normal
you know, just sort of normal
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Aconitum columbianum / monkshood
- brilliant blue/purple - ish; mixed colors or white
- petal-like sepals form the hood
- palmate, deeply-lobed & toothed leaves
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Agoseris aurantiaca / orange mountain dandelion
- unusual burnt-orange color
- basically - looks like an orange dandelion
- linear leaves - unlike the "real" dandelion
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Agoseris glauca / yellow false dandelion
- yellow, dandelion-like flower - same size and color
- long-ish, thin leaves growing at ground level (a rosette); no lobes or pointy bits
- blooms in spring and summer
- shade intolerant but on sites ranging from moderately dry to wet
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Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry
- erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
- usually several trunks
- compact, fragrant white flower clusters
- star-like flowers
- smallish, light-green, oval leaves
- small, edible blue "berries" by July
- red/orange fall leaf color
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Anemone multifida / cutleaf windflower
- usually 5 bi-colored "petals" - esp. pink or white; many stamens
- leaves deeply cut and re-cut in 3s with rounded or pointed tips
- stems and lower leaf surfaces usually hairy
- gone to seed, fruits have a troll-doll look
- on calcareous ledges, in shallow crevices or rocky outcrops; dry mountain tops or near water
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Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms in summer (July/August)
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Aquilegia coerulea / Colorado blue columbine
- blue to white to pink or yellow tinged
- long spurs (tails) as long as the petals are large
- blooms late spring and July (stragglers in August)
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Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
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Arnica cordifolia / heartleaf arnica
- yellow, daisy-like flowers; 1-2 per shoot
- opposite, heart shaped leaves; long petioles; 2-4 pair per stem
- large clonal colonies with many flowering and non-flowering shoots
- the dominant ground cover in moderate shade in many forests
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Astragalus purshii / woollypod milkvetch
- low growing, silvery, compound leaves; no tendrils
- magenta (or white) "pea-like" flowers with darker keel petal
- "congested" inflorescence
- found in very dry areas, not in shade
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Calochortus nuttallii / sego lily
- 3 large white petals
- purple spots that border yellow glands
- tangle of hairs (a "beard") at the base of the petals
- but... very variable arrangement of spots, hairs etc.
- rocky, exposed sites
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Calypso bulbosa / eastern fairy-slipper
- pink/magenta/mauve/purple orchid
- lighter lower lip highlighted with purple veins; star-like petals and sepals
- pointy bract behind flower
- single oval, wrinkled leaf at ground level
- about 6 inches tall
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