Basal Angiosperms and Early Eudicots

Floating aquatic plants with large round leaves and solitary flowers.

Nymphaeaceae

Great yellow pond-lily; perennial with 6-9 yellow sepals and thick rhizomes.

Nuphar polysepala

Buttercup family; characterized by numerous free stamens, petals, and carpels; highly poisonous.

Renunculaceae

Upland larkspur; zygomorphic violet flowers with 5 sepals and follicle fruits.

Delphinium nuttallianum

Colorado blue columbine; actinomorphic flowers with 5 free, superior carpels.

Aquilegia coerulea

Alpine buttercup; bright yellow, shiny flowers emerging immediately after snowmelt.

Ranunculus adoneus

Cut-leaf anemone; lacks true petals, featuring colorful modified sepals and achene fruits.

Anemone multifida

Poppy family; plants with milky or colored latex, 2 sepals, and capsule fruits.

Papaveraceae

Alpine poppy; tufted perennial with yellow flowers and 4-8 stigma rays.

Papaver radicatum

Crested prickly poppy; prickly annual/biennial with yellow latex and 150+ stamens.

Argemone polyanthemos

Golden corydalis; weak-stemmed zygomorphic herb with silique-like capsule fruit.

Corydalis aurea

Barberry family; shrubs or herbs with whorls of 3 and flap-valved anthers.

Berberidaceae

Oregon grape; low evergreen rhizomatous shrub with bright yellow inner wood and blue berries.

Berberis repens

Perennial herbs, often rock-dwelling, with 5 petals, 10 stamens, and half-inferior ovaries.

Saxifragaceae

Common alumroot; basal rosette with small urn-shaped flowers and half-inferior ovaries.

Heuchera parvifolia

Diamond leaf saxifrage; fleshy rhombic leaves and compact rounded cymose flower clusters.

Micranthes rhomboidea

Currant/gooseberry family; shrubs often featuring nodal spines and inferior ovaries with berries.

Grossulariaceae

Wax currant; unarmed deciduous shrub with waxy leaves and tubular pinkish-white flowers.

Ribes cereum

Stonecrop family; succulent herbs with fleshy leaves and 4-5 merous flowers.

Crassulaceae

Spearleaf stonecrop; succulent perennial with bright yellow petals and 5 superior ovaries.

Sedum lanceolatum

Rose crown; dioecious succulent with rose-pink to white petals and wet alpine habitat.

Rhodiola rhodantha

Grape family; woody vines climbing via tendrils opposite the leaves.

Vitaceae

River grape; woody deciduous vine with shredding bark and fragrant greenish flowers.

Vitis riparia

Wood sorrel family; features palmately heart-shaped leaflets that fold at night.

Oxalidaceae

Slender yellow wood sorrel; trifoliate herb with sour taste and yellow petals.

Oxalis dillenii