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Achillea millefolium / yarrow
- common - white umbrella-type flower
- feathery leaves
- clonal; often found in patches
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Allium acuminatum – tapertip onion
- umbels with 10-40 flowers atop a tall scape
- 6 magenta (or white) tepals per flower
- few leaves and all withered prior to flowering
- dry hillsides, sun-exposed rocky meadows and slope, volcanic areas
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Allium brevistylum / short-styled onion
- clusters of 7-15 urn-shaped flowers atop a single flowering stalk
- pink with 6 tepals
- leaves much shorter than the inflorescence
- leaves grow from base and are "grass-like"
- swampy meadows and along streams
- smells like onions/garlic
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Astragalus purshii / woollypod milkvetch
- low growing, silvery, compound leaves; no tendrils
- magenta (or white) "pea-like" flowers with darker keel petal
- "congested" inflorescence
- found in very dry areas, not in shade
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Boechera pauciflora / elegant rockcress
- small, insignificant brassica on rocky soils, with sagebrush
- rosette of small, hairy, spatulate leaves
- single flowering stalk, 6" or more tall, covered with clasping, hairy leaves
- flowers 4-petals, purple (usually) flowers with yellow centers
- may be seen after snowmelt parasitized with yellow pseudoflowers
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Boechera retrofracta / reflexed rockcress
- spring blooming crucifer (brassica)
- white or lavender, pendent, bell-shaped flowers
- many flowers on a single stalk (raceme)
- hairy rosette and stem leaves
- usually in rocky, sagebrush communities
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Calochortus nuttallii / sego lily
- 3 large white petals
- purple spots that border yellow glands
- tangle of hairs (a "beard") at the base of the petals
- but... very variable arrangement of spots, hairs etc.
- rocky, exposed sites
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Camassia quamash / small camas
- immediately visible for its star-shaped blue flowers and yellow anthers
- flowers borne on a spike-like raceme, opening from the bottom up
- multiple flowers open at one time
- leaves are grass-like, growing from a bulb
- large seed capsules with ca. 30 roundish black seeds, ripe in late summer
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Chimaphila umbellata / pipsissewa
- small herb/forb
- shiny, toothed lance point leaves
- half-inch, pink and white, upside down flowers
- flowers in umbel like cluster
- flowers with minimally visible style
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Claytonia lanceolata / lanceleaf spring beauty
- small, very early spring, ephemeral
- 5 white or pink-ish petals with pink/purple stripes
- pair of opposite leaves at mid-stem; lanceolate
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Corallorhiza maculata / spotted coralroot
- short, brown/red leafless flowering stalk, often in clumps
- intricate all brown/red-ish flowers except for a white lower lip, with reddish spots
- in conifer or aspen forest understory
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Corallorhiza striata / striped coralroot
- short and purple - no green bits
- forest understory
- up to 35 flowers per stalk; often many stalks together
- flowers have 5 pointy, purple striped "petals" and one darker lower lip petal
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