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  • Valeriana edulis / hairy valerian

    • long-lived, herbaceous, dioecious perennial - limited to marshes and fens
    • grass-like basal leaves; pin-like lobed, stem leaves
    • teeny male flowers, white with five fused petals
    • sub-millimeter female flowers
    • male and female flowers usually on different plants
    • overall plant stands out above wetland grasses, rushes etc.

  • Veratrum californicum / California false hellebore

    • huge inflorescence covered with one-inch-plus flowers
    • six white tepals with green centers
    • moist areas, possibly very dense stands
    • foot-long, heavily veined, pleated bright green leaves

  • Verbascum thapsus / mullein

    • rosette of large, soft, hairy leaves
    • small yellow flowers densely packed on a very tall spike
    • persistent ugly brown spike after flowering is done
    • often on otherwise bare ground

  • Veronica wyomingensis / Wyoming kittentails

    • alpine or subalpine (mostly); rocky outcrops
    • short
    • elliptical leaves with sharp toothed edges
    • red/purple many-flowered inflorescence

  • 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

  • Wyethia amplexicaulis / yellow mules ear

    • blooms in late June, July
    • large yellow sunflower-like central flower, smaller additional flowers
    • long, shiny, not-hairy leaves - like green mule's ears
    • strongly aromatic
    • may cover acres, almost as a monoculture
    • crunchy in the fall

  • Wyethia helianthoides / white mule’s ears

    • large, white-rayed flowers - like daisies
    • large leaves, reminiscent of mule's ears
    • uncommon but in huge profusion when it is found
    • in wetlands or wetter meadows and especially in the spring.

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