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  • Stuckenia pectinata / sago pondweed

    • submerged aquatic - dominant in its habitat
    • grass-like (but not a grass); waves in the current
    • branched with ~5" pointed leaves

  • Symphiocarpos oreophilus / mountain snowberry

    • small pink (or white) bell or funnel shaped flowers, singly or in pairs
    • shrub - upright or spreading
    • most visible in late summer when the white "berries" ripen
    • in the open or in canopy gaps; along the sides Forest Service roads

  • Tanacetum vulgare / tansy

    • yellow, somewhat flattened, button-like flowers
    • pretty clearly in the aster family
    • camphor-ish smell
    • finely divided, fern-like compound leaves

  • Taraxia tanacetifolia / tansyleaf evening primrose

    • single, sessile, bright yellow, cup shaped flowers; 4 petals
    • grows as a rosette, flat to the ground
    • leaves are up to 12 inches long; very deeply lobed
    • still blooming in mid-October; starts in mid summer
    • grows on sandy/gravelly soil, e.g. drying lake beds

  • Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage

    • alpine or subalpine
    • on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
    • glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
    • teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
    • blooms in August at high altitudes

  • Tetradymia canescens / spineless horsebrush

    • shrub - up to 3 feet tall and across; round
    • small, yellow composite flowers in clusters of 4 to 8
    • dandelion-like seeds often present with flowers
    • primary leaves short and linear; long-lived
    • secondary leaves in axils of primaries are short-lived
    • primary leaves are not spines

  • Thalictrum occidentale / western meadow-rue

    • delicate compound leaves, each segment with 3 lobes
    • leaves "look like" columbine
    • male and female flowers on separate plants
    • all flowers teeny, in clumps, somewhat to really purple
    • in moist habitats, esp. stream banks in forests

  • Trifolium repens / white clover

    • the quintessential 3-leaf clover
    • white flower heads, tinged with pink (perhaps)
    • found in full sun with little other specific requirements
    • four leaflet leaves bring good luck

  • Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass

    • in bogs, fens, and roadsides through them
    • "grass-like" leaves - semicircular cross section with a groove down the middle
    • tall flowering spikes with many crowded, green/yellow-ish, teeny flowers
    • clonal, so often in widely spaced clumps

  • Triteleia grandiflora / wild hyacinth

    • terminal cluster of several, blue (to white) funnel-shaped flowers
    • 6 tepals, 3 of which look wrinkled; deep blue lines on each tepal
    • only 2-3 very long thin basal leaves
    • onion-like but not smelly
    • mostly in grasslands - late June, early July

  • Typha latifolia / cattail

    • tall, grass-like with thick, long, flat leaves
    • in wet areas, especially streams and stream banks
    • inflorescence club-like spike; yellow (male) above, green (female) below
    • seed head dark brown club, with bare spike above
    • fruits (seeds) white & fluffy, released in late summer, autumn, winter

  • Urtica dioica / stinging nettle

    • near streams and moist bogs, in woodland understories, disturbed places, wastelands
    • leaves - strongly serrated margin, a heart-shaped base, a pointed tip
    • flower - greenish or brownish in dense dangling clusters
    • nasty hairs that sting you

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