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  • 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

  • Vaccinium membranaceum / thinleaf huckleberry

    • understory shrub, locally dominant
    • oval, alternate leaves
    • very small white/pink urn-shaped flowers
    • flowers in axils on red/yellow new growth
    • fruit - a bluish/purple to black, ¼" berry
    Also known as: tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, black huckleberry

  • Vaccinium scoparium / grouse whortleberry

    • low growing deciduous shrub
    • clonally spreading
    • green twigs and small (3/4 inch), oval, light green leaves
    • teeny, pendant, urn-shaped white/pink flowers
    • red berries in fall

  • Valeriana dioica / wood valerian

    • perennial herb, up to 18"
    • stem leaves lobed with egg-shaped "leaflets"
    • inflorescence - compact, round-topped umbel-like cluster; white flowers
    • flowers are teeny! ca. 1/8" with protruding stamens
    • mostly in dry to moist forests

  • Valeriana edulis / hairy valerian

    • long-lived, herbaceous, dioecious perennial - limited to marshes and fens
    • grass-like basal leaves; pin-like lobed, stem leaves
    • teeny male flowers, white with five fused petals
    • sub-millimeter female flowers
    • male and female flowers usually on different plants
    • overall plant stands out above wetland grasses, rushes etc.

  • Valeriana sitchensis / Sitka valerian

    • rhizomatous perennial - possibly in large colonies
    • sizable head of small white flowers; 5 petals
    • stamens extend beyond petals
    • leaves opposite, deeply lobed (almost compound)

  • Veratrum californicum / California false hellebore

    • huge inflorescence covered with one-inch-plus flowers
    • six white tepals with green centers
    • moist areas, possibly very dense stands
    • foot-long, heavily veined, pleated bright green leaves

  • Veronica americana / American brooklime

    • teeny, 4-petaled blue or violet-ish flowers, white centers
    • in small clumps on stream banks and in other very wet areas
    • may be found as a single plant or as a large and dense population - clonal

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