drought tolerant
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Rumex crispus / curly dock
- rather large, lance-shaped leaves
- curly leaf margins, like crisped bacon or "crinkly-wavy"
- tall flowering stalks with many, many small yellow/green-ish flowers
- fruits are just like the flowers but deep red
- widespread and very much a weed
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Sedum lanceolatum / lanceleaf stonecrop
- bright yellow, star-shaped flowers (possible red tinge)
- fleshy/succulent, small leaves (green, yellow or red)
- open rocky outcrops, gravelly sites
- drought tolerant
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Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel
- early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
- bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
- only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
- cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
- seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen
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Solidago canadensis / goldenrod
- large sprays of yellow flowers in late summer and fall
- often tall and in large colonies
- lance-shaped, toothed leaves
- mostly (but not always) in disturbed areas
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Stenotus acaulis / stemless goldenweed
- very short, mat forming perennial yellow "daisy"
- thin, lance-shaped leaves, pointing upward
- yellow flower head with 6-15 ray florets, up to 50 disk florets
- in dry, rocky, open-scrub habitats
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Taraxacum officinale / dandelion
- rosette growth habit with lobed leaves
- yellow dandelion-like flowers - composites with only ray florets
- only one flower head per stem
- characteristic puff-ball seedheads
- found anywhere and anytime
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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
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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
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Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
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Turritis glabra / tower mustard
- long (3"-ish) stick-like seedpods, erect and hugging the stem
- nondescript mustard-family 4 petalled flowers in a cluster at the top
- tall stem with leaves clasping the stem (no petioles)
- generally in exposed, dry habitats
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Viola praemorsa / upland yellow violet
- yellow, 5-petals with purple "pencilling" on lower petals
- back sides up upper petals brown-ish
- leaves relatively thick, likely with many short hairs
- on dry, rocky soils, often with sagebrush or steep slopes
- soon after snowmelt; follows the snow up the mountains
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Viola vallicola / sagebrush violet
- early, bright yellow violet, usually in sagebrush
- lanceolate leaves with long petioles
- moderate purplish "pencilling" on lower petal; 1-2 lines on side petals
- back sides of petals usually yellow (not brown)
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