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sacred datura, angel's trumpet (Datura innoxia)
angel's trumpet
Scientific Name Datura innoxia
Family Potato
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. var. atkinsoniana Atkinson's coreopsis Atkinson's tickseedAtkinson's coreopsis
Scientific Name Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. var. atkinsoniana
Family Composites, Sunflower
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Atkinson's coreopsis grows east of New Plymouth, ID, on low lying wet soils near the Payette River. It is a native plant in the western United states and British Columbia.
Native Yes
threadstalk milkvetch, basalt milkvetch (Astragalus filipes)
basalt milkvetch
Scientific Name Astragalus filipes
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
bastard toadflax (Comandra umbellata)bastard toadflax
Scientific Name Comandra umbellata
Plant Type Forb
Short Description
Native Yes
beargrass, squaw grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
beargrass
Scientific Name Xerophyllum tenax
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
prostrate vervain, bigbract verbena(Verbena bracteata)bigbract verbena
Scientific Name Verbena bracteata
Family Verbena
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
big-head clover (Trifolium macrocephalum)
big-head clover
Scientific Name Trifolium macrocephalum
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Pink and Yellowish
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
blue mountain buckwheat (EriogonumStrictum)birdnest buckwheat
Scientific Name Eriogonum nidularium Coville
Family Buckwheat
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
bog orchid (Habenaria dilatata)
bog orchid
Scientific Name Habenaria dilatata
Family Orchid
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Thin spikelike raceme of flowers.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Booths evening-primrose(Camissonia boothii )Booths evening-primrose
Scientific Name Camissonia boothii
Family Evening Primrose
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
California false hellebore, corn lily, skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum)California false hellebore
Scientific Name Veratrum californicum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No
calypso orchid, fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa )

calypso orchid
Scientific Name Calypso bulbosa
Family Orchid
Flower Color Pink, purple
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
cat-tail (Typha latifolia)
cat-tail
Scientific Name Typha latifolia
Family Cat-Tail
Flower Color Brown
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Tall perennial, creeping rhizomes.
Native Yes
Weed No
cleomella (Cleomella macbrideana)Cleomella
Scientific Name Cleomella macbrideana
Family Caper
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Short Description The cleomella pictured here was found on very poor, bare clay soil in the Succor Creek watershed.
Native Yes
Weed No
Clintonia, Queen's Cup (Clintonia uniflora)Clintonia
Scientific Name Clintonia uniflora
Family Lily
Flower Color Waxy white
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Short perennial, usually has single flowers.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
columbine (Aguilegia sp.)columbine
Scientific Name Aguilegia sp.
Family Buttercup
Flower Color White, yellow
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No
California false hellebore, corn lily, skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum)corn lily
Scientific Name Veratrum californicum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No
cous biscuit-root, cous-root desert-parsley (Lomatium cous)
cous biscuit-root
Scientific Name Lomatium cous
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
cous biscuit-root, cous-root desert-parsley (Lomatium cous)
cous-root desert-parsley
Scientific Name Lomatium cous
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Nicotiana attenuata (coyote tobacco)coyote tobacco
Scientific Name Nicotiana attenuata
Family Potato
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Cusick's Indian paintbrush (Castilleja cusickii)
Cusick's Indian paintbrush
Scientific Name Castilleja cusickii
Family Figwort or Snapdragon
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
thick-leaf thelypody, cut-leaf thelypody (Thelypodium laciniatum )
cut-leaf thelypody
Scientific Name Thelypodium laciniatum
Family Mustard
Flower Color White/Purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
wallflower phoenicaulis (Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Nutt.)daggerpod
Scientific Name Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Nutt.
