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  • Comandra umbellata / bastard toadflax

    • teeny, funnel-shaped white-ish flowers in clusters
    • small plants, thick-ish, pointy stem leaves; more oval basal leaves
    • clonal - may colonize large areas

  • Erigeron speciosus / aspen fleabane

    • prolific purple-ish flowers with many "petals" and a yellow center
    • forest openings and edges, meadows
    • late blooming - a "fall aster"

  • Heterotheca villosa / hairy goldenaster

    • yellow composite with 10-20 ray florets, orange-brown disk
    • hairy leaves and stems
    • blooms throughout season, often densely
    • disturbed and challenging habitats

  • Packera cana / woolly groundsel

    • yellow, daisy-like blossoms with 8-13 ray florets ("petals")
    • golden, central disks
    • blossoms in flat-topped clusters of up to 15
    • mostly basal leaves - unlobed, hairy, ovate, up to 2 inches long
    • overall silvery appearance

  • Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel

    • yellow-flowered composite; "flowers" on branched inflorescence
    • 8-13 half-inch ray florets, usually spaced apart
    • thick, spatula-shaped basal leaves without teeth or clefts
    • thin, often deeply lobed stem leaves
    • dry woodlands and rocky places

  • Paxistima myrsinites / Oregon boxwood

    • low shrub
    • small, opposite leaves; lightly toothed, leathery, oval
    • very early spring flowering
    • teeny flowers with 4 red petals, 4 yellow stamens; in clusters
    • usually on open, dry, sunny sites or open forests

  • Sambucus nigra / common elderberry

    • shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
    • leaves opposite
    • pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
    • flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
    • "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature

  • Spiraea betulifolia / white spiraea

    • short (1-3 feet), dominant shrub in forest understory
    • rounded leaves with toothed outer margins
    • teeny flowers in flat-topped clusters up to 5" across
    • flowers are white with 5 petals and many stamens

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