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Geranium viscossisimum / sticky geranium
- mauve to pink to red to white flowers
- sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
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Geum macrophyllum / largeleaf avens
- yellow, 5-petaled flowers; not glossy
- many long styles in green center
- fruits look like little marbles covered with red velcro
- fruits and flowers present at the same time
- deeply divided, sessile leaves on flowering stems
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Geum triflorum / prairie smoke
- among the earliest bloomers in the spring
- clusters of nodding reddish, pink, maroon or purple flowers
- flowers in groups of 3
- distinctive fruit - like silvery-pink or mauve "troll dolls"
- in large populations, fruiting plants look (sort of) like smoke
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Goodyera oblongifolia / western rattlesnake plantain
- basal rosette of blue-green leaves with a white midvein
- single, leafless inflorescence stem
- greenish-white, stalkless flowers, often in a spiral
- the flowers have a hood, a short, pouch-like lip, and 2 flaring sepals
- usually found on the floor of coniferous forests
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Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed
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Hackelia micrantha / Jessica sticktight
- teeny blue flowers with yellow/white centers
- flowers appear singly or in groups above developing fruit
- inflorescence mostly on one side of the stem
- lower leaves long and narrow; upper leaves fewer and sessile
- fruit a pointy and tenacious nutlet
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Hackelia patens / spotted stickseed
- small (but not teeny) white, 5-petaled flowers with delicate blue stripes at bases
- stamens arising from a "hole" in the middle of the flowers where petals are fused
- usually around sage, in early spring
- fruits are obnoxious - but small - burs (nutlets) that stick to everything
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Hackelia spp. / stickseeds in general
- very small blue flowers
- inflorescence elongates with single flower at top
- more and more branches through the season
- nasty stickseed fruits mature below apex
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Hedysarum occidentale / western sweetvetch
- tall legume with hot pink flowers
- inflorescence several inches long; up to 80 flowers
- pinnately compound leaves with 9-21, inch-long leaflets
- higher elevations on drier, more rocky soils
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Helenium autumnale / common sneezeweed
- 2" flower head with nearly spherical central disk; numerous yellow rays
- found in moist areas in full or partial sun
- sessile or clasping lance shaped leaves on an angled and winged stem
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Helianthella uniflora / little sunflower
- short (for a sunflower)
- a single yellow, sun flower at the top of a hairy stem
- flowers are only 2-3 inches across
- leaves generally opposite with 3 prominent veins
- exposed on hillsides; shallow, but well-drained soil
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