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CHART COURTESY OF FLATHEAD NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
WILDFLOWER BLOOM
SCHEDULE BY HABITAT
Blooming times overlap during the seasons and are influenced by many factors: im-
mediate and past precipitation, elevation and temperature of current seasons compared
to average. Many plants begin flowering at low elevations and bloom higher as summer
season progresses. Some habitat divisions used here have micro sites in them, such as
montane with moist, open, or dry areas which complicate plant species occurrence.
GRASSLAND
AND FOOTHILLS
buttercup
pasque flower
Scouler's willow
kittentails
yellow fritillary
bitterroot
arrowleaf balsamroot
Douglasia montana
rosy pussytoes
yellow penstemon
Alberta penstemon
shrubby cinquefoil
mountain lover
clarkia
silky lupine
blue flax
red paintbrush
nodding onion
princes' pine
thimbleberry
prairie smoke
MONTANE
FOREST
fairy bells
mountain maple
highbush cranberry
heartleaf arnica
Oregon grape
woodland star
cutleaf daisy
pointed mariposa lily
queencup bead lily
mountain lady slipper
kinnikinnick
blue camas
Canadian violet
roundleaf alumroot
bunchberry
orange honeysuckle
calypso orchid
woods rose
Utah honeysuckle
little blue violet
RIPARIAN
AND WETLANDS
mitella mitrewort
skunk cabbage
trillium
alpine laurel
water crowfoot
blue camas
marsh marigold
white rhododendron
American bistort
field mint
stream violet
butterwort
yellow monkeyflower
blue monkshood
coltsfoot
brook saxifrage
spotted saxifrage
Lewis monkeyflower
SUBALPINE
AND ALPINE
western spring beauty
steer's head
alpine chickweed
sticky arnica
alpine forget-me-not
parrot's beak
bear grass
alpine buttercup
American bistort
alpine wallflower
moss campion
rose root
alpine aster
smelowskia
Parry's townsendia
bronze bells
Cous biscuit root
white mountain avens
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
