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  • Agoseris aurantiaca / orange mountain dandelion

    • unusual burnt-orange color
    • basically - looks like an orange dandelion
    • linear leaves - unlike the "real" dandelion

  • Antennaria spp. / pussytoes

    • small clusters of white flowers, often fringed with red
    • flowers look like a cat's toes, sort of
    • newest leaves silvery/hairy
    • exposed, in many different habitats

  • Balsamorhiza sagittata / arrowleaf balsamroot

    • large, bright yellow, sunflower-like blossoms in early spring
    • very large, more or less triangular basal leaves
    • leaves appear silvery, or grey-green due to leaf hairs
    • on open, fairly dry hillsides and ridges, often with sagebrush

  • Calypso bulbosa / eastern fairy-slipper

    • pink/magenta/mauve/purple orchid
    • lighter lower lip highlighted with purple veins; star-like petals and sepals
    • pointy bract behind flower
    • single oval, wrinkled leaf at ground level
    • about 6 inches tall

  • Cirsium hookerianum / Hooker’s thistle

    • clearly a thistle, but with white flowers
    • native but not plentiful
    • seen at Mahogany Creek in mid-August

  • 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

  • Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon

    • two-toned totally tubular flower (blue and pink-ish)
    • early spring to at least mid-summer
    • widespread in low disturbance habitats - even when rocky and "bare"

  • Phacelia heterophylla / varied leaf scorpionweed

    • spirally arranged, teeny white flowers with very long stamens
    • flowers turn brown soon after opening
    • all parts of the plant are hairy
    • not all that common, but widespread

  • Phlox hoodii / spiny phlox

    • half-inch, five (or four) petaled flower with yellow center
    • low to ground, mat forming, moss-like
    • tightly packed, narrow, spiny leaves
    • blooms in very early spring, just after snowmelt
    • with sagebrush on dry, rocky soils

  • Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage

    • alpine or subalpine
    • on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
    • glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
    • teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
    • blooms in August at high altitudes

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