Buckbean
Menyanthes trifoliata

Perennial. Aquatic to semi aquatic plant.Leaves, alternate, crowded near base of flowering stem.Flowers are white usually tinged with pink. Surface of petals have long hairs. Bogs and fens, marshes and ponds.

 

Pink Mountain Heather
Phyllodoce empetriformis

 

Woodland Strawberry
Fragaria vesca

 

Silky Phacelia
Phacelia sericea

 

 

  Meadow Rue
Thalictrum occidentale

 

Hairy Vetch
Vicia villosa

 

 

Globeflower
Trollius laxus

 

Small Flowered Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
Perennial with several flowering stems Leaves are
mainly basal, long stalked and heart shaped
to oblong. Flowers are very small and white in
numerous open clusters. Rock crevices and stream
banks, low to sub alpine levels.
 

 

Small Flowered Penstemon
Penstemon procerus

 

Fendler's Waterleaf
Hydrophyllum fendleri

 

Baldhip Rose
Rosa gymnocarpa
Spindly rose to 2m tall usually with soft prickles.
Leaves are alternate and deciduous. Compound with
odd number of leaflets.Flowers pink to rose color.
Small about 2 cm across. Usually single.Dry to moist
areas, open to wooded at low to middle elevations.

 

Scalloped Onion
Allium crenulatum

 

Creeping Buttercup
Ranunculus repens
Hairy perennial with stolens rooting at the nodes.
Leaves are dark green sometimes with spots.
Stalked with 3 leaflets. Flowers are a deep yellow,
terminal on erect stems. Disturbed sites,
fields and pastures, clearings.
 

Curly Dock
Rumex crispus
A strongly growing perennial plant unbranched
below the flowers to 100cm. Leaves are lance shaped
and rounded at the base with crisp curled edges.
The flowers are green to dull brown, whorled in
dense clusters. Waste places and roadsides.
Fields and pastures.

 

Baneberry Fruit (Poisonous)
Actaea rubra
Rhizomatous perennial with 1 to several erect leafy
stems. The leaves are 2-3 times divided into threes
and coarsely lobed & toothed. Flowers are small, white
and numerous in clusters on long stalks.
Moist, shady forests.
THE BERRIES, FOLIAGE AND ROOTS ARE HIGHLY POISONOUS

  Miners Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
Succulent annual. Several flowering stems 5-30cm
tall. Numerous basal leaves, spoon shaped .Flowers
white or pinkish and nodding. In clusters in leaf disc.
Moist forests, thickets, open to shady areas

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