Primulaceae

Primrose Family

• The Primrose Family has five stamens that are attached opposite the corolla lobes and inside the tube.
• Fairy Primrose is a small dainty plant growing in alpine areas. It has bright-yellow centers.
• Parry's Primrose is a larger and much taller plant. It can be found at the edge of water or in bogs. It grows in protected sites in subalpine and alpine zones.
• Rock Primrose has tiny white flowers on leafless stems. It is found in forested and open sites from the foothills to the alpine tundra.
• Rock-Jasmine has small flowers with yellow centers and forms dense clusters. It is found on the alpine tundra.
• Western Shooting Star has clusters of bright lavender to pink flowers. The corolla lobes are turned back from the dark-colored anthers. The flowers are on leafless stalks. It blooms along stream banks and wet subalpine meadows.

Western Shooting Star

Dodecatheon pulchellum

Primulaceae

Boraginaceae

Borage Family

• In the Borage Family, the stamens are attached to the corolla tube and alternate with corrolla lobes.
• Chiming Bells have dusty blue flowers that hang in clusters. It forms large clumps along streams or in wet places.
• Narrow-leaf Puccoon usually has several plants in a clump. The corolla has a slender tube and the corolla lobes are finely toothed. It is found in dry valleys and slopes of the lower montane zone.
• Bushy Cryptantha has one to several stout stems. It is common on dry foothill slopes.
• Alpine Forget-me-not forms a cushion in alpine meadows. The small leaves are covered with long woolly hairs. It is a bright-blue, yellow-eyed flower.

Campanulaceae

Bellflower Family

• Most flowers in this group are known by their bell-shaped corollas. Lobelia is also in the group but has bilateral symmetry.
• Harebell does look like a bell. It hangs from slender stems. It is common from the foothills to alpine areas. On rare occassions a white form may be seen.
• Parry's Harebell has one-flowered stems. The corolla is more erect than the common harebell and has a more open funnel shape. It also is more deeply lobed than the harebell. It is found in the montane and subalpine zones.

Parry's Harebell

Campanula parryi

Campanulaceae