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  • Cerastium arvense / field chickweed

    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
  • Chenopodium album / lamb's quarters

    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
  • Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock

    Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock

    • HIGHLY TOXIC
    • primarily on continuously wet soils, e.g. ditches, stream banks, pond margins, marshes.
    • white compound umbel inflorescence typical of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae
    • multiply compound leaves with prominent veins ending in notches between lobes
  • Collinsia parviflora / maiden blue-eyed Mary

    Collinsia parviflora / maiden blue-eyed Mary

    • inconspicuous
    • teeny blue and white flowers, singly or in small clusters
    • reddish stems and buds more visible than the flowers
    • wide variety of habitats, bare rocks to marshy fens
  • Collomia linearis / tiny trumpet

    Collomia linearis / tiny trumpet

    • teeny, tubular, lilac to white flowers
    • flowers in clusters at top of stem in a basket of leaves
    • velvety stem; long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves
  • Comandra umbellata / bastard toadflax

    Comandra umbellata / bastard toadflax

    • teeny, funnel-shaped white-ish flowers in clusters
    • small plants, thick-ish, pointy stem leaves; more oval basal leaves
    • clonal - may colonize large areas
  • Corallorhiza wisteriana / spring coralroot

    Corallorhiza wisteriana / spring coralroot

    • small, easily missed in the forest duff
    • no leaves, no green parts
    • flowers have white lips, possible spots, no eared tabs
    • scape (flowering stalk) purple, or yellow, or brown
    • may stay dormant for years at a time
  • Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard

    Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard

    • another stupid yellow crucifer
    • erect stem, up to 30 inches
    • deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
    • often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils
  • Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    • PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
    • Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
    • Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
    • Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils
  • Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass

    Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass

    • teeny, often silvery plant with teeny yellow 4-petal flowers
    • rosette leaves have trichomes even when not really silvery
    • annual ephemeral seen soon after snowmelt
    • usually exposed near or on rocks, dry slopes
    • flat, elliptical seed capsules
  • Elodea canadensis / Elodea

    Elodea canadensis / Elodea

    • submerged with a stem and whorls of small, oblong leaves
    • usually has 3 leaves per node
    • leaf whorls denser near the growing tips
    • stems may be quite long or floating as fragmented bits
  • Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed

    Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed

    • small flowers... pink to purple to white
    • four, very deeply notched petals
    • narrow, very long fruit; downy seeds