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Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush
- medium-sized grey-green shrub
- highly aromatic
- tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
- limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)
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Artemisia tripartita / threetip sagebrush
- evergreen shrub; branches in broom-like clusters
- all parts covered with silvery/grey-green glandular hairs
- leaves long and very deeply, very distinctly 3-lobed
- flowers in spikes/racemes - all bits teeny, overall yellow-ish/reddish
- often with mountain big sagebrush on nutrient poor soils
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Astragalus miser / timber milkvetch
- compound leaves with small, egg-shaped leaflets
- teeny, pea-like flowers - bicolored but overall blue/purple
- keel tip is purple and pointed
- small, hairy seed pods
- grassland, meadows, and other open communities
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Bassia scoparia / burningbush
- large, annual herb (forb)
- leaves long-ish and narrow
- inflorescence a highly branched spike with teeny green/yellow flowers
- may form huge, invasive colonies
- whole plant turns red in fall
- a tumbleweed
- especially in disturbed areas and wastelands in the Valley
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Beteroa incana / hoary alyssum
- dense clusters of teeny white flowers
- 4 petals, each with a notch
- fruit is a short, fat-ish seed pod (silicle)
- found in pastures and all manner of disturbed habitats
- toxic to horses
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Bistorta bistortoides / American bistort
- rocky areas, tundra/alpine
- inflorescence a 2" dense cylinder with many teeny white flowers
- notable protruding stamens
- leaves basal, long/thin and leathery
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Blitum nuttallianum / Nuttall’s povertyweed
- ugly little creeping plant from a central stem
- arrow-shaped leaves with two prominent lobes, especially on lower leaves
- teeny clusters of teeny greenish flowers; no petals; in most leaf axils
- widespread, but usually exposed and weed-like
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Boechera pauciflora / elegant rockcress
- small, insignificant brassica on rocky soils, with sagebrush
- rosette of small, hairy, spatulate leaves
- single flowering stalk, 6" or more tall, covered with clasping, hairy leaves
- flowers 4-petals, purple (usually) flowers with yellow centers
- may be seen after snowmelt parasitized with yellow pseudoflowers
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Capsella bursa-pastoris / shepherd’s purse
- small crucifer with terminal clusters of teeny white flowers
- rosette of small, maybe toothed, leaves
- very distinctive, notched, triangular fruits - like shepherd's "purses"
- found pretty much anywhere that has/had bare soil
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Cardamine hirsute / hairy bittercress
- small brassica/crucifer with compound leaves
- teeny white, 4 petal flowers with 4 stamens in racemic clumps
- a widespread weed, including gardens and lawns
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Cerastium arvense / field chickweed
- Erect or trailing stems, if you can see them amongst the competition
- Clusters of 1 to many white flowers with 5 deeply cleft petals
- Petals much longer than the green sepals
- Opposite, linear, sessile leaves - not very long
- Cylindrical seed capsules with 10 teeth at top
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Chenopodium album / lamb’s quarters
- green, nobbly inflorescence - many nob-like flowers
- leaves grey-green, more or less triangular
- leaves may feel cool to the touch
- widespread weed, especially in disturbed habitats
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