solidago missouriensis

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

solidago missouriensis

Solidago missouriensis is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Missouri goldenrod and prairie goldenrod. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in Canada and the United States.Its distribution extends into Coahuila in Mexico.

This plant can be found in many types of habitat. It is common on the Great Plains. It grows preferably in dry, open habitat and can occur at high elevations. It colonizes disturbed soils. During the Dust Bowl-era drought, when many of the native grasses and plants died, the goldenrod flourished in the dry, cleared soil. As the drought ended and the grasses returned, the goldenrod became less common, disappearing in many areas. It grows in soils turned over by burrowing animals and on roadsides and mining sites

lomatium triternatum

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

lomatium triternatum

Lomatium triternatum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name nineleaf biscuitroot. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a hairy perennial herb growing up to a meter tall from a taproot. The leaves emerge from the lower part of the stem. Each is generally divided into three leaflets which are each subdivided into three linear leaflike segments. The inflorescence is an umbel of yellow flowers, each cluster on a ray up to 10 centimeters long.

achillez millefolium

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

achillez millefolium

Achillea millefolium or yarrow is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. In New Mexico and southern Colorado, it is called plumajillo, or "little feather", for the shape of the leaves. In antiquity, yarrow was known as herbal militaris, for its use in staunching the flow of blood from wounds. Other common names for this species include common yarrow, gordaldo, nosebleed plant, old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, thousand-leaf (as its binomial name affirms), and thousand-seal.

ranunculus occidentalis

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

ranunculus occidentalis

A species of buttercup found in the western United States and Canada. Its distribution extends from Alaska through British Columbia and Alberta to central California. The flower can be seen in open meadows, forests, and other generally flat areas up to an elevation of 2,200 metres (7,200 ft).

Aleut Indians may have used juice from the plant as a poison, its toxicity arising from the substance protoanemonin. Shasta Indians coincided blooming R. occidentalis with salmon runs in the summer. The seeds were used to make pinole, a staple food.

This plant is similar to, and sometimes difficult to distinguish from, the California buttercup (Ranunculus californicus).

lomatium utriculatum

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

lomatium utriculatum

Fine-Leaf Desert Parsley
Upright clump. Stems leafy, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves mostly basal, a few on lower stem, petioles widely sheathing to first branch; blade dissected pinnately into very narrow, linear, fern-like leaflets. Inflorescence small, with compact clusters in open umbels. Flowers small, bright yellow, sustained by egg-shaped, overlapping bractlets. Grows in meadows, woodlands, open and often rocky places, from near coastline to mid elevations. One of the longest-blooming flowers, starting as early as January and found as late as July.

Rarity: Common
Flowering Time: All Spring
Life Cycle: Perennial
Height: 6--24 inches
Habitat: West-Side Forest, Meadow, Coastal
Found In: Siskiyous, Olympic NP
Native: Yes

erigeron speciosus

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

erigeron speciosus

Description
Plant height: 15-80 cm tall.
Growth habit: erect perennial from fibrous roots.
Stems: clustered from a woody stem base, amply leafy,
generally hairless below the flower cluster.

Leaves: alternate, 1-2 cm broad, slightly clasping stem,
hairless or nearly so, often triple-nerved. Lower leaves
spatula- or lance-shaped, broadest toward tip, stalked,
mostly withering soon, the upper leaves lance-shaped,
becoming stalkless, but ample.

Flowerheads: pink to blue or rarely white, with 65-150
rays, 9-18 mm long and about 1 mm wide. Disk corollas
4-5 mm long. Involucre 6-9 mm high, glandular, with
narrow, linear, pointed bracts. Heads 1-13 in loose
clusters.

Flowering time: June-August.

gaillardia aristata

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

gaillardia aristata

A species of flowering plant in the sunflower family known by the common names common blanketflower and common gaillardia. This perennial wildflower is native to much of northern and western North America.

cerastium avernse

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

cerastium avernse

 A species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name field chickweed. 

aster hallii

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

aster hallii

State Threatened Flower, DNR

Status: State Threatened
Rank: G4S1
General Description: Adapted from Douglas et al. (1998): A fibrousrooted perennial 8 to 40 in. (20 to 100 cm) tall from a rhizome or short,
thickened, woody caudex. The stem is pubescent at least above. The
linear leaves are mostly entire and hairless to more or less pubescent.
The lower leaves are usually oblanceolate, petiolate, and commonly
deciduous except in smaller plants. The middle and upper leaves are
sessile, linear to obovate or oval, ¾ to 4 in. (2 to 10 cm) long, and 1/16
to ¾ in. (2 to 20 mm) wide. The inflorescence is conspicuously
divaricate-bracteate. There are one to many floral heads in the inflorescence with an involucre that is ¼ in. (5 to 7 mm) high, and has
overlapping bracts, which are green-tipped, mostly obtuse or acutish
and 2 to 4 times as long as wide. There are most often 15 to 40 white
rays that are ¼ to 2/3 in. (5 to 15 mm) long.

