Cream

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  • Drymocallis glandulosa / sticky cinquefoil

    • deeply lobed (almost compound) leaves (3-5 lobes)
    • clusters of cream or white 5-petaled flowers
    • pointy green sepals visible between non-overlapping petals
    • ≥25 stamens
    • sticky stems, involucres and buds (glandular hairs)

  • Orthilia secunda / sidebell wintergreen

    • evergreen herb or sub-shrub
    • boggy understory and forest stream banks
    • basal, egg-shaped leaves with prominent veins
    • very small to teeny creamy or green-ish flowers all on one side of stem

  • 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 crispus / curly dock

    • rather large, lance-shaped leaves
    • curly leaf margins, like crisped bacon or "crinkly-wavy"
    • tall flowering stalks with many, many small yellow/green-ish flowers
    • fruits are just like the flowers but deep red
    • widespread and very much a weed

  • 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

  • Streptopus amplexifolius / white twisted-stalk

    • creeping herb
    • oval, clasping leaves; parallel veins; sharp tip
    • pronounced stem "kink" at each node gives twisted look
    • drooping, cream-colored flowers, 6 recurved tepals, borne singly
    • single, elongated red berries in fall
    • found in moist undergrowth

  • Turritis glabra / tower mustard

    • long (3"-ish) stick-like seedpods, erect and hugging the stem
    • nondescript mustard-family 4 petalled flowers in a cluster at the top
    • tall stem with leaves clasping the stem (no petioles)
    • generally in exposed, dry habitats

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