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  • Lactuca pulchella / blue lettuce

    • looks like prickly lettuce, but blue and without prickly stems or leaves
    • clonal from spreading roots

  • Lomatium triternatum / nineleaf biscuitroot

    • flowers soon after snowmelt
    • yellow compound umbel on leafless stem
    • leaves are three-fold compound; leaflets grass-like
    • may be tall with wide umbels on good soil
    • may be very short with small umbels on rocky, sandy, low nutrient soil

  • Malva neglecta / cheeseweed

    • leaves look like grocery store geraniums (Pelargonium)
    • flowers are small, pink-ish and often buried in the foliage
    • fruits are small (ca. 1/2 in) and round

  • Mentha canadensis / American cornmint

    • crushed leaves smell like peppermint
    • clusters of teeny white-blue-pink flowers in the axils of stem leaves
    • square stems, lance-shaped leaves
    • shaded, moist areas
    • may form large clones

  • 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

  • Nasturtium officinale / watercress

    • emergent aquatic in slow-ish flowing steams
    • four petaled white flowers in clusters
    • thick, shiny leaves
    • often in dense colonies

  • Oenothera villosa / hairy evening primrose

    • yellow flowers on tall stalks, several flowers in a cluster
    • 4 petals; 8 stamens; large, 4 part stigma
    • hairy - often reddish -  stems; hairy leaves
    • lance-shaped leaves, larger on stem than basal
    • disturbed areas and stream banks

  • Orogenia linearifolia / Indian potato

    • spring ephemeral, found only at snowmelt
    • very small plant, teeny flowers and teeny umbels
    • white flowers with purple dots (stamens)
    • grass-like leaves

  • Perideridia montana / Gairdner’s yampah

    • white, compound umbel (like all the rest of the family)
    • apparently leafless much of the time, especially when blooming

  • Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed

    • long, prostrate stems around a central point
    • copious red-edged white flowers
    • small green leaves
    • along roadsides, parking lots and wherever trampling occurs
    • an ugly weed you'll see on most of your walks around town

  • Prosartes trachycarpa / rough-fruited fairybells

    • heart-shaped, clasping leaves with parallel veins
    • pendant white flowers with 6 petals/tepals, often obscured by leaves
    • round, yellow then orange then red fruits with rough surface in late summer
    • moist forest understoreys

  • Prunella vulgaris / self-heal

    • compact spike of tiny purple, mint-like flowers
    • upper/lower lips purple and white respectively
    • square stems, opposite leaves

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