Antennaria Corymbosa Plant
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Antennaria corymbosa Plant Meadow pussy-toes Flowering/Fruiting: June to A mat-forming perennial. August Leaves mostly basal, narrow, hairy. Kathy Ahlenslager Look Alikes: Antennaria rosea. Antennaria corymbosa has narrower leaves. Bracts 1/8 to 1/4 Habitat in. high, green Bogs. and Elevation 5000 ft. hairy at base. Bract tips have a blackish or dark brown spot below white terminal portion. University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Kathy Ahlenslager Antennaria parvifolia Plant Nutall’s pussy-toes Flowering/Fruiting: May to July. A mat forming perennial seldom over 6 in. tall. Dry flower bracts bright white to dull white to Photo by BLM pink, 1/4 to 1/3 in. long. Look Alikes: Antennaria rosea. Antennaria parvifolia is stouter with closely bunched flowers and has longer leaves. Bracts 1/4 to 1/2 in. high. Habitat Dry open areas, on sandy or Basal leaves wooly with hairs of medium gravelly riverbanks, openings length, oblong of Ponderosa pine forests. but narrowed at Elevation 1900 to 2600 ft.. base, 1/2 to 1 1/2 in. long and 1/4 to 1/2 in. wide. Photo by BLM University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Astragalus microcystis Plant Least bladdery milk-vetch Flowering/Fruiting: Late April through August. A tap-rooted perennial with many stems arising from an exposed rootcrown. Amy Cabral Flowers pink or pale lavender to deep magenta purplish, Look Alikes: Astragalus canadensis var. mortonii and A. alpinus var. alpinus. Astralagus microcystis is shorter Leaves 9 to 15 5 to 12 stalked. grayish-green, than A. canadensis var. mortonii, 12 to 32 in. tall and the hairy leaflets. lower petals of A. alpinus var. alpinus are longer, more than 1/4 in. Pods lack stalk, 1/3 to Habitat 1/2 in. long, inflated and slightly Open woods near shorelines, compressed. riverbanks, floodplains. Elevation 1900 to 2100 ft. Stems 4 to 20 in. long. University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Amy Cabral Botrychium ascendens Plant Upswept moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: June through July. A perennial with frond divided into sterile and fertile segments, up to 5 in. tall. Sterile segment 1/2 to 1 1/3 in. long; yellowish-green with 4 to 6 non-overlapping, Kirk Larson upward directed wedge- shaped, Look Alikes: Botrychium. lunaria has overlapping and spreading toothed sterile segments. leaflets. Habitat Fertile segment Dry meadows. attached to Elevation 3000 to 3400 ft. sterile segment about midway up frond, taller and narrower than sterile segment. Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Kirk Larson Botrychium crenulatum Plant Dainty moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: May through September. A perennial with a single aboveground frond divided into sterile and fertile segments. Fertile segment 1 1/3 to 3 times the length of the sterile segment. Kirk Larson Look Alikes: Botrychium lunaria has overlapping and spreading sterile segments. Habitat Sterile segment 3/16 to 2 3/4 in. long, Western redcedar/western yellow-green, oblong; hemlock forests, streambanks, leaflets up to 5 pairs, floodplains. well separated, Elevation 2030 to 4600 ft. fan-shaped, rounded, veination like ribs of fan. Kirk Larson Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Botrychium hesperium Plant Western moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: Late May-early June. A perennial with a single green aboveground frond, 2 to 8 in. tall, divided into vegetative and fertile segments. Kirk Larson Look Alikes: Botrychium simplex. Botrychium hesperium has vegetative segment attached higher on the stem. B. simplex has vegetative segment attached at ground level. Habitat Fertile Dry to moist meadows. segment Elevation 3200 to 3300 ft. nearly Vegetative segment, twice gray-green, as tall as short-stalked, 3/8 to vegetative 2 in. long, leaflets segment.. broadly attached to a relatively wide axis, oval to lance-shaped with rounded tips; leaflets staggered Botrychium hesperium. along axis. Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Kirk Larson Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Botrychium lineare Plant Linearleaf moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: June. A perennial with a single pale green, aboveground frond, 2 1/3 to 7 in. tall, divided into vegetative and fertile segments. Fertile segment 1 to 2 times as long Kirk Larson as vegetative segment; single major axis with Look Alikes: Botrychium campestre. Botrychium lineare short branches. distinguished by extremely narrow leaflets of vegetative segment. Vegetative leaf segment Habitat has 4 to 6 linear-shaped leaflets, strongly Western redcedar/western separated by 2 to 5 hemlock forests, streambanks, times the width of the floodplains. leaflets. Elevation 2000 to 4000 ft. Kirk Larson Illustration by Janet Wingate; From ‘ Colorado Rare Plant Field Guide’. Botrychium paradoxum Plant Two-spiked moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: May through September. A perennial with an aboveground frond with 2 fertile segments, 3/16 to 1 1/2 in. tall. The stalk splits Look Alikes: This moonwort is distinguished from all others by into two having spores on both segments. segments. Each of the segments has spores. Habitat Meadows, perennial and intermittent streams. Elevation 2500 to 3600. Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Botrychium penduculosum Plant Stalked moonwort Flowering/Fruiting: May through August. A perennial with a single aboveground frond divided into sterile and fertile segments. Fertile segment 2 to 4 times length of Jean Wood sterile segment; 1 to 3 leaflets per segment. Sterile segment dull Look Alikes: The reddish stem and stalked sterile green, leathery, segment distinguish this plant from other moonworts. oval to oblong, 1 3/4 in. long to 3/4 in. wide. Habitat Dry to moist meadows, perennial streams. Leaflets to 5 pairs, Elevation 2500 to 3300 ft. pointed upwards, edges irregularly lobed, Common stalk rounded. reddish brown. Jean Wood Drawing provided by USDA Forest Service. Carex capillaris Plant Hair-like sedge Flowering/Fruiting: June through August A sedge with slender loose stems, 4 to 24 in. tall, densely tufted with lower leaves. John Gamon Male spike 1/8 to 1/2 in. long. Female spikes 1 to Look Alikes: Other Carex species. Carex capillaris 4, loose, nodding, distinguished by slender stems and nodding or spreading 5 to 20 flowers, 1/4 spikes. to 2/3 in. long. Leaves mostly Habitat in a basal Inflated bracts cluster, 1/16 to elliptic to Streambanks, wet meadows, 1/8 in. wide and lance-shaped, 1/8 in. wet ledges, and marshy lake 6 in. long; long, 2-nerved, shores. shorter than 3 stigmas. stems. Elevation 2800 to 6500 ft.. Fruit triangular, 1/8 in. long Kathy Ahlenslager University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Carex comosa Plant Bristly sedge Flowering/Fruiting: May through July A sedge with stems densely clustered on short, stout rhizomes, 20 to 40 in. tall. Ca e co osa Female spikes 3 to 5, 3/4 to 2 3/4 in. long and about 2/3 in. thick, loose and more or less Fred Weinmann nodding. Look Alikes: Carex utriculata. Carex comosa Leaves smooth, flat, distinguished by the “ bottle brush” appearance of the nodding Fruit 3-sided, 1/8 to 1/2 in. wide. female spikes and the long divergent teeth on the inflated bract. 1/16 in. in lower half of Inflated bract inflated pale greenish, 1/4 to Habitat bract. 1/3 in. Marshes, lake shores, and long, 15 to 20 wet meadows. nerved. Elevation 50 to 2000 ft. Male spike solitary, at the top of stem, up to 2 1/2 in. long. University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Linda Kunze Carex dioica var. Plant gynocrates Flowering/Fruiting: Yellow bog sedge June through August Stems 2 to 8 in. tall, arising from long slender rhizomes. Solitary/ bractless spike. Look Alikes: Carex dioica is distinguished by a solitary upright Male flowers above female spike with widely spaced bracts, 2 stigmas flowers. and well-developed slender rhizomes. Bracts crowded, plump, 1/8 in. long. Habitat Short, Sphagnum bogs, forested hairless wetlands, and other wet beak, marshy areas. chestnut Elevation 2600 to 3800 ft. brown at maturity. Stigmas 2 Leaves, short and slender, 1 1/4 to 6 in. long, crowded at base. John Gamon University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Carex flava Plant Yellow sedge Flowering/Fruiting: July and August Stems 4 to 32 in. tall, clustered, not rhizomatous, with above-ground leaves which are flat; mostly 1/16 to 1/4 in. wide. Barb Benner-USFS Leafy bract below flowers at right angle to stem. Look Alikes: Carex oederi. Carex flava has larger Terminal flowers, male, inflated bracts, wider flatter leaves and a leafy bract 1/4 to 1 in. long. blow flowers at a right angle to the stem. Lateral flowers, female, 2-5, short, Habitat stout 1/4 to 2/3 Wet meadows, forested in. long. wetlands, bogs and shores of streams and lakes. Elevation 2000 to 4300 ft. Inflated bract, yellow, 1/8 to 1/4 in. long. Stigmas 3. Robert Moseley-IDCDC University of Washington Press. Illustration by Jeanne R. Janish. Carex foenea Plant Bronze sedge Flowering/Fruiting: May through July Plants densely tufted without creeping rhizomes, 12 to 32 in. tall. Fruit lens-shaped Flower spikes 3 to 8 about 1/16 with male flowers in. long and below females, 1/4 to 1/16 in. wide. 1 in. long, pale greenish to straw - colored to medium brown. Inflated bract flat on one Emmet Judziewicz side, convex on the other, Look Alikes: This sedge is distinguished from others by 1/4 to 3 /16 in. the thin edges of the flattened fruits. long and 1/16 to 1/8 in. wide, 8 to 14-nerved. Leaves borne on lower half of stem, Habitat much shorter than stems, flat, 1/16 to Marshes. 3/16 in. wide. Elevation 2585 ft.