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ALBION BASIN PLANT CHECKLIST

MID-SUMMER


BORAGE Family
___ Hackelia floribunda............Wild Forget-Me-Not
___ Hackelia micrantha.............Jessie's Tickweed
___ Mertensia arizonica............Mountain Bluebells
___ Mertensia ciliata.................Mountain Bluebells

BOXWOOD Family
___ Pachystima myrsinites............Mountain Lover

BUCKWHEAT Family
___ Eriogonum heracleoides..........Wyeth Buckwheat
___ Eriogonum umbellatum...........Sulphurflower

BUTTERCUP Family
___ Anemone multifida.................Globeflower
___ Aquilegia caerulea..................Colorado Columbine
___ Aquilegia flavescens...............Yellow Columbine
___ Caltha leptosepala..................Marsh Marigold
___ Delphinium occidentale...........Duncecap Larkspur
___ Ranunculus adoneus...............Alpine Buttercup
___ Ranunculus inamoenus...........Pleasant Buttercup
___ Ranunculus jovis...................Utah Buttercup
___ Thalictrum fendleri................Meadow Rue

CURRANT Family
___ Ribes montigenum.................Gooseberry Currant

CYPRESS Family
___ Juniperus communis...............Spreading Juniper

EVENING PRIMROSE Family
___ Epilobium alpinum..................Alpine Willowherb
___ Epilobium angustifolium..........Fireweed
___ Epilobium ciliatum..................Northern Willowherb

FERN Family
___ Asplenium viride.....................Green Spleenwort
___ Cryptogramma crispa...............Parsley Fern
___ Cystopteris fragilis...................Brittle Bladder Fern
___ Pellaea breweri........................Cliffbrake

FLAX Family
___ Linum kingii............................King's Flax (yellow)
___ Linum perenne........................Wild Flax (blue)

GENTIAN Family
___ Swertia radiata........................Showy Green Gentian

GERANIUM Family
___ Geranium richardsonii.............Richardson's Geranium (white)
___ Geranium viscosissimum.........Sticky Geranium (pink)

GRASS Family
___ Phleum alpinum.....................Alpine Timothy Grass
___ Poa sp. .................................Bluegrass

HONEYSUCKLE Family
___ Lonicera involucrata................Twinberry, Bearberry
___ Sambucus racemosa................Red Elderberry
___ Symphoricarpos oreophilus......Snowberry

LILY Family
___ Veratrum californicum.............Corn Lily, False Hellebore

MINT Family
___ Agastache urticifolia.................Hyssop, Horse Mint
___ Monardella odoratissima...........Mountain Pennyroyal

MUSTARD Family
___ Arabis sp. ...............................Rockcress
___ Cardamine cordifolia................Heartleaf Bittercress
___ Descurainia richardsonii...........Tansy Mustard
___ Erysimum asperum..................Wallflower
___ Lesquerella utahensis...............Bladderpod
___ Rorippa curvipes.....................Yellowcress
___ Thlaspi montanum...................Pennycress

ORCHID Family
___ Habenaria dilatata....................White Bog Orchid

PARSLEY Family
___ Heracleum sphondylium...........Cow Parsnip
___ Osmorhiza occidentalis.............Sweet Cicely, Sweetanise

PEA Family
___ Lupinus argenteus....................Silvery Lupine

PHLOX Family
___ Gilia aggregata..........................Skyrocket, Scarlet Gilia
___ Linanthus nuttallii.....................Flaxflower
___ Polemonium foliosissimum........Jacob's Ladder
___ Polemonium pulcherrimum........Sky Pilot, Skunkleaf

PINE Family
___ Abies lasiocarpa........................Subalpine Fir
___ Picea engelmannii.....................Engelmann Spruce

PINK Family
___ Silene douglasii.........................Douglas Campion
___ Stellaria jamesiana.....................James Chickweed

PLANTAIN Family
___ Plantago lanceolata....................English Plantain

PRIMROSE Family
___ Dodecatheon pulchellum............Shooting Star
___ Primula parryi...........................Parry's Primrose

PURSLANE Family
___ Claytonia lanceolata..................Spring Beauty

ROSE Family
___ Amelanchier alnifolia................Saskatoon Serviceberry
___ Ivesia gordonii.........................Ivesia
___ Potentilla fruticosa...................Shrubby Cinquefoil
___ Potentilla glandulosa................Gland Cinquefoil
___ Potentilla gracilis......................Five-Finger or Soft Cinquefoil
___ Sibbaldia procumbens...............Sibbaldia
___ Sorbus scopulina......................Mountain Ash

RUSH Family
___ Juncus parryi...........................Parry rush

SAXIFRAGE Family
___ Heuchera rubescens.................Red Alumroot, Coralbells
___ Parnassia fimbriata...................Rocky Mountain Parnassia
___ Saxifraga odontoloma...............Brook Saxifrage

SEDGE Family
___ Carex sp. ................................Sedge

SNAPDRAGON Family
___ Castilleja rhexifolia...................Splitleaf Indian Paintbrush
___ Castilleja sulphurea..................Sulphur Indian Paintbrush
___ Mimulus tilingii........................Tiling Monkeyflower (yellow)
___ Mimulus moschatus..................Musk Monkeyflower (yellow)
___ Mimulus lewisii........................Lewis Monkeyflower (rose)
___ Orthocarpus tolmiei..................Owlclover
___ Pedicularis groenlandica............Elephanthead
___ Pedicularis racemosa.................Lousewort, Parrot's Beak
___ Pentstemon cyananthus.............Wasatch Pentstemon, Beardtongue
___ Pentstemon humilis...................Low Pentstemon
___ Pentstemon leonardii.................Leonard Pentstemon
___ Pentstemon whippleanus............Whipple Pentstemon
___ Veronica wormskjoldii...............Alpine Speedwell

STONECROP Family
___ Sedum debile...........................Stonecrop

SUNFLOWER Family
___ Achillea millefolium..................Yarrow
___ Arnica cordifolia......................Heartleaf Arnica
___ Antennaria rosea......................Rose Pussytoes
___ Artemisia ludoviciana................Wormwood, Sagewort
___ Aster engelmannii.....................Engelmann Aster
___ Aster perelegans.......................Nuttall Aster
___ Cirsium eatonii.........................Eaton Thistle
___ Erigeron eatonii........................Eaton Fleabane Daisy
___ Erigeron speciosus....................Showy Fleabane Daisy
___ Happlopappus macronema........Whitestem Goldenweed
___ Machaeranthera kingii...............King's Tansyaster
___ Rudbeckia occidentali...............Western Coneflower
___ Senecio crassulus......................Mt. Meadow Groundsel
___ Senecio integerrimus..................Columbia Groundsel
___ Senecio multilobatus..................Lobeleaf Groundsel
___ Senecio streptanthifolius.............Butterweed or Groundsel
___ Viguiera multiflora.....................Showy Goldeneye

VALERIAN Family
___ Valerian acutifolia.....................Sharpleaf Valerian
___ Valerian edulis..........................Edible Valerian

WATERLEAF Family
___ Phacelia hastata........................Spearleaf Scorpionweed

WILLOW Family
___ Salix glauca..............................Grayleaf willow



Prepared by Janet Williams
UNSS Field Trip Handout
July 1987
Adapted for
The INTERNET
by Sandra Bray
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