May 28 flowers on the Orchard Cove Trail

Medicago lupulina (black medic),  in the pea family

Verbena bracteata, in the vervain family

Rosa woodsii, in the rose family

Oxalis dillenii, in the wood sorrel family

Potentilla norvegica (rough cinquefoil), in the rose family

Lupinus argenteus (silvery lupine), in the pea family

Geranium caespitosum, in the geranium family

Gaura coccinea (scarlet gaura), in the evening-primrose family

Yucca glauca (narrow-leaved yucca), in the agave family

Sphaeralcea coccinea (scarlet globemallow), in the mallow family

May 10 flowers on the South Valley Loop

Oxytropis lambertii (Colorado loco), in the pea family

Lithospermum incisum (narrow-leaved puccoon), in the borage family

Adenolinum lewisii (blue flax), in the flax family

Eriogonum umbellatum (sulfur flower), in the buckwheat family

Erysimum asperum (wallflower), in the mustard family 

Castilleja sessiliflora (plains paintbrush), in the figwort family

Packera plattensis (prairie groundsel), in the aster family

Scutellaria britonii (skullcap), in the mint family

Townsendia grandiflora (showy Townsendia), in the aster family

Linaria dalmatica (Dalmation toadflax), in the figwort family

Nothocalais cuspidata (prairie false dandelion), in the aster family

May 5 wildflowers on the Mill Creek Link Trail

Harbouria trachypleura (whiskbroom parsley), in the parsley family

Comandra umbellata (bastard toadflax), in the sandalwood family

bastard toadflax

Coryphantha missouriensis (mesa nipple cactus), in the cactus family

Corallorhiza maculata (spotted coralroot), in the orchid family

Evolvulus nuttallianus (Nuttall morning glory), in the morning glory family