Mears Trail Botanical Species List

Mears Trail from Trailhead to Beaver Belfast Mine

Courtesy of Peggy Lyon, Botanist 

species                                          common name

Abies lasiocarpa                             Subalpine Fir  

Achillea lanulosa                            Yarrow

Actaea rubra                                  Baneberry

Agrostis scabra                              Rough Bentgrass

Anaphalis margaritacea                  Pearly Everlasting

Androsace septentrionalis               Rock Jasmine

Antennaria rosea                            Rosy Pussytoes

Aquilegia coerulea                          Colorado Blue Columbine

Aster foliaceous                              Leafy Bract Aster

Aster foliaceous                              Leafy aster

Betula glandulosa                           Bog Birch

Boecheria drummondii                    Drummond's Rockcress

Bromus ciliatus                               Fringed Brome

Calamagrostis canadensis               Bluejoint Grass

Campanula rotundifolia                   Harebell

Carex geyeri                                   Elk Sedge

Carex occidentalis                           Western Sedge

Carex utriculata                              Beaked Sedge

Castilleja linariifolia                        Wyoming Indian Paintbrush

Chamerion danielsii                        Fireweed

Cirsium arvense*                            Canada Thistle

Cirsium parryi                                Parry's Thistle

Cystopteris fragilis                          Brittle Fern

Dactylis glomerata                         Orchard Grass

Distegia involucrata                        Twinberry

Dugaldia hoopsii                            Orange Sneezeweed

Epilobium hornemannii                   Hornemann's Willowherb

Erigeron flagellaris                          Trailing Fleabane

Erigeron speciosus                          Aspen Daisy

Festuca thurberi                             Thurber Fescue

Fragaria virginiana                         Wild Strawberry

Silene drummondii                          Drummond's Campion

Geum macrophyllum                       Large-leaf Avens

Heliomeris multiflora                      Golden-eye Daisy

Heracleum lanatum                        Cow Parsnip

Heterotheca villosa                         Golden Aster

Heuchera parvifolia                        Littleleaf Alumroot

Juncus balticus                               Baltic Rush

Juncus longistylis                            Longstyle Rush

Juncus mertensianus                       Merten's Rush

Juniperus communis                       Common Juniper

Koeleria macrantha                        JunegrAmerican Red ass

Leucanthemum vulgare *                Ox-eye Daisy

Lupinus polyphyllus var. prunophilus Chokecherry Lupine

Lupinus bakeri                                Baker's Lupine

Mahonia repens                             Oregon Grape

Maianthemum stellatum                 Starry False Solomonseal

Mimulus guttatus                           Seep Monkeyflower

Artemisa dracunculus                     Wild Tarragon

Padus virginiana                             Chokecherry

Paxistima myrsinites                       Mountain Lover

Pedicularis groenlandica                  Elephant's Head

Penstemon whippleanus                  Whipple's Penstemon

Phleum pratense*                           Timothy

Picea engelmannii                          Engelmann Spruce

Picea pungens                                Blue Spruce

Pneumonanthe parryi                     Bottle Gentian

Poa palustris                                  Fowl Bluegrass

Poa pratensis*                               Kentucky bluegrass

Polemonium foliosissimum              Towering Jacob's Ladder

Populus tremuloides                       Quaking Aspen

Potentilla hippiana                         Wooly Cinquefoil

Potentilla pulcherrima                     Beautiful Cinquefoil

Potentilla pulcherrima x hippiana     Hybrid Cinquefoil

Pseudocymopterus montanus          Mountain Parsley

Ribes inerme                                  Western Gooseberry

Rosa woodsii                                  Wild rose

Rubus idaeus                                 American Red Raspberry

Rumex crispus*                              Curly Dock

Salix monticola                               Mountain Willow

Salix planifolia                                Planeleaf Willow

Sambucus microbotrys                    Red Elderberry

Senecio eremophilus                       Desert Ragwort

Solidago simplex                            Mount Alber Goldenrod

Symphoricarpos oreophilus              Mountain Snowberry

Taraxacum officinale*                     Common Dandelion

Thalictrum fendleri                         Fendler's Meadowrue

Tragogpogon dubius*                     Western Salsify

Trifolium repens*                           White Clover

Urtica gracilis                                 Stinging Nettle

Vaccinium myrtilus                         Whortleberry