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Rubus parviflorus / thimbleberry
- raspberry-like shrub usually in a clump
- white flowers with many stamens, up to 2.5 inches diameter
- large, fuzzy maple-like leaves
- blooms in spring; red, raspberry-like fruit in the fall
Rudbeckia occidentals / western coneflower
- dark cone-shaped flower head - like a sunflower without petals
- ring of yellow "bumps" visible during pollination time
- "cones" about 1" but double that when in seed.
- usually a tall plant with sunflower-like leaves
- alternate (not opposite) leaves
Senecio triangularis / arrowleaf ragwort
- leafy stems with arrow-shaped, coarse-toothed leaves
- often in large patches on moist soil
- clusters of yellow flower heads, each with 8-ish untidy ray florets
- numerous green involucral bracts, sometimes with black tips
- largest leaves occur mid-stem
Silene latifolia / white campion
- white, 5-petaled flowers with distinctive inflated calyx (bladder)
- flowers in clusters atop stems
- whole plant densely hairy
- widespread on alkaline soils (e.g. the Valley)
Sonchus arvensis / field sowthistle
- yellow dandelion-like
- multiple flowers per stalk
- often in patches in wet fields
- leaves spiney but without lobes, clasping the stems
- often several stems from a single point at the soil level
Taraxia tanacetifolia / tansyleaf evening primrose
- single, sessile, bright yellow, cup shaped flowers; 4 petals
- grows as a rosette, flat to the ground
- leaves are up to 12 inches long; very deeply lobed
- still blooming in mid-October; starts in mid summer
- grows on sandy/gravelly soil, e.g. drying lake beds
Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
Tragopogon spp. / salsify
- large yellow inflorescence with pointy sepals extending past the "flower"
- grass-like leaves
- non-native, weed
- widespread
Tripleurospermum inodorum / scentless chamomile
- daisy-like blossoms with finely divided leaves
- central disk shape changes from button- to dome- to hemisphere- with age
- ray petals droop as disk expands
- leaves don't smell when crushed
Veratrum californicum / California false hellebore
- huge inflorescence covered with one-inch-plus flowers
- six white tepals with green centers
- moist areas, possibly very dense stands
- foot-long, heavily veined, pleated bright green leaves