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Scarlet gilia Pingue rubberweed Whitemargin pussytoes* Mountain parsley

Locoweed (Oxytropis lambertii) Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) • Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) • • ¾" long purple pea-like Feathery leaves 2–6" long, ½" Readily invades disturbed sites Fleabane (Erigeron spp.) • flowers in clusters to 9" tall. wide in rosettes of many leaves. but only persists for a few Many species. Small white, Leaves to 5" long with 11–17 White flat-topped clusters of years. First year forms basal fuzzy leaflets, sometimes flowers on stDalk 6–20" tall. pink, or light purple flowers with rosette of large soft, fuzzy appearing grAay. Seedstalk turns leaves, second year sends up numerous nKarrow petals and pale yellow and stays standing Bracken fern (Pteridium seed stalk to 7' high. Hundreds yellow center. after releasing seed. aquilinum) • A large fern, to 3' of bright Hyellow flowers tall. Fronds triangular, usually maturing to round seed pods of Purple geranium (Geranium with three leaflets with many Rocky Mountain iris, blue flag tiny black seeds. Seed stalk caespitosum) • Pink or purple tiny leaves. Grows in large (Iris missouriensis) • Common dries to a stout brown shaft that flowers; up to 10" tall; few colonies in fields, brushy areas, in moist sites, and into the persists through winter. flowers per . Thin creeping and woods. Thick root-like mixed conifer zone. Showy stems, often red. Leaves five- underground stems, to 6' long; Silvery lupine (Lupinus purplish petals and white sepals E lobed, smellyL when crushed, red many fronds may grow from argenteus) • Branching flowers with blue stripes on round stem in autumn. each stem. Vigorous after to 3' tall. Leaves fuzzy when to 24" tall. Long, narrow leaves B disturbance. Cover for small young; 5–9 narrow lobes; pea- from base of plant. Grows in M o u n t a i n p a r s l e y animals and emerging . like flowers in tall clusters; groups. Growth depends on purple. AggresIsive growth after (Pseudocymopterus montanus) adequate snowfall. fire. • Up to 30" tall. Yellow flowers Whitemargin pussytoes in flat-topped clusters. Leaves Pingue rubber weed Scarlet gilia, skyrocket ( marginata) • Small green, broad, feathery, with (Hymenoxys richardsonii) • To (Ipomopsis aggregato) • Bright plant lying close to ground many poinMted lobes. Strong 12" tall, several to dozens of red, trumpet-shaped flowers forming mats. Necktie shaped scent. woody stems in a bunch, wooly along stalk to 3' tall. Dark green leaves ½–1" long, slightly hairy at base. Yellow daisy-like leaves with narrow lobes. First underneath, with a white F flowers ½" wide maturing to * Cronquist, A. and A. H. Holmgren, N. H. year it consists of leaves close J Holmgren, J. L. Reveal and P. K. Holmgren. appearance. White clusters of C wooly tufts of seeds. Very 1994. Intermountain Flora Vascular Plants of the to the ground, second year it flowers on stalks 2–4" tall. narrow leaves, poisonous to Intermountain West, USA. The New York grows higher and then flowers. Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY. Volume 5. livestock. Wildflowers

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