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Achillea millefolium / yarrow
- common - white umbrella-type flower
- feathery leaves
- clonal; often found in patches
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Allium schoenoprasum / chives
- globe-shaped umbels of pink flowers with darker midveins (stripes)
- hollow, tubular leaves and flower stalks
- smells like onions
- grows from bulbs in clumps or sometimes individually
- wild in wetlands, fens, meadows; cultivated in gardens
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Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort
- short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
- short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
- seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
- disturbed sites of any kind
- often in dense populations
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Antennaria spp. / pussytoes
- small clusters of white flowers, often fringed with red
- flowers look like a cat's toes, sort of
- newest leaves silvery/hairy
- exposed, in many different habitats
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Apocynum androsaemifolium / spreading dogbane
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short and spreading perennial
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oval leaves with pointed tips, prominent veins
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clusters of teeny, pink, bell-shaped flowers with recurved petals
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conspicuous darker pink stripes on inner surface of corolla
- exudes milky sap when stems or leaves are broken
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Apocynum cannabinum / common dogbane
- herbaceous perennial with red stems and long/narrow leaves
- leaves have prominent veins
- leaves and stems exude white latex if broken
- white, bell-shaped flowers held erect in stalked clusters
- seedpods long, thin and brownish; in pairs
- often near streams or in moist places
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Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
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Argentina anserina / silverweed
- silvery, compound leaves on low, creeping stems
- yellow, 5+ petaled flowers; lots of stamens
- fens, other wetlands, but also roadsides
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Artemisia absinthium / wormwood
- deeply lobed leaves; grey-green (hairy); aromatic (like sage)
- stems to 4' tall; up to 20 per plant
- small clusters of teeny yellow flowers in drooping heads
- disturbed areas and may be weedy
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Artemisia ludoviciana / white sage
- low, spreading perennial - up to 3 feet tall
- silvery leaves and stems (hairy)
- leaves lance shaped, but sometimes lobed
- shoots die back in winter
- aromatic
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Artemisia tripartita / threetip sagebrush
- evergreen shrub; branches in broom-like clusters
- all parts covered with silvery/grey-green glandular hairs
- leaves long and very deeply, very distinctly 3-lobed
- flowers in spikes/racemes - all bits teeny, overall yellow-ish/reddish
- often with mountain big sagebrush on nutrient poor soils
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Astragalus miser / timber milkvetch
- compound leaves with small, egg-shaped leaflets
- teeny, pea-like flowers - bicolored but overall blue/purple
- keel tip is purple and pointed
- small, hairy seed pods
- grassland, meadows, and other open communities
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