one to several flowers

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  • Physaria spp / twinpods

    • yet another very small yellow crucifer/brassica
    • densely hairy leaves, tapering to a petiole
    • bloom in early spring on minimal soil in rocky places
    • fruit characteristics TBPL

  • Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed

    • long, prostrate stems around a central point
    • copious red-edged white flowers
    • small green leaves
    • along roadsides, parking lots and wherever trampling occurs
    • an ugly weed you'll see on most of your walks around town

  • Potentilla gracilis / slender cinquefoil

    • yellow, 5-petaled flowers with many stamens
    • petals touch or overlap
    • leaves with 5-9 toothed, deeply cut lobes
    • leaves may be hairy, especially below
    • many different exposed habitats

  • Potentilla norvegica / rough cinquefoil

    • 5 yellow petals, not fused
    • 5 sepals longer than petals, esp. after flowering
    • numerous stamens and pistils
    • compound leaves with leaflets grouped in 3s
    • prominent veins; toothed margins
    • hairy stems
    • mostly in disturbed areas, including gardens

  • Primula parryi / Parry’s primrose

    • striking, bright magenta (or pink) flowers with yellow centers, 5 petals
    • 3 to 30 flowers per stalk
    • brilliant green foliage as a rosette
    • foliage releases horrible smell with the slightest touch
    • typically at higher altitudes in wet places

  • Prosartes trachycarpa / rough-fruited fairybells

    • heart-shaped, clasping leaves with parallel veins
    • pendant white flowers with 6 petals/tepals, often obscured by leaves
    • round, yellow then orange then red fruits with rough surface in late summer
    • moist forest understoreys

  • Ranunculus glaberrimus / sagebrush buttercup

    • one of the earliest spring flowers
    • yellow flowers, ca. 1" across
    • usually 5 shiny/waxy petals, numerous stamens
    • short, mostly elliptical leaves
    • in small to field-sized clumps
    • very poisonous

  • Ribes viscosissimum / sticky currant

    • shrub to 7 feet tall
    • stem and leaves covered with sticky, glandular hairs
    • white, bell-like flowers in drooping or erect clusters (up to 15)
    • rough leaves, 3-5 equal lobes, toothed margins
    • fragrant flowers and leaves

  • Rubus parviflorus / thimbleberry

    • raspberry-like shrub usually in a clump
    • white flowers with many stamens, up to 2.5 inches diameter
    • large, fuzzy maple-like leaves
    • blooms in spring; red, raspberry-like fruit in the fall

  • Scutellaria galericulata / marsh skullcap

    • riparian zones and wetlands
    • blue, trumpet shaped (legume) flowers; usually in pairs on same side of a stem
    • flowers not at the top of the stems
    • square stems, widely spaced opposite leaves; adjacent pairs at right angles

  • 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)

  • Sisymbrium altissimum / tumble mustard

    • inflorescence a raceme with yellow, teeny flowers
    • long, thin seed pods (siliques)
    • blooms throughout the spring and summer
    • shoots look like a bunch of sticks glued together
    • dries and breaks off, then tumbles

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