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Cirsium vulgare / bull thistle
- very nasty spines all over, including stems
- purple flower head over pear/egg-shaped narrow, spiny bracts
- fruits are thistle-downy
- disturbed areas, but also forest gaps, stream sides and seeps
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Claytonia lanceolata / lanceleaf spring beauty
- small, very early spring, ephemeral
- 5 white or pink-ish petals with pink/purple stripes
- pair of opposite leaves at mid-stem; lanceolate
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Clematis hirsutissima / hairy clematis
- striking, purple, upside-down vase
- four hairy sepals (not actually petals) fused to make the vase
- one flower per stem
- leaves divided into narrow leaflets
- moist or seasonally moist meadows
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Clematis occidentalis / purple clematis
- grows as a vine with hairy stems - on ground, over logs or up trees
- leaves are trifoliate
- flowers have 4 "petals" and hang down (nodding)
- thick central core of stamens and pistils
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Collinsia parviflora / maiden blue-eyed Mary
- inconspicuous
- teeny blue and white flowers, singly or in small clusters
- reddish stems and buds more visible than the flowers
- wide variety of habitats, bare rocks to marshy fens
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Collomia linearis / tiny trumpet
- teeny, tubular, lilac to white flowers
- flowers in clusters at top of stem in a basket of leaves
- velvety stem; long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves
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Comandra umbellata / bastard toadflax
- teeny, funnel-shaped white-ish flowers in clusters
- small plants, thick-ish, pointy stem leaves; more oval basal leaves
- clonal - may colonize large areas
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Convulvulus arvensis / field bindweed
- prostrate and twining vine with white "morning-glory" flowers
- may be so dense as to choke out other plants
- roadsides, agricultural fields, waste areas
- "noxious" in Idaho
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Corallorhiza maculata / spotted coralroot
- short, brown/red leafless flowering stalk, often in clumps
- intricate all brown/red-ish flowers except for a white lower lip, with reddish spots
- in conifer or aspen forest understory
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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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Cornus sericea / red osier dogwood
- shrub with opposite branching and red bark, brightest in fall/winter
- common along streams especially
- small white flowers, 4 petals, in clusters
- white or blue-ish white berries in fall
- opposite leaves with parallel veins
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