[Columbia and Great Basins Wildflower ID Key- 5 Petals]
The Buttercup Family East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington

The Ranunculaceae

Columbia Monkshood: Aconitum columbianum ssp. columbianum

Columbia Monkshood: Aconitum columbianum ssp. columbianum
Members of the Buttercup Family Found East of the Cascade Mts. of Oregon & Washington:

Monkshood Aconitum columbianum: Deep blue flowers irregularly shaped, with upper sepal formed into an arched, concave, beaked cap. lateral sepals large and oval, and much larger than the two small, linear sepals. Flowers arranged into a tall spike or raceme. Leaves palmately compound, and mostly on the stem.

Baneberry Actaea rubra

Pheasant Eye, Summer Adonis: Adonis aestivalis

Anemones, Pasqueflowers & Windflowers: The Genus Anemone

Columbines: The Genus Aquilegia

Marsh Marigolds: The Genus Caltha

The Clematis: The Genus Clematis

The Larkspurs or Delphiniums: The Genus Delphinium

The Mousetails: The Genus Myosaurus

The Buttercups: The Genus Ranunculus

Meadowrues: The Genus Thalictrum

Western False Bugbane Trautvetteria caroliniensis:

American Globeflower: Trollius laxus var. albiflorus -

Paul Slichter E-mail