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Mertensia ciliata / mountain bluebells
- taller than others bluebells - up to four feet
- often forms dense stands by streams and seeps
- flowers dark blue, bell-shaped, held on one side of stem
- leaves blue-green, pointed, with prominent veins, marginal pointy hairs
Micranthes odontoloma / brook saxifrage
- streamsides (or in the streams) especially at higher elevations
- white petals with beautiful red center
- yellow/green spots on the petals
- multiple drooping flowers on foot-long, leafless stems
Neottia banksiana / northwestern twayblade
- orchid - with two stem-clasping leaves halfway up the stem
- moist, dim understory habitat, in clonal patches
- very small green orchid flower - 5 sickle-shaped petals and sepals, 1 broader green labellum (lip)
- small, insignificant and easily overlooked
Opuntia fragilis / brittle pricklypear
- smallest pricklypear cactus; potato-shaped pads
- pads separate with lightest bump
- seldom flowers or fruits
Opuntia polyacantha / starvation cactus
- yellow or peach, complex, many-petaled flowers
- large globose, pointed buds with reddish scales
- cactus pads with long or short spines and nasty glochids
Orthilia secunda / sidebell wintergreen
- evergreen herb or sub-shrub
- boggy understory and forest stream banks
- basal, egg-shaped leaves with prominent veins
- very small to teeny creamy or green-ish flowers all on one side of stem
Osmorhiza spp / sweet cicely
- broad compound, bluntly toothed, fern-like leaves 3 times compoundly divided
- compound umbels of tiny white flowers; May-June
- short, understory herb
Ozomelis stauropetala / side-flowered mitrewort
- teeny, white, star-like flowers spaced out on one side of a leafless stem
- basal leaves, slightly lobed
- understory in moist woods
Packera pseudaurea / falsegold groundsel
- yellow, flat-topped cluster of daisy-like flowers
- oval, erect basal leaves with long petioles and round/blunt-toothed edges
- generally in moist to wet habitats
Persicaria amphibia / water smartweed
- shocking pink flower clusters
- oval, leathery leaves
- either submerged or on stream or pond banks
Phacelia hastata / silverleaf scorpionweed
- flowers - dull white-ish/purple-ish, numerous in short, compact, coiled clusters
- stamens extend well past petals
- leaves - basal with prominent veins; usually covered with silvery hairs; usually entire
- multiple flowering stems on a single plant
- in a variety of habitats
Phalaris arundinacea / reed canarygrass
- large, coarse, erect grass
- long, flat blades with pointy tips... from base
- distinct ligule—membranous and long
- large but compact inflorescences (panicles)
- often in dense monocultures, e.g. on river banks