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Lithophragma parviflorum / smallflower woodland star
- small, white (or mauve) flowers with 5 highly disected petals
- up to 14 flowers per stalk, usually much less
- deeply lobed, glandularly pubescent leaves at stem bases
- spring bloomer in a wide variety of habitats
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Lithospermum ruderale / Columbia puccoon
- small, pale yellow flowers in early spring
- flowers in dense clusters, nestled among the leaves
- 1–3 in. long, linear leaves, notably crowded on upper part of stems
- in dry areas, especially with sagebrush
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Lomatium dissectum / fernleaf biscuitroot
- blooms soon after snowmelt
- yellow or purple-ish flowers in compound umbels
- highly divided, fern-like leaves
- rocks, rocky soils, sagebrush communities
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Lomatium triternatum / nineleaf biscuitroot
- flowers soon after snowmelt
- yellow compound umbel on leafless stem
- leaves are three-fold compound; leaflets grass-like
- may be tall with wide umbels on good soil
- may be very short with small umbels on rocky, sandy, low nutrient soil
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Lonicera involucrata / twinberry honeysuckle
- flowers - inconspicuous, paired, yellow, bell-shaped with green bracts
- leaves - opposite, oval, often hairy beneath
- fruit - a pair of blue-black/purple berries with red, winglike bracts
- multi-stemmed shrub - to 15 feet tall
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Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle
- flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
- fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
- no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
- short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
- understory, especially in moist forests
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Lotus corniculatus / birds-foot trefoil
- roadsides and other disturbed areas
- numerous bright yellow, pea-like flowers
- three, oval and pointed leaflets
- seed pods are arranged like toes on a bird's foot
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Lupinus spp. / silvery and silky lupins
- palmately compound, usually silvery-green leaves
- 5-9 leaflets per leaf; long petioles
- flowers on long, spikey racemes, blooming from bottom upward
- numerous flowers, but all rather teeny; most purple or blue
- flowers are above the leaves
- seeds in short, hairy pods
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Madia glomerata / mountain tarweed
- stems, leaves, flowers - strongly aromatic, like tar
- sticky glandular hairs cover foliage and floral bracts
- flowers in clusters with 1 to 3 yellow ray florets
- disk florets retain visible petals; black stamens
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Mahonia repens / creeping Oregon grape
- pinnately compound with toothed, holly-like leaflets
- clusters of yellow flowers in spring; blue berries in late summer
- low, creeping shrub
- evergreen - but winter leaves are reddish
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Maianthemum racemosum / Solomon’s plume
- "feathery" inflorescence - panicle
- 6 white tepals on teeny flowers
- long-blooming in late spring, sometimes into summer
- green berries --> red as they ripen
- alternate, clasping leaves on erect stems
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Maianthemum stellatum / starry false Solomon’s seal
- blooms in late June (ish) in the Valley, mildly fragrant.
- teeny star-shaped flowers with 6 white tepals
- one inflorescence (raceme) per stem
- small berries progressing from green to purple to red with maturity
- alternate, long and narrow leaves clasping the stem
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