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Abies lasiocarpa / subalpine fir
- narrow, tall, sharply tipped trees
- cones purple and erect; disintegrate in the fall
- needles flattened, soft and blunt tipped, brushed upward
- needles sessile - no petioles or pegs
- leaf (needle) scars round
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Agoseris glauca / yellow false dandelion
- yellow, dandelion-like flower - same size and color
- long-ish, thin leaves growing at ground level (a rosette); no lobes or pointy bits
- blooms in spring and summer
- shade intolerant but on sites ranging from moderately dry to wet
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Allium acuminatum – tapertip onion
- umbels with 10-40 flowers atop a tall scape
- 6 magenta (or white) tepals per flower
- few leaves and all withered prior to flowering
- dry hillsides, sun-exposed rocky meadows and slope, volcanic areas
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Anaphalis margaritacea / pearly everlasting
- hairy leaves and stems, often in dense colonies
- inflorescences dominated by white involucral bracts
- actual flowers are small, yellow and in the center
- commonly on dry soils
- great for dried flower arrangements
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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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Aphyllon franciscanum / yellow-clustered broomrape
- tubular yellow, 5 petalled flowers
- short (6")
- no leaves at all, ever
- very hairy stems and flowers
- parasitic, especially on buckwheats
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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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Aquilegia coerulea / Colorado blue columbine
- blue to white to pink or yellow tinged
- long spurs (tails) as long as the petals are large
- blooms late spring and July (stragglers in August)
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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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Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush
- medium-sized grey-green shrub
- highly aromatic
- tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
- limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)
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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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Balsamorhiza macrophylla / cutleaf balsamroot
- large, yellow, sunflower-like blossom
- large, dissected/lobed/compound-looking leaves
- up to 40" tall
- roadsides or hillsides with arrowleaf balsamroot and Wyethia
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