widespread

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  • Delphinium bicolor / low larkspur

    • short plant with a spike of purple flowers
    • individual flowers have a pronounced spur out the back
    • leaves are few, round, deeply lobed, about the size of a quarter
    • widespread throughout the valley and on the hills
    • appears and blooms soon after snowmelt

  • Delphinium nuttallianum / upland larkspur

    • Bright blue flowers, sometimes whitish or other color petals in center
    • One or several flowers per stalk
    • Long spur "behind" the flower
    • Leaves mostly low on the stem - divided into several or many lobes
    • Open meadows, near streams, with sagebrush, any elevation
    • Beginning soon after snowmelt and sometime persisting into September

  • Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard

    • another stupid yellow crucifer
    • erect stem, up to 30 inches
    • deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
    • often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils

  • Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass

    • cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
    • flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
    • flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
    • beautifully straw colored in fall
    • common but rarely abundant; many habitats

  • Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed

    • small flowers... pink to purple to white
    • four, very deeply notched petals
    • narrow, very long fruit; downy seeds

  • Ericameria nauseosa / rubber rabbitbrush

    • golden-yellow flower heads in profusion
    • small 5-petaled flowers
    • widespread shrub
    • very narrow, linear leaves
    • white sticky sap ("rubber")

  • 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

  • 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

  • Erysimum cheiranthoides / wormseed wallflower

    • yellow, 4-petaled flower, less than 1/3 inch across
    • lance shaped or elliptical, sessile leaves varying little in size or shape
    • leaf margins entire or coarsely toothed
    • ribbed stems
    • ascending or erect siliques with short pedicels
    • disturbed and waste areas

  • 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

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