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  • Taraxacum officinale / dandelion

    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
  • Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage

    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
  • Thlaspi arvense / field pennycress

    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
  • Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass

    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
  • Valeriana edulis / hairy valerian

    Valeriana edulis / hairy valerian

    • long-lived, herbaceous, dioecious perennial - limited to marshes and fens
    • grass-like basal leaves; pin-like lobed, stem leaves
    • teeny male flowers, white with five fused petals
    • sub-millimeter female flowers
    • male and female flowers usually on different plants
    • overall plant stands out above wetland grasses, rushes etc.