by Pat Jaquith
pat@westvalleynaturalists.org
The Spring Creek Cemetery was set aside from the unplowed prairie in the West Valley and remains largely unchanged. The following gallery of pictures are some of the plants that still grow among the mounds of Bluebunch wheatgrass in that reserved lot.
Editor’s note: This article is a companion article to Jeanine Buettner’s History of Spring Creek Cemetery. You may read that article here.
Artemisia ludoviciana (Wormwood) 
Antennaria microphylla (rosy pussytoes) 
Elymus spicatus (bluebunch wheatgrass)
Arnica sororia (meadow Arnica) 
Centauria maculosa (spotted knapweed) 
Calochortus apiculatus (3-spot mariposa lily) 
Lupinus sericius (silky lupine)
Carex filifolia (thread-leaved sedge) 
Castilleja cusickii (yellow paintbrush) 
Anemone multifida (cutleaved anemone) 
Delphinium nutallianum (upland larkspur) 
Erigeron sp 
Orthocarpus tenuifolius (Thin-leaved owl’s-clover) and Cheat grass
Artemisia frigida (fringed sage) 
Galium boreale (northern bedstraw) 
Geum triflorum (prairie smoke) 
Lithosperma ruderale (stoneseed) 
Potentilla gracilis (slender cinquefoil) 
Fritillaria pudica (yellow bell)
Carduus nutans (musk thistle) 
Potentilla arguta (white cinquefoil) 
Geranium viscosissimum (sticky geranium) 
Symphoricarpos albus (snowberry) 
Trapogon dubius (yellow salsify) 
Hieracium albiflorum (white hawkweed 
Penstemon confertus (yellow penstemon) 
Zigadenus venenosus (meadow death camus)
Thank you so very much for this information as within this cemetery rests many of my treasured Rhodes and Palmer families.
Dee (Rhodes)