rocky areas
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Castilleja linariifolia / Wyoming Indian paintbrush
- generally taller than most paintbrushes (up to 3 feet)
- very thin leaves, seldom lobed, seldom hairy
- red inflorescence bracts, may be lobed
- flowers extend well beyond bracts
- calyx is red and shorter than the corolla which is greenish yellow
- rocky areas with sagebrush and conifer forests
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Castilleja spp. / two yellow paintbrushes
- look like Indian paintbrushes (which they are), but yellow
- inflorescence bracts possibly lobed
- height ranges from less than 8" to about 15"
- subalpine, alpine and tundra habitats, in clumps or spread out
- linear leaves without lobes, 3 prominent veins
- red to maroon, hairy stems
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Cercocarpus ledifolius / curl-leaf mountain mahogany
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Chaenactis douglasii / Douglas dusty maiden
- leaves "woolly" or hairy; intricately divided
- leaf and lobe tips curled or twisted
- flowering stems coated with "cobwebby" hairs
- flower heads of white/pinkish tubular disk florets in a glandular cup
- forked styles protrude past tubes
- often in rocky areas and crevices
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Comandra umbellata / bastard toadflax
- teeny, funnel-shaped white-ish flowers in clusters
- small plants, thick-ish, pointy stem leaves; more oval basal leaves
- clonal - may colonize large areas
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Dicentra uniflora / steer’s head
- looks like a very small, peach-colored long-horned steer's skull
- leaves are 3-fold compound; leaflets deeply divided
- leaves and flowers appear to be separate plants
- on rocky, vernally-moist slopes right at snowmelt
- considered hard to find but not rare
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Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass
- teeny, often silvery plant with teeny yellow 4-petal flowers
- rosette leaves have trichomes even when not really silvery
- annual ephemeral seen soon after snowmelt
- usually exposed near or on rocks, dry slopes
- flat, elliptical seed capsules
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Drymocallis glandulosa / sticky cinquefoil
- deeply lobed (almost compound) leaves (3-5 lobes)
- clusters of cream or white 5-petaled flowers
- pointy green sepals visible between non-overlapping petals
- ≥25 stamens
- sticky stems, involucres and buds (glandular hairs)
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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
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Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush
- golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
- small 5-petaled flowers
- widespread shrub
- very narrow, linear leaves
- white sticky sap ("rubber")
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Erigeron compositus / cutleaf fleabane
- "obviously" a daisy - white "petals" (ray florets), yellow center (disk florets)
- flowers ca. 1" diameter
- flowers grow above hairy leaf mat
- early spring - soon after snowmelt
- rocky areas amongst sagebrush
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