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  • Eriogonom spp. / wild buckwheat

    • short, with small leaves close to the ground
    • leaves persistent in winter, green and red
    • blossoms - cute little buttons that look like dried flowers; long-lasting
    • inflorescence - umbel or compound umbel
    • may be white, cream, yellow, pink, red; changeable with age

  • Eriophorum angustifolium / narrow-leaved cottongrass

    • limited to bogs/fens with standing water
    • "just a pointy-leaved plant" until the fruit develops
    • fruits are big white, cotton-like tufts

  • Galium borealis / northern bedstraw

    • teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
    • two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
    • linear leaves - like rosemary
    • smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws

  • Galium triflorum / fragrant bedstraw

    • low, herbaceous plant on forest floor
    • whorls of thin, pointy leaves - 6 per whorl
    • teeny, 4-petaled white flowers in groups of three

  • Goodyera oblongifolia / western rattlesnake plantain

    • basal rosette of blue-green leaves with a white midvein
    • single, leafless inflorescence stem
    • greenish-white, stalkless flowers, often in a spiral
    • the flowers have a hood, a short, pouch-like lip, and 2 flaring sepals
    • usually found on the floor of coniferous forests

  • Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed

  • Hackelia micrantha / Jessica sticktight

    • teeny blue flowers with yellow/white centers
    • flowers appear singly or in groups above developing fruit
    • inflorescence mostly on one side of the stem
    • lower leaves long and narrow; upper leaves fewer and sessile
    • fruit a pointy and tenacious nutlet

  • Hackelia spp. / stickseeds in general

    • very small blue flowers
    • inflorescence elongates with single flower at top
    • more and more branches through the season
    • nasty stickseed fruits mature below apex

  • Heracleum maximum / cow parsnip

    • very tall - stands above most other herbs and forbs
    • huge leaves with clasping sheaths at the stem junction
    • leaves lobed and like a very large maple
    • huge flat umbels with white flowers
    • grooved, woolly, stout stem

  • Heuchera parvifolia / littleleaf alumroot

    • subalpine, alpine... on rocks
    • clusters of round or kidney-shaped leaves
    • leaves lobed, all basal (no stem leaves)
    • inflorescences tower over leaves
    • clumps of teeny, yellow flowers along a spike-like flowering stalk

  • Huechera cylindrica / coral bells

    • oval-shaped leaves growing in clumps/tufts - all basal
    • leaf edges with small lobes or teeth
    • teeny pale yellow, creamy, green or pink flowers on a leafless stem
    • flowers more dense at top of spike than lower down
    • in woods, on cliff-side ledges, rocky slopes and subalpine meadows

  • Hydrophyllum capitatum / ballhead waterleaf

    • leaves to 10" tall, deeply lobed (7-11 lobes)
    • globe of purple-blue-white flowers below the leaves or at ground level
    • flowers are fuzzy while still in bud
    • rocky, shady, seasonally moist sites

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