variable - elongated axis

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  • Melilotus spp / sweetclover

    • yellow or white, floppy, tubular flowers in long-ish clusters (racemes)
    • 3 small, pointy leaflets with petioles
    • rangy, unkempt branching
    • roadsides, waste places and sometimes in fields, grasslands

  • Micranthes odontoloma / brook saxifrage

    • streamsides (or in the streams) especially at higher elevations
    • white petals with beautiful red center
    • yellow/green spots on the petals
    • multiple drooping flowers on foot-long, leafless stems

  • Ozomelis stauropetala / side-flowered mitrewort

    • teeny, white, star-like flowers spaced out on one side of a leafless stem
    • basal leaves, slightly lobed
    • understory in moist woods

  • Pedicularis racemosa / leafy lousewort

    • clumps of plants with maroon stems in forest understory
    • white to pink flowers in upper leaf axils
    • flowers have beak-like upper lip and wide three-lobed lower lip
    • leaves narrow and tapering, slightly serrate, maroon when young

  • Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon

    • two-toned totally tubular flower (blue and pink-ish)
    • early spring to at least mid-summer
    • widespread in low disturbance habitats - even when rocky and "bare"

  • Penstemon rydbergii / Rydberg’s penstemon

    • small, blue/purple tubular flowers in leafy whorls
    • flowers lack glands or hairs
    • basal rosette of bright green, spoon-shaped leaves without glands or hairs
    • stem leaves are lanceolate, around flower clusters
    • wetter areas, but also along Victor/Driggs bike path

  • Persicaria amphibia / water smartweed

    • shocking pink flower clusters
    • oval, leathery leaves
    • either submerged or on stream or pond banks

  • Plantago major / broadleaf plantain

  • Pyrola asarifolia / pink pyrola

    • 4 to 25 nodding red (or pink) and white flowers in a loose raceme
    • round petals, edges often curved down
    • green style extends out of flower like elephant's trunk
    • flower stems may be over a foot tall
    • leaves are "liver" shaped or "ginger" shaped and shiny - round-ish but wider than long

  • Scrophularia lanceolate / lanceleaf figwort

    • teeny, snapdragon-like flowers
    • flowers urn-shaped with yellow with red or green on the outside
    • flowers look like they aren't yet opened
    • flowers on elongated panicle at the top of a tall-ish plant
    • opposite leaves like stinging nettle without the stingers
    • up to 5 feet tall in full sun/partial shade

  • Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas

    • cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
    • branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
    • 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
    • grass/lily-like leaves
    • blooms early in the season

  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica / blue water speedwell

    • small blue to mauve or lavender flowers; 4 petals
    • many flowers per stalk, but only a few blooming at once
    • opposite leaves tightly clasping the stems
    • in standing water or slowly moving streams

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