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  • Prunus virginiana / western chokecherry

    • oval leaves with serrated margins and abrupt taper at tip
    • reddish twigs with prominent lenticels
    • drooping clumps of white flowers w/ yellow centers in spring
    • red to black cherries in fall, up to ½ inch diameter
    • leaves turn orange or yellow in fall

  • Pteridium aquilinum / common bracken

    • a fern with large, triangular fronds, up to 4 ft tall
    • fronds subdivided into triangular leaflets
    • herbaceous perennial
    • deciduous with annual regrowth first appearing as fiddleheads in spring
    • wide range of habitats, including full sun

  • Ribes aureum / golden current

    • shrub up to 10 feet tall
    • spring bloomer, golden yellow flower in clusters
    • small, maple-like leaves
    • 1/2 inch berries in late summer, golden to black

  • Ribes hudsonianum / northern black currant

    • moist wooded areas, streambanks
    • erect, spike-like inflorescences with up to 50 white flowers
    • bitter berries, ripening to black
    • leaves and stems covered with resinous glands
    • leaves 3-5 lobed, glandular below
    • smells bad

  • Ribes lacustre / prickly currant

    • deeply lobed, maple-like leaves
    • prickly stems with spines at nodes
    • shrub to ca. 4 feet tall
    • teeny cream & purple flowers in dangling clusters in spring
    • red berries in late summer maturing to very small black berries

  • Ribes viscosissimum / sticky currant

    • shrub to 7 feet tall
    • stem and leaves covered with sticky, glandular hairs
    • white, bell-like flowers in drooping or erect clusters (up to 15)
    • rough leaves, 3-5 equal lobes, toothed margins
    • fragrant flowers and leaves

  • Rubus parviflorus / thimbleberry

    • raspberry-like shrub usually in a clump
    • white flowers with many stamens, up to 2.5 inches diameter
    • large, fuzzy maple-like leaves
    • blooms in spring; red, raspberry-like fruit in the fall

  • 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

  • Sambucus nigra / common elderberry

    • shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
    • leaves opposite
    • pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
    • flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
    • "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature

  • Shepherdia canadensis / Canadian buffaloberry

    • deciduous shrub, opposite branches and leaves; understory
    • trichomes (hairs) on lower, often upper surfaces.
    • lower surface has rust-colored scales
    • teeny yellowish flowers before leaves appear; male and female on separate plants
    • red or orange, oval fruits with one stony seed; soapy when crushed

  • Streptopus amplexifolius / white twisted-stalk

    • creeping herb
    • oval, clasping leaves; parallel veins; sharp tip
    • pronounced stem "kink" at each node gives twisted look
    • drooping, cream-colored flowers, 6 recurved tepals, borne singly
    • single, elongated red berries in fall
    • found in moist undergrowth

  • 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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