forest openings

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  • Galium borealis / northern bedstraw

    • teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
    • two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
    • linear leaves - like rosemary
    • smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws

  • Hackelia micrantha / Jessica sticktight

    • teeny blue flowers with yellow/white centers
    • flowers appear singly or in groups above developing fruit
    • inflorescence mostly on one side of the stem
    • lower leaves long and narrow; upper leaves fewer and sessile
    • fruit a pointy and tenacious nutlet

  • Hackelia patens / spotted stickseed

    • small (but not teeny) white, 5-petaled flowers with delicate blue stripes at bases
    • stamens arising from a "hole" in the middle of the flowers where petals are fused
    • usually around sage, in early spring
    • fruits are obnoxious - but small - burs (nutlets) that stick to everything

  • Heracleum maximum / cow parsnip

    • very tall - stands above most other herbs and forbs
    • huge leaves with clasping sheaths at the stem junction
    • leaves lobed and like a very large maple
    • huge flat umbels with white flowers
    • grooved, woolly, stout stem

  • Hesperostipa comata / needle and thread

    • widely spaced bunchgrass
    • glossy leaves, smooth stem
    • narrow inflorescence with long awns (hairs)
    • sharp, needle-like seed retaining the awn
    • drought tolerant

  • Hieracium albiflorum / white hawkweed

    • white, dandelion-like flower; up to 50 per plant
    • 6-25 florets
    • square-end petals each with 4 small notches
    • hairy stems and basal leaves
    • shady openings in dry forests

  • Hieracium aurantiaca / orange hawkweed

    • orange dandelion-like flower
    • petals square ended with small notches
    • hairy leaves, stems and involucres
    • found in many habitats, sometimes in excess

  • Hieracium scouleri / western hawkweed

    • dandelion-like yellow flower heads
    • square-ended petals; long stamens with split ends
    • central yellow "button"
    • hairy all over, especially on leaves and lower stem
    • blooms all summer

  • Hydrophyllum capitatum / ballhead waterleaf

    • leaves to 10" tall, deeply lobed (7-11 lobes)
    • globe of purple-blue-white flowers below the leaves or at ground level
    • flowers are fuzzy while still in bud
    • rocky, shady, seasonally moist sites

  • Hypericum perforatum / St. John’s wort

    • bright yellow, 5-petaled flowers
    • many stamens sticking out every which way
    • sizable black and/or white glands on leaves and petals
    • waist high and grows in large colonies (invasive)
    • not (yet) seen west of the Tetons

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