Drummond’s Milkvetch (Astragalus drummondii)

Drummond’s Milkvetch (Astragalus drummondii)

Drummond’s Mikkvetch (Astragalus drummondii), Pea Family (Fabaceae). Native and common on the shortgrass prairie, grassy slopes, and sagebrush flats to pinyon-juniper, from plains and desert shrublands to montane on the eastern and western slopes. Blooms from...
Alpine Clover (Trifolium dasyphyllum)

Alpine Clover (Trifolium dasyphyllum)

Alpine Clover (Trifolium dasyphyllum) Pea Family (Fabaceae). Native and common in subalpine and alpine meadows, largely replaced in the southern mountains by Rocky Mountain Clover (Trifolium attenuatum). Blooms from June through August. Photo by Loraine...
Fendler’s Sandwort (Eremogone fendleri)

Fendler’s Sandwort (Eremogone fendleri)

Fendler’s Sandwort (Eremogone fendleri), Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae), Native and common in sandy or rocky soil of open slopes, meadows, forests, and the slpine from foothills to alpine. Blooms from June through August on the eastern and western slopes. Photo...
American Bistort (Bistorta bistortoides)

American Bistort (Bistorta bistortoides)

American Bistort (Bistorta bistortoides), Buckwheat Family (Polygonaceae), Native and common along streams, in moist meadows and marshes, aspen forest, and in alpine, from foothills to alpine on the eastern and western slopes. Blooms from June through September. Photo...
Geum-rossii-var-trubinata-Yeatts

Geum-rossii-var-trubinata-Yeatts

Avens (Geum rossii var. turbinatum), Rose Family (Rosaceae). Native and very abundant on rocky tundra, forming a dense, tight turf in areas with relatively little winter snow cover, from montane to alpine on the eastern and western slopes. In the alpine this flower...