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  • White composite flowers
  • Ubiquitous
  • Fern-like leaves
  • Aromatic
  • Woolly stems and leaves
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Achillea millefolium
Western yarrow
COMPOSITAE

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  • White flowers
  • Low growing forb, stoloniferous
  • Gray leaves
  • Heads of flowers resemble pads on cat’s feet
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Antennaria parvifolia
Rocky Mountain pussytoes
COMPOSITAE

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  • Yellow flowers
  • Heart-shaped leaves
  • Opposite leaves
  • Long rhizomes
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Arnica cordifolia
Heartless arnica
COMPOSITAE

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  • Leaves alternate, simple, irregularly lobed(and variable)
  • Rhizomatous
  • Densely pubescent
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Artemisia ludociciana
Prairie sage, Louisiana cuddled or sagewort
COMPOSITAE

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  • Many species toxic to animals, someare good forage
  • Leaves found on the flowering stemspinnately dissected
  • Flowers variable in color
  • Keel petals are blunt
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Astragalus spp.
Locoweed or milk vetch
Leguminosae

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  • Synonym: Chamaenerion angustifolium
  • Bright purple flowers
  • Back side of leaf has 1 conspicuous vein
  • Secondary veins run parallel to leaf margins
  • Common in disturbed areas, especially after fire
  • Leaves linear
  • lanceolate
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Epilobium angustifolium
Fireweed
ONAGRACEAE

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  • Stems very hairy
  • Yellow composite flowers
  • Alternate leaves
  • Reddish stems
  • Increaser species
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Chrysopsis villosa
Hairy golden aster
COMPOSITAE

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8
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  • Poisonous to cattle, especially in spring
  • Low growing leaves
  • Blue flowers with spurs
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Delphinium spp.
Larkspur
RANUNCULACEAE

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  • Forb that closely resembles a grass
  • Very fine linear leaves, opposite
  • Sharp points on tips of leaves
  • White flowers
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Eremogone fendleri
Fendlers sandwort
CARYOPHYLLACEAE

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  • Small linear leaves, alternate
  • White composite flowers
  • Fine hairs on foliage
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Erigeron spp.

Daisy (COMPOSITAE)

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  • Umbel inflorescence
  • Leaves at base of plant
  • Bracts at base of inflorescence
  • Stoloniferous
  • Stems are reddish
  • Leaves light green above and dusty gray below
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Eriogonum umbellatum

sulphur-flower (POLYGONACEAE)

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12
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  • Biennial mustard
  • Yellow flowers
  • “Fish hook” subdivisions on leaf margins
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Erysimum asperum
western wallflower (CRUCIFERAE)
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13
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Grows in moist environments

  • Stoloniferous
  • Compound leaf with 3 leaflets
  • White flowers
  • Red stems
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Fragaria ovalis

strawberry (ROSACEAE)

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14
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  • Square stem
  • Small white flowers
  • Leaves in whorls originating from eachside of the stem
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Galium boreale

bedstraw (RUBIACEAE)

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White to purple flowers

  • Leaves with long petioles, sticky hairs on foliage
  • Palmately divided leaves
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Geraniumspp.

geranium (GERANIACEAE)

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16
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  • Looks like dill
  • Umbel inflorescence
  • Yellow flowers
  • Highly dissected leaf
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Harbouria trachypleura

whisk-broom parsley (UMBELLIFERAE)

17
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  • Common on disturbed sites
  • Invader species
  • Mostly opposite leaves
  • Course hairs on stem
  • Yellow composite flower
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Helianthus pumilus
dwarf sunflower (COMPOSITAE)
18
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  • Many lupines are poisonous
  • Palmately divided leaves
  • White-blue flowers
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Lupinus argenteus
common lupine (LEGUMINOSAE)
19
Q
  • Generally grows in moist sites
  • Waxy leaf-Fleshy feel to plant
  • Blue tubular flowers
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Mertensiaspp.

bluebells (BORAGINACEAE)

20
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  • Succulent-Numerous thick spines on pads

- Bright lemon yellow flower

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Opuntia polyacantha
starvation cactus (CACTACEAE)
21
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  • Poisonous to most herbivores, especially horses
  • Flowers scapose, i.e., borne on stalks that do not support leaves
  • Purple flowers with pointed keel petals
  • Leaves pinnately compound
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Oxytropis lambertii

crazyweed (LEGUMINOSAE)

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  • Purplish-blue tubular flowers
  • Irregular, 5-petalled flowers
  • Opposite leaves
  • Leaves waxy, tend to be folded
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Penstemonspp.

penstemon (SCROPHULARIACEAE)

23
Q
  • Leaves variable
  • Leaves end in 3 leaflets
  • Gray to greenish colored leaves
  • Yellow flowers
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Potentillaspp.

cinquefoil (ROSACEAE)

24
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  • Leaves palmately divided
  • Fine hairs on leaves
  • Flowers early in spring
  • Reddish stem
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Pulsatilla patens 
pasque flower (RANUNCULACEAE)
25
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  • Low-growing plant
  • Evergreen leaves with serrated margins
  • “Leathery” leaves
  • Leaves oval to spatulate
  • Common in the understory of lodgepole pine forests
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yrolaspp.

wintergreen (ERICACEAE)

26
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  • Low growing herb
  • Succulent, fleshy leaves
  • Yellow flowers
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Sedum lanceolatum

stonecrop (CRASSULACEAE)

27
Q
  • Yellow flowers
  • Netted venation on leaves
  • Very common plant in forest understory
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Solidagospp.

goldenrod (COMPOSITAE)

28
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  • Yellow flowers
  • Leaves divided into 3 leaflets
  • Leaflets with yellow veins
  • Sheathing stipules at the base of petiole
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Thermopsis divaricarpa
golden banner (LEGUMINOSAE)
29
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Yellow flowers
Lacerate, basal leaves
ubiquitous in disturbed areas with moist soil

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Taraxum official
dandelion
COMPOSITAE

30
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Aquilegia Caerulea

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Rocky Mountain columbine

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