Flower Color Purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
desert evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
desert evening primrose
Scientific Name Oenothera caespitosa
Family Evening Primrose
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
desert parsley, fernleaf biscuitroot, fern-leafed lomatium, fern-leafed desert parsley (Lomatium dissectum)desert parsley
Scientific Name Lomatium dissectum
Family Parsley
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Diverse-leafed Cinquefoil (Potentilla diversifolia)diverse-leafed cinquefoil
Scientific Name Potentilla diversifolia
Family Rose
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
turkey mullein, doveweed (Eremocarpus setigerus)doveweed
Scientific Name Eremocarpus setigerus
Family Spurge
Flower Color Light Green
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)Dutchman's breeches
Scientific Name Dicentra cucullaria
Family Bleeding heart or Fumatory
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Dutchman's breeches is a native wildflower that grows in a few partial shade sheltered canyon environments. These spots have more moisture than rangelands, but are not really wet soil.
Native Yes
calypso orchid, fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa )

fairy slipper
Scientific Name Calypso bulbosa
Family Orchid
Flower Color Pink, purple
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Wild Lily of the Valley (Smilacina stellata)false Solomons seal
Scientific Name Smilacina stellata
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Alternate zig-zag pattern of leaves and flowers.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
desert parsley, fernleaf biscuitroot, fern-leafed lomatium, fern-leafed desert parsley (Lomatium dissectum)fernleaf biscuitroot
Scientific Name Lomatium dissectum
Family Parsley
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
desert parsley, fernleaf biscuitroot, fern-leafed lomatium, fern-leafed desert parsley (Lomatium dissectum)fern-leafed desert parsley
Scientific Name Lomatium dissectum
Family Parsley
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
desert parsley, fernleaf biscuitroot, fern-leafed lomatium, fern-leafed desert parsley (Lomatium dissectum)fern-leafed lomatium
Scientific Name Lomatium dissectum
Family Parsley
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii )
firecracker penstemon
Scientific Name Penstemon eatonii
Family Figwort or Snapdragon
Flower Color Red
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Glacier Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

glacier lily
Scientific Name Erythronium grandiflorum
Family Lily
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No
gooseberryleaf globemallow (Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia)gooseberry leaf globe mallow
Scientific Name Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia
Family Mallow
Flower Color Orange, Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
gooseberryleaf globemallow (Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia)gooseberryleaf globemallow
Scientific Name Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia
Family Mallow
Flower Color Orange, Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
grand collomia (Collomia grandiflora)grand collomia
Scientific Name Collomia grandiflora
Family Phlox
Flower Color White, Orange
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Gray's lomatium, Gray's desert parsley (Lomatium grayi)
Gray's desert parsley
Scientific Name Lomatium grayi
Family Parsley
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Gray's lomatium, Gray's desert parsley (Lomatium grayi)
Gray's lomatium
Scientific Name Lomatium grayi
Family Parsley
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Green false Hellebore (Veratrum viride)
green false hellebore
Scientific Name Veratrum viride
Family Lily
Flower Color Green, mixed
Plant Type Forb
Short Description False hellebore is a common plant of mid and high elevation marshes, growing exclusively on soils that have a continual source of free water.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
grimy mousetail
Scientific Name Ivesia rhypara
Family Rose
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
ground nama (Nama aretioides)ground nama
Scientific Name Nama aretioides
Family Waterleaf
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
horsetail
Scientific Name Equisetum arvense
Family Horsetail
Flower Color -none-
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
big-head clover (Trifolium macrocephalum)
largehead clover
Scientific Name Trifolium macrocephalum
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Pink and Yellowish
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Lewis flax (Linum lewisii)Lewis flax
Scientific Name Linum lewisii
Family Flax
Flower Color Blue
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Low hawksbeard, modoc hawksbeard(Crepis modocensis)low hawksbeard
Scientific Name Crepis modocensis
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
meadow death camas, meadow deathcamas (Zigadenus venenosus)meadow death camas
Scientific Name Zigadenus venenosus
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
meadow death camas, meadow deathcamas (Zigadenus venenosus)meadow deathcamas
Scientific Name Zigadenus venenosus
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
prostrate spurge, milk spurge (Chamaesyce maculata)
milk spurge
Scientific Name Chamaesyce maculata
Family Spurge
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
Low hawksbeard, modoc hawksbeard(Crepis modocensis)modoc hawksbeard
Scientific Name Crepis modocensis
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
mountain death camas, mountain deathcamas (Zigadenus elegans)mountain death camas
Scientific Name Zigadenus elegans
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
mountain death camas, mountain deathcamas (Zigadenus elegans)mountain deathcamas
Scientific Name Zigadenus elegans
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
mountain lady's slipper(Cypripedium montanum)mountain lady's slipper
Scientific Name Cypripedium montanum
Family Orchid
Flower Color Brown and White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
sand lily, star lily, mountain lily (Leucocrinum montanum)mountain lily
Scientific Name Leucocrinum montanum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
narrow-leaf collomia (Collomia linean's)
narrow-leaf collomia
Scientific Name Collomia linearis
Family Phlox
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
oneflower helianthella, rocky mountain helianthella, rocky mountain little sunflower (Helianthella uniflora)
oneflower helianthella
Scientific Name Helianthella uniflora
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Brilliant Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
pale evening primrose(Oenothera pallida Lindl. )pale evening primrose
Scientific Name Oenothera pallida Lindl.
