Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Introduction
3. Territorial Range of Wildflowers
4. Red, Orange and Pink Flowers
   1. Common Hound’s-Tongue
   2. Water Smartweed (Water Knotweed)
   3. Red Columbine (Western Columbine)
   4. Cushion Cactus (Ball Cactus)
   5. Dotted Blazingstar
   6. Flodman's Thistle
   7. Spotted Knapweed
   8. Black Gooseberry
   9. Fireweed (Great Willowherb)
   10. Scarlet Butterflyweed
   11. Elephant’s Head
   12. Red Paintbrush
   13. Strawberry Blite
   14. Kinnikinnick (Bearberry)
   15. Pine-Drops
   16. Pink Wintergreen
   17. Pipsissewa (Prince’s Pine)
   18. Nodding Onion
   19. Western Wood Lily
   20. Scarlet Mallow
   21. Showy Milkweed
   22. Spotted Coralroot (Summer Coralroot)
   23. Striped Coralroot
   24. Wild Bergamot
   25. Red Clover
   26. Pitcherplant
   27. Prickly Rose
   28. Three-Flowered Avens (Old Man’s Whiskers)
5. White, Green and Brown Flowers
   1. Evening Star
   2. Clustered Oreocarya
   3. Water Crowfoot (Water Buttercup)
   4. Baneberry
   5. Canada Anemone
   6. Western Clematis (White Virgin’s Bower)
   7. Windflower
   8. Cow Parsnip
   9. Water Hemlock
   10. Common Cattail
   11. Arrow-Leaved Sweet Coltsfoot
   12. Ox-Eye Daisy
   13. Pineapple Weed (Disc Mayweed)
   14. Tufted Fleabane
   15. Yarrow
   16. Northern Gooseberry
   17. Spreading Dogbane
   18. Bunchberry (Dwarf Dogwood)
   19. Red Osier Dogwood
   20. Butte Primrose (Gumbo Evening Primrose)
   21. Wild Sarsaparilla
   22. Fringed Grass of Parnassus
   23. Greenish-Flowered Wintergreen (Green Wintergreen)
   24. Indian Pipe (Ghost Plant)
   25. Labrador Tea
   26. One-Sided Wintergreen
   27. Single Delight (One-Flowered Wintergreen)
   28. Low-Bush Cranberry (Mooseberry)
   29. Snowberry
   30. Twinflower
   31. Death Camas (Meadow Death Camas)
   32. Fairybells
   33. False Solomon’s Seal
   34. Prairie Onion
   35. White Camas
   36. Northern Bedstraw
   37. Sweet-Scented Bedstraw
   38. Seneca Snakeroot
   39. Morning Glory (Hedge Bindweed)
   40. Pennycress (Stinkweed)
   41. Black Henbane
   42. Hooded Ladies’ Tresses
   43. Round-Leaved Orchid
   44. Sparrow’s-Egg Lady’s Slipper (Franklin’s Lady’s Slipper)
   45. Ground Plum
   46. White Clover (Dutch Clover)
   47. White Peavine
   48. Wild Licorice
   49. Moss Phlox
   50. Field Chickweed (Mouse-Ear Chickweed)
   51. Mealy Primrose
   52. Western Spring Beauty
   53. Birch-Leaf Spirea
   54. Black Hawthorn
   55. Saskatoon (Serviceberry)
   56. Trailing Raspberry
   57. White Cinquefoil
   58. Wild Strawberry
   59. Pale Comandra (Bastard Toadflax)
   60. Richardson’s Alumroot
   61. Western Canada Violet
6. Blue and Purple Flowers
   1. Common Butterwort
   2. Stickseed
   3. Tall Lungwort (Mertensia)
   4. Blue Clematis
   5. Blue Columbine
   6. Low Larkspur
   7. Prairie Crocus
   8. Blue Lettuce
   9. Bull Thistle
   10. Canada Thistle
   11. Parry’s Townsendia
   12. Showy Aster
   13. Smooth Blue Aster
   14. Small-Flowered Beardtongue (Slender Beardtongue)
   15. Smooth Blue Beardtongue
   16. Blue Flax
   17. Hairy Four O’Clock (Umbrellawort)
   18. Northern Gentian
   19. Sticky Purple Geranium
   20. Harebell
   21. Western Bog Laurel (Swamp Laurel)
   22. Blue-Eyed Grass
   23. Giant Hyssop
   24. Marsh Hedge Nettle
   25. Marsh Skullcap
   26. Wild Mint (Field Mint)
   27. Dame’s Rocket (Dame’s Violet)
   28. Venus Slipper (Fairy Slipper)
   29. Ascending Purple Milk Vetch
   30. Purple Milk Vetch
   31. Purple Prairie Clover
   32. Showy Locoweed
   33. Silky Lupine
   34. Shooting Star
   35. Bog Violet
7. Yellow Flowers
   1. Common Bladderwort
   2. Puccoon (Lemonweed)
   3. Western False Gromwell
   4. Clustered Broomrape
   5. Yellow Buckwheat (Umbrella Plant)
   6. Creeping Buttercup (Seaside Buttercup)
   7. Marsh Marigold
   8. Meadow Buttercup
   9. Prickly-Pear Cactus
   10. Heart-Leaved Alexanders (Meadow Parsnip)
   11. Leafy Musineon
   12. Snakeroot
   13. Arrow-Leaved Balsamroot
   14. Black-Eyed Susan
   15. Brown-Eyed Susan
   16. Colorado Rubber Weed
   17. Prairie Coneflower
   18. Stemless Rubber Weed (Butte Marigold)
   19. Yellow Evening Primrose
   20. Yellow Beardtongue (Yellow Penstemon)
   21. Yellow Monkeyflower
   22. Golden Corydalis
   23. Twining Honeysuckle
   24. Yellowbell
   25. Prairie Rocket
   26. Soopolallie (Canadian Buffaloberry)
   27. Wolf Willow (Silverberry)
   28. Yellow Lady’s Slipper
   29. Buffalo Bean (Golden Bean)
   30. Caragana
   31. Cushion Milk Vetch
   32. Field Locoweed
   33. Yellow Hedysarum
   34. Yellow Sweet Clover
   35. Agrimony
   36. Early Cinquefoil
   37. Shrubby Cinquefoil
   38. Narrow-Petalled Stonecrop (Wormleaf Stonecrop)
   39. Jewelweed (Touch-Me-Not)
   40. Yellow Wood Violet
   41. Yellow Pond Lily (Yellow Water Lily)
8. Glossary
9. About the Author