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.