Family Evening Primrose
Flower Color Pale pink
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
pathfinder, trail plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
pathfinder
Scientific Name Adenocaulon bicolor
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Green, mixed
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Pellitory (Parietaria pensylvanica)
pellitory
Scientific Name Parietaria pensylvanica
Family Nettle
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
poverty sumpweed (Iva axillaris)poverty sumpweed
Scientific Name Iva axillaris
Family Composites, Sunflower
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Can be
prostrate spurge, milk spurge (Chamaesyce maculata)
prostrate spurge
Scientific Name Chamaesyce maculata
Family Spurge
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
prostrate vervain, bigbract verbena(Verbena bracteata)prostrate vervain
Scientific Name Verbena bracteata
Family Verbena
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Clintonia, Queen's Cup (Clintonia uniflora)Queen's Cup
Scientific Name Clintonia uniflora
Family Lily
Flower Color Waxy white
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Short perennial, usually has single flowers.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Rattlesnake Plantain (Goodyera oblongifolia)rattlesnake plantain
Scientific Name Goodyera oblongifolia
Family Orchid
Flower Color -dull-
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Forest floor. Leaves: White stripe on midrib
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
red globe mallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea)
red globe mallow
Scientific Name Sphaeralcea coccinea
Family Mallow
Flower Color Red, Orange
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Rigid Fiddleneck (Amsinckia retrorsa)rigid fiddleneck
Scientific Name Amsinckia retrorsa
Family Borage
Flower Color Orange, Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
oneflower helianthella, rocky mountain helianthella, rocky mountain little sunflower (Helianthella uniflora)
rocky mountain helianthella
Scientific Name Helianthella uniflora
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Brilliant Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
oneflower helianthella, rocky mountain helianthella, rocky mountain little sunflower (Helianthella uniflora)
rocky mountain little sunflower
Scientific Name Helianthella uniflora
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Brilliant Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
rush skeletonplant
Scientific Name Lygodesmia juncea
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
sacred datura, angel's trumpet (Datura innoxia)
sacred datura
Scientific Name Datura innoxia
Family Potato
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
sand dock (Rumex venosus)sand dock
Scientific Name Rumex venosus
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Pink and Yellowish
Plant Type Forb
Short Description perennial
Native Yes
Weed No
sand lily, star lily, mountain lily (Leucocrinum montanum)sand lily
Scientific Name Leucocrinum montanum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Scouringrush (Equisetum hyemale)scouringrush
Scientific Name Equisetum hyemale
Family Horsetail
Flower Color Brown
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
Searl's prairie clover (Dalea searlsiae)
Searl's prairie clover
Scientific Name Dalea searlsiae
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
sego lilysego lily
Scientific Name Calochortus nuttallii
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
showy townsend daisy (Townsendia florifer)showy townsend daisy
Scientific Name Townsendia florifer
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Annual plant..
