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Festuca idahoensis / Idaho fescue
- a bunchgrass growing in very dense clumps
- over-winters green; an early green grass in spring
- green to blue-green to silvery green leaves
- individual flowers in clusters of hairy spikelets on branched panicles; very dark purple or green
- seeds have large spines (awns) at the tips
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Fragaria vesca / woodland strawberry
- trifoliate, light green markedly toothed leaves
- clusters of hairy, 5-petaled white flowers on a soft-hairy stem
- plants spread by stolons
- fruit (if any) red with bumps where the seeds are
- spring/early summer bloom
- widespread
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Frasera speciosa / monument plant
- striking, 4 petal flowers - green and white with purple flecks
- flowers held close in to stem
- tall flowering stalk (to chest high) from a base of large, elongated rosette leaves
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Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary
- uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
- six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
- six bright yellow anthers
- few, grass-like leaves
- usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest
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Fritillaria pudica / yellow fritillary
- small, lovely, unprepossessing lily
- a few, long, narrow leaves
- a single (or two) yellow, bell-shaped flower
- flowers turn brick red as they age
- blooms just after snowmelt and disappears quickly
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Gagea serotina / Snowdon lily
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Gaillardia aristata / common blanketflower
- bright red petals with yellow tips, or yellow petals the whole way
- reddish brown central disk
- attractive yellow seed balls with tufts of red hair all over
- leathery, slightly hairy leaves
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Galium borealis / northern bedstraw
- teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
- two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
- linear leaves - like rosemary
- smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws
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Galium triflorum / fragrant bedstraw
- low, herbaceous plant on forest floor
- whorls of thin, pointy leaves - 6 per whorl
- teeny, 4-petaled white flowers in groups of three
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Gentian affinis / pleated gentian
- brilliantly blue, funnel-shaped flowers
- petals (lobes) pointed, joined by ragged plaits
- flowers in clumps or singly at tops of stems
- leaves lanceolate and opposite on square stems.
- found in a variety of wet sites
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Gentiana calycosa / explorer’s gentian
- opposite, sessile leaves on unbranched stems; clonal
- deep blue funnel-shaped flowers with white throats and yellow spots
- 5 pointed petals with fringed pleats between them
- in wetter areas at higher elevations
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Geranium richardsonii / Richardson’s geranium
- white, or sometimes pink-ish, flowers
- non-sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
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