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Perideridia montana / Gairdner’s yampah
- white, compound umbel (like all the rest of the family)
- apparently leafless much of the time, especially when blooming
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Phacelia sericea / silky phacelia
- deep purple flowers with really long stamens and orange anthers
- many flowers arranged in a tight coil up to 2 feet long
- silky, divided (fern-like) leaves
- exposed, higher altitude, rocky places; often with sagebrush
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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
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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
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Platanthera huronensis / green bog orchid
- usually in bogs, fens, wetlands
- up to two feet tall, but often shorter
- thick, nearly vertical leaves with parallel veins (i.e. grass-like)
- up to 75 very small flowers per stem (raceme)
- flowers -light green to greenish-white; two petals, three sepals, a lip and club-like spur
- lip is not pouch-like
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Ranunculus aquatilis / common water crowfoot
- found in slowly flowing water ways, ditches, ponds
- white, waxy flowers with yellow centers; 4 or 5 petals
- flowers raised a couple inches above the water surface
- usually grows in dense mats that look a lot like slime
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Sedum lanceolatum / lanceleaf stonecrop
- bright yellow, star-shaped flowers (possible red tinge)
- fleshy/succulent, small leaves (green, yellow or red)
- open rocky outcrops, gravelly sites
- drought tolerant
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Sisyrinchium idahoense / Idaho blue-eyed grass
- six blue, notched "petals" with yellow center
- single flower; naked stem
- narrow, grass-like, basal leaves
- fens and wet meadows
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Taraxacum officinale / dandelion
- rosette growth habit with lobed leaves
- yellow dandelion-like flowers - composites with only ray florets
- only one flower head per stem
- characteristic puff-ball seedheads
- found anywhere and anytime
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Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage
- alpine or subalpine
- on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
- glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
- teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
- blooms in August at high altitudes
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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
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Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass
- in bogs, fens, and roadsides through them
- "grass-like" leaves - semicircular cross section with a groove down the middle
- tall flowering spikes with many crowded, green/yellow-ish, teeny flowers
- clonal, so often in widely spaced clumps
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