raceme
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Actaea rubra / red baneberry
- large, coarsely toothed, deeply lobed compound leaves
- clusters of teeny white flowers that look feathery or fluffy (due to stamens)
- green berries in late summer, maturing to red or white
- black dot at tip of each berry
- moist understory or shade
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Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort
- short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
- short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
- seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
- disturbed sites of any kind
- often in dense populations
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Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry
- erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
- usually several trunks
- compact, fragrant white flower clusters
- star-like flowers
- smallish, light-green, oval leaves
- small, edible blue "berries" by July
- red/orange fall leaf color
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Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms in summer (July/August)
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Artemisia ludoviciana / white sage
- low, spreading perennial - up to 3 feet tall
- silvery leaves and stems (hairy)
- leaves lance shaped, but sometimes lobed
- shoots die back in winter
- aromatic
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Artemisia tripartita / threetip sagebrush
- evergreen shrub; branches in broom-like clusters
- all parts covered with silvery/grey-green glandular hairs
- leaves long and very deeply, very distinctly 3-lobed
- flowers in spikes/racemes - all bits teeny, overall yellow-ish/reddish
- often with mountain big sagebrush on nutrient poor soils
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Astragalus miser / timber milkvetch
- compound leaves with small, egg-shaped leaflets
- teeny, pea-like flowers - bicolored but overall blue/purple
- keel tip is purple and pointed
- small, hairy seed pods
- grassland, meadows, and other open communities
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Astragalus purshii / woollypod milkvetch
- low growing, silvery, compound leaves; no tendrils
- magenta (or white) "pea-like" flowers with darker keel petal
- "congested" inflorescence
- found in very dry areas, not in shade
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Barbarea vulgaris / yellow rocket
- showy yellow brassica with relatively large flowers
- leaves deeply lobed with larger terminal lobe, smaller toward top of stems
- common on roadsides and waste places in spring
- siliques about an inch long and curving upward, with beaks and pedicels
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Beteroa incana / hoary alyssum
- dense clusters of teeny white flowers
- 4 petals, each with a notch
- fruit is a short, fat-ish seed pod (silicle)
- found in pastures and all manner of disturbed habitats
- toxic to horses
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Bistorta bistortoides / American bistort
- rocky areas, tundra/alpine
- inflorescence a 2" dense cylinder with many teeny white flowers
- notable protruding stamens
- leaves basal, long/thin and leathery
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Boechera pauciflora / elegant rockcress
- small, insignificant brassica on rocky soils, with sagebrush
- rosette of small, hairy, spatulate leaves
- single flowering stalk, 6" or more tall, covered with clasping, hairy leaves
- flowers 4-petals, purple (usually) flowers with yellow centers
- may be seen after snowmelt parasitized with yellow pseudoflowers
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