Ding dong, who am I?
Bluebell (Borage Family).
Do you know me?
You'll find me in along rocky ridges and in thin basaltic soils... not in American Express ads. Bitterroot (Purslane Family).
I'm as yellow as ...
butter. Sagebrush buttercup (Buttercup Family).
I'm now a popular rock garden flower.
Tweedy's Lewisia (Purslane Family).
I'm spotted...
so why am I a Tiger Lily? (Lily Family).
Before all the shootings
'Columbine' (Buttercup Family) had such a nice connotation.
Who am I?
Scarlet gilia (Phlox Family), although 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Scarlet is so vain, we're giving you another look a her.
The hard thing behind me is part of my name?
Sure enough. Worm-leaf stonecrop (Stonecrop Family).
I'm one of the earliest flowers to repopulate burned areas.
Fireweed (Onagraceae Family).
We emerge right after mountain snows melt.
Glacier lilies (Lily Family).
Hi ho sailor.
Call me Hooker's balsamroot (Sunflower or Compositae Family).
I'm one of three cacti types in Washington State.
Pediocactus or hedgehog cactus (Cactus Family).
Here's a close-up of my flower which is quite distinctive.
Shooting star (Primrose Family).
I'm flumoxed.
Wait, wait...actually I'm phlox (Phlox Family).
Don't call me a daisy.
Call me a linear-leaf daisy (Sunflower or Compositae Family).
Qu' est-ce? Hint: My name has a ton of vowels.
Brodiaea (Lily Family).
Some call me lomatium (Parsley Family). Others say I'm bare-stem desert parsley.
Poison anyone?
Yup, larkspur (Buttercup Family) is toxic.
My common name has much to do with the curvature of my neck.
Fiddle-neck (Borage Family). Fiddle-neck is a native plant that likes disturbed soil.
I must have gotten lost?
Oregon grape seems an inappropriate plant for Central Washington.
Try me, you'll like me.
Not a chance. Death camas (Lily Family) is poisonous.
I'm low to the ground and inconspicuous...a real wallflower.
Dwarf waterleaf of the Waterleaf Family (Hydrophyllacecae)
I'm an early bloomer.
Prairie star flower (Saxifrage Family).
One of the most prominent flowers of our foothills.
Arrow-leaf balsamroot. (Sunflower, Aster or Compositae Family).
You know spring has sprung when you see this beauty.
Spring beauty (Purslane Family).
Another of the earliest spring bloomers.
Yellowbells (Lily Family). The leaves of lilies have parallel veins and the sepals and petals of the flowers appear in sets of three.
Is this a weed?
Nope, it's puccoon a native plant (Borage Family) that was once used for a variety of medicinal purposes.
Here's a better look at the flowers of puccoon.
Tea anyone?
The dried and crushed leaves of yarrow (Sunflower or Compositae Family) make a minty tea. Yarrow is an incredibly adapatable plant that tolerates many different habitats.
I'm gangly and my flowers turn into little nut-like seeds that stick to clothes and fur. Who am I?
Sagebrush stickseed (Borage Family).
The buck stops here.
We know it's part of the Buckwheat Family (Polygonaceae) but we're at fault for not being sure which desert buckwheat we photographed in the Sage Hills. Our best guess: parsley desert buckwheat.
Can you identify these cones?
The hedgeghog-like cone on top is ponderosa pine. The smaller cone with the 'rat tails' on bottom is Douglas fir.
Name these three plants.
Top left: lupine. Top right: puccoon. Center bottom: arrow-leaf balsamroot.
Smell me.
Wild onion (Lily Family).
Do you know me? My flowers and leaves are small, but I'm part of a big bush.
Here's a close-up of my flower which you'll find on the bushes we call bitterbrush (Rose Family).
Which lily am I?
Cats-ear lily (Lily Family).
Some form of Indian paintbrush (Figwort Family).
You better know me -- I'm everywhere.
This is what happens when my flower goes to seed.
I'm a form of lupine (Pea Family). Even though my pods looks like peas, don't eat me unless you want to get sick..
I have a festival named after me.
The Apple Blossom Festival . I guess I'm not really wild.
If you didn't get at least half of these right, here's our reaction...come back later and take the quiz again.
