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Centaurea maculosa / spotted knapweed
- "vibrant" pink flowers
- dark tips on the sepals ("bud scales") - the "spotted" in the name
- biennial - rosette of leaves in first year
- officially a noxious weed
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Cerastium arvense / field chickweed
- Erect or trailing stems, if you can see them amongst the competition
- Clusters of 1 to many white flowers with 5 deeply cleft petals
- Petals much longer than the green sepals
- Opposite, linear, sessile leaves - not very long
- Cylindrical seed capsules with 10 teeth at top
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Cercocarpus ledifolius / curl-leaf mountain mahogany
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Chaenactis douglasii / Douglas dusty maiden
- leaves "woolly" or hairy; intricately divided
- leaf and lobe tips curled or twisted
- flowering stems coated with "cobwebby" hairs
- flower heads of white/pinkish tubular disk florets in a glandular cup
- forked styles protrude past tubes
- often in rocky areas and crevices
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Chamerion angustifolium / fireweed
- bright pink flowers on tall inflorescence (raceme)
- flowers mature from bottom to top
- four petals
- spiral leaf arrangement - lance-shaped leaves have smooth edges
- pod-like seed capsule releases seeds to the wind
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Chara contraria / Chara
- plant-like rooted aquatic alga
- green "stem" with whorls of green "leaves"
- rough feeling due to carbonate encrustations
- river bottom but other waters, including stock tanks
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Chenopodium album / lamb’s quarters
- green, nobbly inflorescence - many nob-like flowers
- leaves grey-green, more or less triangular
- leaves may feel cool to the touch
- widespread weed, especially in disturbed habitats
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Chimaphila umbellata / pipsissewa
- small herb/forb
- shiny, toothed lance point leaves
- half-inch, pink and white, upside down flowers
- flowers in umbel like cluster
- flowers with minimally visible style
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Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock
- HIGHLY TOXIC
- primarily on continuously wet soils, e.g. ditches, stream banks, pond margins, marshes.
- white compound umbel inflorescence typical of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae
- multiply compound leaves with prominent veins ending in notches between lobes
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Cirsium arvense / Canada thistle
- purple or lavender clearly-thistle flower heads
- multiple small flower heads per stem
- deeply lobed, spiny leaves, but stems not spiny
- clonal and perennial
- in clumps or along roads, sometimes quite large/long
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Cirsium hookerianum / Hooker’s thistle
- clearly a thistle, but with white flowers
- native but not plentiful
- seen at Mahogany Creek in mid-August
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Cirsium scariosum / elk thistle
- usually tall, quite prickly thistle with deeply lobed, spiny leaves
- large, lavender (pink to purple) flowers hidden by the long leaves
- covered with white hairs giving it a silvery look overall
- in moist areas, in full sun
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