground level
    • flowers are fuzzy while still in bud
    • rocky, shady, seasonally moist sites

  • Hypericum perforatum / St. John’s wort

    • bright yellow, 5-petaled flowers
    • many stamens sticking out every which way
    • sizable black and/or white glands on leaves and petals
    • waist high and grows in large colonies (invasive)
    • not (yet) seen west of the Tetons

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