5. Olympic Mountain synthyris, Synthyris pinnatifida var. lanuginosa

Still looking for this one.... but here's the lowdown on it as near as I can tell.....

Synthyris are also called kittentails because the flower clusters look a little like the tail of a kitten when the kitten is alarmed.  The flowers are deep blue to purple with the long stamens giving the cluster of small flowers a fuzzy look.  The leaves are fern-like in shape (highly lobed) and a greyish-green in color.  The Olympic variety, lanuginosa, is noticeably hairier than the other 2 inland varieties and white-woolly all over. 

Of course, unless you are confused as to which mountain range you are in, you are not likely to confuse the 3 different varieties of S. pinnaftifida.  If you are in the Olympics, you are looking at variety lanuginosa.  If you are in Idaho, Montana, and points south or east, well, it could be variety pinnatifia or variety canescens, but it ain't lanuginosa.  To me, the flower most like to confuse with the Olympic Mt. synthyris is the silky phacelia (Phacelia sericea).  They have similar blue puff balls of small clustered flowers and grey-green, deeply lobed leaves.  I'm working on a description to tell them apart.