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Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel
- early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
- bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
- only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
- cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
- seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen
Silene latifolia / white campion
- white, 5-petaled flowers with distinctive inflated calyx (bladder)
- flowers in clusters atop stems
- whole plant densely hairy
- widespread on alkaline soils (e.g. the Valley)
Solanum physalifolium / ground cherry nightshade
- flowers look like potato or tomato flowers
- small white, 5 recurved petals
- clump of yellow stamens protrude from flower
- triangular leaves with wedge-shaped bases
- usually sprawling on ground
Sorbus scopulina / western mountain ash
- moderate sized shrub with pinnately compound leaves
- 9-13 leaflets per leaf (usually)
- teeny white flowers in large rounded clusters
- yellow berries in August become bright red in September
- rocky hillsides, creek sides, open woods
Spiraea betulifolia / white spiraea
- short (1-3 feet), dominant shrub in forest understory
- rounded leaves with toothed outer margins
- teeny flowers in flat-topped clusters up to 5" across
- flowers are white with 5 petals and many stamens
Stuckenia pectinata / sago pondweed
- submerged aquatic - dominant in its habitat
- grass-like (but not a grass); waves in the current
- branched with ~5" pointed leaves
Symphiocarpos oreophilus / mountain snowberry
- small pink (or white) bell or funnel shaped flowers, singly or in pairs
- shrub - upright or spreading
- most visible in late summer when the white "berries" ripen
- in the open or in canopy gaps; along the sides Forest Service roads
Thalictrum occidentale / western meadow-rue
- delicate compound leaves, each segment with 3 lobes
- leaves "look like" columbine
- male and female flowers on separate plants
- all flowers teeny, in clumps, somewhat to really purple
- in moist habitats, esp. stream banks in forests
Thlaspi arvense / field pennycress
- inflorescence a raceme with white, teeny flowers
- oval seed pods ca. 1/3" across
- blooms late spring and summer
- continues blooming as pods fill from older flowers
- common weed in disturbed habitats including cultivated land
Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover
- a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
- leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
- leaves on long petioles
- flower heads on long peduncles,
Trifolium repens / white clover
- the quintessential 3-leaf clover
- white flower heads, tinged with pink (perhaps)
- found in full sun with little other specific requirements
- four leaflet leaves bring good luck