Native Yes
silverleaf phacelia(Phacelia hastata)silverleaf phacelia
Scientific Name Phacelia hastata
Family Waterleaf
Flower Color Green, Red
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed Can be
California false hellebore, corn lily, skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum)skunk cabbage
Scientific Name Veratrum californicum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No
Slender phloxslender phlox
Scientific Name Microsteris gracilis
Family Phlox
Flower Color Light Pink
Plant Type Forb
Short Description A very tiny early spring flower.
Native Yes
small-flowered gaura (Gaura mollis)small-flowered gaura
Scientific Name Gaura mollis
Family Evening Primrose
Flower Color Pink, Green
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
small flower globe mallow (Sphaeralcea parvifolia)small flower globe mallow
Scientific Name Sphaeralcea parvifolia
Family Mallow
Flower Color Orange, Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Smartweed (Polygonum)smart weed
Scientific Name Polygonum
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Pink and Yellowish
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
Smartweed (Polygonum)smartweed
Scientific Name Polygonum
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Pink and Yellowish
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
beargrass, squaw grass (Xerophyllum tenax)
squaw grass
Scientific Name Xerophyllum tenax
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
sand lily, star lily, mountain lily (Leucocrinum montanum)star lily
Scientific Name Leucocrinum montanum
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Wild Lily of the Valley (Smilacina stellata)starry false lily of the valley
Scientific Name Smilacina stellata
Family Lily
Flower Color White
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Alternate zig-zag pattern of leaves and flowers.
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica)

stinging nettle
Scientific Name Urtica dioica
Family Nettle
Flower Color Green
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed Can be
sulphur-flowered buckwheat, sulphur buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)
sulphur buckwheat
Scientific Name Eriogonum umbellatum
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
sulphur-flowered buckwheat, sulphur buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)
sulphur-flowered buckwheat
Scientific Name Eriogonum umbellatum
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
thick-leaf thelypody, cut-leaf thelypody (Thelypodium laciniatum )
thick-leaf thelypody
Scientific Name Thelypodium laciniatum
Family Mustard
Flower Color White/Purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
threadstalk milkvetch, basalt milkvetch (Astragalus filipes)
threadstalk milkvetch
Scientific Name Astragalus filipes
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
narrow-leaf collomia (Collomia linean's)
tiny trumpet
Scientific Name Collomia linearis
Family Phlox
Flower Color Light purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
pathfinder, trail plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
trail plant
Scientific Name Adenocaulon bicolor
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Green, mixed
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
Trillium (Trillium ovatum)flower close-uptrillium
Scientific Name Trillium ovatum
Family Lily
Flower Color White to pink
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall
Native Yes
Weed No
turkey mullein, doveweed (Eremocarpus setigerus)turkey mullein
Scientific Name Eremocarpus setigerus
Family Spurge
Flower Color Light Green
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Tweedy's snowlover (Chionophila tweedyi)
Tweedy's snowlover
Scientific Name Chionophila tweedyi
Family Figwort or Snapdragon
Flower Color Pale lavender
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Tweedy's snowlover is a very common understory plant at elevations of 7,500 to 9,000 feet in the Central Mountains of Idaho.
Native Yes
Weed No
wallflower phoenicaulis (Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Nutt.)wallflower phoenicaulis
Scientific Name Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Nutt.
Flower Color Purple
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Water smartweed (Polygonum coccineum)water smartweed
Scientific Name Polygonum coccineum
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Pink
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
whitestem blazingstar (Mentzelia albicaulis)whitestem blazingstar
Scientific Name Mentzelia albicaulis
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
wild licorice (Glycyrrhiza lepidota)wild licorice
Scientific Name Glycyrrhiza lepidota
Family Legume or Pea
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
Wishbone-bush (Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa)
wishbone-bush
Scientific Name Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa
Plant Type Forb
Short Description perennial
Native Yes
Yellow Bell (Fritillaria pudica)yellowbell
Scientific Name Fritillaria pudica
Family Lily
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Location McCall and many locations
Native Yes
Weed No