Identification Tips: Aster hallii can be distinguished from the common A. subspicatus, A. foliaceous, and A. occidentalis by its strongly
graduated involucre. The outer bracts of the involucre are also obtuse,
markedly shorter than the inner, and not foliaceous. In the Flora of the
Pacific Northwest, A. hallii is described as a subspecies of A.
chilensis (A. chilensis spp. hallii), along with ssp. chilensis and ssp.
ascendens. To distinguish these subspecies (now described as full
species) use the following characteristics: the inflorescence of A. hallii
is conspicuously divaricate-bracteate, its bracts are mostly obtuse or
acutish, 2 to 4 times as long as wide, and markedly acute, its rays are
white, its leaves are linear, and its heads are generally smaller than in
other subspecies. The inflorescence of A. chilensis and A. ascendens
are not conspicuously divaricate-bracteate, their bracts, if present, are
mostly erect, more than 4 times as long as wide, and markedly acute,
their rays are usually blue or pinkish (sometimes white), and their
leaves are linear or broader than A. hallii. Use of a technical key is
necessary for correct identification.

Phenology: Flowers from July to October.

Range: Found in Oregon, and occasionally Thurston and Clark
Counties, Washington.

Habitat: Aster hallii prefers dry, open places in valleys and plains. In
Washington, this species has been seen in a wet remnant prairie in a
floodplain.

lomatiam nudicaule

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

lomatiam nudicaule

A species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names barestem biscuitroot, Indian celery and Indian consumption plant. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it is known from several habitat types, including forest and woodland. It is a perennial herb growing up to about 70 centimeters tall from a thick taproot. It generally lacks a stem, the inflorescence and leaves emerging from ground level. The leaves are made up of many dull green, waxy lance-shaped leaflets each up to 9 centimeters long. The inflorescence is borne on a stout peduncle widening at the top where it blooms in an umbel of yellow or purplish flowers.

potentilla gracilis

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie 

potentilla gracilis

microseris laciniata

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

microseris laciniata

A species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name cutleaf silverpuffs. It is native to the western United States from Washington to northern California and Nevada, where it grows in forest and grassland habitat.

festuca roemeri

Flowers of the Sequalitchew Prairie

festuca roemeri

http://www1.dnr.wa.gov/nhp/refdesk/communities/pdf/fero-seri.pdf


FESTUCA ROEMERI - SERICOCARPUS RIGIDUS
Roemer’s fescue - white-top aster
Abbreviated Name:  FERO-SERI
Synonym:  Festuca idahoensis var.  roemeri - Aster curtus
Sample size = 20 plots

DISTRIBUTION:  This association represents most of what
remains of native prairies in the southern Puget Sound area.
Historically, there were probably other native prairie associations
in this area.  It is located in southwestern Pierce County, Thurston
County, and the Chehalis River valley in the far eastern end of
Grays Harbor County.  It probably formerly also occurred in Lewis
County in the vicinity of Centralia, and may have occurred on
prairie soils in Mason County.

GLOBAL/STATE STATUS: G1S1. There are less than 20 remaining occurrences and they are highly threatened by invasion of nonnative species, fire suppression, and development.

ID TIPS: Dominated or co-dominated by Roemer’s fescue. Whitetop aster, houndstongue hawkweed, prairie lupine, Idaho blue-eyed
grass, or sickle-keeled lupine usually present. Level or mounded
topography on glacial outwash in southern Puget Sound area.

ENVIRONMENT:  These sites are moderately dry and appear to
be relatively nutrient-rich.  Occurs on flat or mounded (Mima
mounds) plains of recessional glacial outwash.  Soils are deep
and excessively drained, typically gravelly or extremely gravelly
sandy loam in texture.
Precipitation: 38-64 inches (mean 50)
Elevation: 50-560 feet
Aspect/slope: level or mounded
Slope position: plains
Soil series: Spanaway, Spanaway-Nisqually complex