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  • Allium schoenoprasum / chives

    • globe-shaped umbels of pink flowers with darker midveins (stripes)
    • hollow, tubular leaves and flower stalks
    • smells like onions
    • grows from bulbs in clumps or sometimes individually
    • wild in wetlands, fens, meadows; cultivated in gardens

  • Apocynum cannabinum / common dogbane

    • herbaceous perennial with red stems and long/narrow leaves
    • leaves have prominent veins
    • leaves and stems exude white latex if broken
    • white, bell-shaped flowers held erect in stalked clusters
    • seedpods long, thin and brownish; in pairs
    • often near streams or in moist places

  • 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!

  • Carex spectabilis / showy sedge

    • roadsides or in wet and seasonally flooded meadows
    • showy inflorescences... yellow (stamens) above white (stigmas) on a purple background
    • grass/iris-like leaves up to 2 feet tall

  • Ceanothus velutinus / snowbrush

    • waist-high, exposed evergreen shrub
    • aromatic in hot weather or when leaves are crushed
    • shiny (sticky) green leaves, ca. 3"; 3 prominent veins
    • 4" clusters of teeny white/cream flowers
    • in disturbed areas, particularly burned areas

  • Corydalis aurea / scrambled eggs

    • prostrate herb, up to 15" tall
    • moist but well-drained soils, including on roadsides
    • yellow tubular flowers, with spurs
    • highly dissected leaves, blue-grey except when young
    • fruits are pod-like, resembling peas or beans

  • Eriophorum angustifolium / narrow-leaved cottongrass

    • limited to bogs/fens with standing water
    • "just a pointy-leaved plant" until the fruit develops
    • fruits are big white, cotton-like tufts

  • Hackelia patens / spotted stickseed

    • small (but not teeny) white, 5-petaled flowers with delicate blue stripes at bases
    • stamens arising from a "hole" in the middle of the flowers where petals are fused
    • usually around sage, in early spring
    • fruits are obnoxious - but small - burs (nutlets) that stick to everything

  • Hesperostipa comata / needle and thread

    • widely spaced bunchgrass
    • glossy leaves, smooth stem
    • narrow inflorescence with long awns (hairs)
    • sharp, needle-like seed retaining the awn
    • drought tolerant

  • Lotus corniculatus / birds-foot trefoil

    • roadsides and other disturbed areas
    • numerous bright yellow, pea-like flowers
    • three, oval and pointed leaflets
    • seed pods are arranged like toes on a bird's foot

  • Packera multilobata / lobeleaf groundsel

    • deeply lobed leaves, mostly at the base of the plant
    • bright yellow daisy-like flowers, 10-30 in a cluster per plant
    • orange-yellow disk florets
    • woodlands, foothills, and generally dry/ sandy/ rocky places.

  • Poa bulbosa / bulbous meadow-grass

    • short, tuft-forming grass
    • funny-looking flower stalks... having bulblets instead of florets
    • doesn't produce pollen or seeds

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