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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drymocallis arguta / tall cinquefoil

    • yellow flowers, 5 petals with pointy green sepals between
    • many stamens; central disk of yellow pistils
    • flowers in clusters with short stems (cyme)
    • most leaves basal - pinnately compound, coarsely toothed, obovate
    • many soil types, but not overly moist
  • Elodea canadensis / Elodea

    • submerged with a stem and whorls of small, oblong leaves
    • usually has 3 leaves per node
    • leaf whorls denser near the growing tips
    • stems may be quite long or floating as fragmented bits

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