Green

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  • Acer glabrum / Rocky Mountain maple

    • understory shrub, small tree, multiple stems
    • opposite leaves; red twigs
    • maple-like leaves
    • teeny flowers; double-helicopter fruits

  • Amaranthus retroflexus / pigweed

    • green bottle-brush inflorescence
    • accomplished weed on disturbed sites (including road & driveway cracks)
    • often in gardens, farm fields (edges), roadsides

  • Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas

    • cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
    • branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
    • 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
    • grass/lily-like leaves
    • blooms in summer (July/August)

  • 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

  • Betula pumila / bog birch

    • limited to bogs/fens/swamps and wetlands
    • shrub to about 6 feet tall
    • reddish bark on twigs
    • leaves rounded-fan shaped, ca. 1 inch; coarsely toothed
    • inflorescences - catkins (cone-like); separate male and female

  • 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

  • Bromus tectorum / cheatgrass

    • short bunchgrass, 2 to 30 in at floweirng
    • panicle with all florets to one side; long awns
    • early season growth, flowering, seed drop
    • florets green, turning purple as seeds mature
    • highly invasive!

  • 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

  • Dactylis glomerata / orchardgrass

    • perennial bunchgrass
    • branched inflorescence with lowest branch well below the others
    • spikelets wedge-shaped, flattened in tight clusters
    • florets green to red/purple tinged; grey-brown when seeds mature
    • introduced and widespread, but not in wet areas

  • Danthonia californica / California oatgrass

    • medium-sized, cool season bunchgrass
    • florets widely spaced with long stalks on an open panicle
    • may have flowering stems that appear wiry and crinkled
    • when flowering, stamens are purple

  • Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass

    • cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
    • flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
    • flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
    • beautifully straw colored in fall
    • common but rarely abundant; many habitats

  • Frasera speciosa / monument plant

    • striking, 4 petal flowers - green and white with purple flecks
    • flowers held close in to stem
    • tall flowering stalk (to chest high) from a base of large, elongated rosette leaves

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