Flower ID #11 – Utah!

1. Flower ID #11 – Utah!

2. Fruit is the barbed prickly burs • Flower May to July • Anti-tumor medicinal purpose • Weed along roads

3. 3 white petals and 3 sepals • Food source for pioneers and Native Americans • Cold Hardy • Take two years to • flower

4. Bounty • Invasive • Used as a blue dye and medicinal purpose in the 13th century.

5. Invasive • can produce more than 10,000 plants per square yard • Introduced into North America through soils brought by ocean-going vessels  • Huge Fire Hazards! • Germinates fall to winter

6. Lives in dry rocky soil • Blooms May to June • Only blooms in white

7. Live in dry areas or moist areas where vegetation is low • Increases in a drought • American Indians used the gummy secretions of curlycup gumweed to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and colic. Pawnee Indians boiled leaves and flowering tops to treat saddle sores and raw skin. Today, medicinal uses include treatment of bronchial spasm, whooping cough, asthma, and rashes caused by poison ivy. 

8. Is poisons towards humans, produces chemical compound alkaloid chelidonine • Native in the US • Bloom period is spring • Vegetative Spread Moderate

9. All plant parts are poisonous • 5 petals • Shape of umbrella • Smells musty

10. Flowers from June to September. Medium water need, medium salt tolerance but intolerant to shade.  They are a non-toxic sprawling to upright perennial plant with small, narrow, oval leaflets in 5's (3 at the tip).

11. Invasive • Stops the flow of blood from wounds • Flower in the spring • In grasslands and mountains

12. Found mainly on roadsides. • Long tubed shaped flowers. • Pale lavender. • Often fall over because • of their own weight.

13. Also known as “little flower” • Grows mostly in the Provo canyon. • Blossoms pink/lavender color. • Perennial.