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Plantanthera unalascensis / slender-spire orchid
- teeny, green flowers, well-separated, not spiraled
- a "tall, thin, green nothing"
- basal leaves prostrate, but not appressed to the ground
- leaves often wither before pollination occurs
- found in many different habitats
Platanthera dilatata / white bog orchid
- dense cluster of bright white, clove or cinnamon scented flowers
- 2 wing-like sepals, a hood, and a lower lip with a spur
- 3-6 principle leaves... alternate, lance-shaped
- in boggy wet areas
Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed
- long, prostrate stems around a central point
- copious red-edged white flowers
- small green leaves
- along roadsides, parking lots and wherever trampling occurs
- an ugly weed you'll see on most of your walks around town
Populus angustifolia / narrow-leaf poplar
- a riparian tree also planted for landscaping
- long, narrow leaves with serrated edges
- furrowed, grey bark on mature trees; smooth and yellow-ish on young trees
- flowers are small, grey catkins in very early spring
- fruits are fluffy white cotton in early-mid summer
Potamogeton richardsonii / Richardson’s pondweed
- submerged aquatic with emergent inflorescence
- crinkly, broad-ish leaves which clasp the stem
- variable length internodes
- often tangled up with sago pondweed
Prunella vulgaris / self-heal
- compact spike of tiny purple, mint-like flowers
- upper/lower lips purple and white respectively
- square stems, opposite leaves
Ribes aureum / golden current
- shrub up to 10 feet tall
- spring bloomer, golden yellow flower in clusters
- small, maple-like leaves
- 1/2 inch berries in late summer, golden to black
Ribes hudsonianum / northern black currant
- moist wooded areas, streambanks
- erect, spike-like inflorescences with up to 50 white flowers
- bitter berries, ripening to black
- leaves and stems covered with resinous glands
- leaves 3-5 lobed, glandular below
- smells bad
Ribes lacustre / prickly currant
- deeply lobed, maple-like leaves
- prickly stems with spines at nodes
- shrub to ca. 4 feet tall
- teeny cream & purple flowers in dangling clusters in spring
- red berries in late summer maturing to very small black berries
Rumex acetosella / sheep sorrel
- long, vertical inflorescences... not compact or well "organized"
- female plants with red/maroon flowers; males with green/white flowers
- especially visible when seeds are ripe... red
- basal rosette of arrowhead shaped leaves
- disturbed areas, wastelands, poor sites
Salix glauca / grayleaf willow
- very low-growing shrub at high altitude (alpine/subalpine)
- rounded to lance-shaped leaves; smooth below
- large-ish catkin inflorescences
Sambucus nigra / common elderberry
- shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
- leaves opposite
- pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
- flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
- "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature