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• Perennial herb from taproot/woody caudex

• Alternate, odd-pinnately compound, 15-25 gray-green, hairy leaflets

• Flowers white to cream with pale banner, wings, and keel

• Fruit an inflated papery legume

Astragalus drummondii

• Perennial herb, densely silvery-silky hairy throughout

• Alternate, palmately compound, 5-9 oblanceolate leaflets

• Flowers blue to purple, banner often with a white/yellow center spot

• Legume hairy; extremely common in CO mountains

Lupinus argenteus

• Perennial climbing/trailing vine via tendrils

• Alternate, pinnately compound, 8-14 leaflets

• Rachis terminates in a branched tendril

• Flowers blue-purple to reddish-purple

Vicia americana

• Perennial trailing vine from a massive tuberous root

• Strong fetid odor throughout; extremely drought-tolerant

• Leaves large, broadly triangular-cordate, rough-hairy

• Flowers large, yellow, trumpet-shaped; fruit spherical, green-striped

Cucurbita foetidissima

• Perennial herb, densely stellate-hairy throughout

• Leaves alternate, deeply 3-5 lobed to dissected, gray-green

• Flowers orange-red to scarlet

• Stamens numerous, filaments fused into a column around the style

Sphaeralcea coccinea

• Biennial or short-lived perennial with 2-forked appressed hairs

• Basal rosette of linear-oblanceolate leaves

• Petals bright orange-yellow, clawed

• Fruit a long, narrow, 4-angled silique

Erysimum capitatum

• Perennial herb from rhizomes, glabrous (hairless) throughout

• Leaves alternate, simple, broadly cordate to reniform (heart-shaped base)

• Flowers small, white

• Obligate wet sites, forming colonies along cold streams

Cardamine cordifolia

• Perennial herb forming cushion-like mats, densely stellate-hairy (silvery-gray)

• Leaves basal, thick, oblanceolate to spatulate

• Flowers small, bright yellow

• Fruit a distinctively inflated silicle (bladderpod)

Physaria montana

• Perennial herb from rhizomes, hemiparasitic on roots via haustoria

• Leaves alternate, simple, lanceolate to elliptic, pale blue-green, fleshy

• Flowers small, white to pinkish, with 5 petaloid tepals

• Fruit a drupe-like nut

Comandra umbellata

• Perennial herb, glandular-hairy, forming mounded clumps

• Leaves alternate and basal, palmately 5-lobed and deeply dissected

• Flowers pink to rose-purple, veined

• Style persistent, elongating in fruit into a coiling "cranesbill"

Geranium caespitosum

• Clonal perennial herb from rhizomes; dominant post-disturbance (fire/logging)

• Leaves alternate, lanceolate; lateral veins loop and join near margin

• Flowers rose-pink to magenta; stigma 4-lobed; in tall elongate racemes

• Capsules split to release masses of silky-comose seeds

Chamerion angustifolium

• Biennial with basal rosette first year, tall stout reddish stem second year

• Flowers open in the evening, moth-pollinated

• Petals bright yellow, large; stigma 4-lobed (X-shaped)

• Fruit a stout, 4-valved, cylindrical capsule

Oenothera biennis