raceme
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Corallorhiza striata / striped coralroot
- short and purple - no green bits
- forest understory
- up to 35 flowers per stalk; often many stalks together
- flowers have 5 pointy, purple striped "petals" and one darker lower lip petal
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Corallorhiza wisteriana / spring coralroot
- small, easily missed in the forest duff
- no leaves, no green parts
- flowers have white lips, possible spots, no eared tabs
- scape (flowering stalk) purple, or yellow, or brown
- may stay dormant for years at a time
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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
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Cynoglossum officinale / houndstongue
- reddish-purple flowers in upper leaf axils
- forms basal rosette with hairy leaves in first year
- stem leaves lance shaped, hairy, rough
- fruit - small nutlets with barbs or hooks
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Delphinium x occidentale / tall larkspur
- white with blue center, long white spur (tail) out the back
- flowers on tall racemes, up to 6 feet - more than 50 per stalk
- highly divided/lobed leaves
- flowers look a lot like garden larkspurs
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Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard
- another stupid yellow crucifer
- erect stem, up to 30 inches
- deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
- often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils
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Doellingeria engelmannii / Engelmann’s aster
- shade tolerant - in mountain woods and meadows
- late summer/autumn blooming
- each blossom/flower has only a few curly rays around a yellow disk
- ray florets mostly white, but possibly pink or blue
- ovate leaves, mostly hairless and sessile; prominent veins.
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Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass
- teeny, often silvery plant with teeny yellow 4-petal flowers
- rosette leaves have trichomes even when not really silvery
- annual ephemeral seen soon after snowmelt
- usually exposed near or on rocks, dry slopes
- flat, elliptical seed capsules
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Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass
- cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
- flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
- flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
- beautifully straw colored in fall
- common but rarely abundant; many habitats
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Erysimum capitatum / western wallflower
- yellow (usually) 4-petaled flowers at top of stem
- inflorescence may be as big as a baseball, and round
- mostly basal rosette of leaves
- cauline leaves narrow with small teeth
- siliques horizontal to nearly vertical; relatively long
- variety of habitats, but not wetlands
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Erysimum cheiranthoides / wormseed wallflower
- yellow, 4-petaled flower, less than 1/3 inch across
- lance shaped or elliptical, sessile leaves varying little in size or shape
- leaf margins entire or coarsely toothed
- ribbed stems
- ascending or erect siliques with short pedicels
- disturbed and waste areas
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Erythranthe guttata / seep monkeyflower
- yellow flowers with red spots in clumps of 5 or more
- flowers large for the plant, but otherwise "normal" size
- two "lips" - lower lip larger than upper, each with 2 petals
- found in wetlands of all kinds
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