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Lithophragma parviflorum / smallflower woodland star
- small, white (or mauve) flowers with 5 highly disected petals
- up to 14 flowers per stalk, usually much less
- deeply lobed, glandularly pubescent leaves at stem bases
- spring bloomer in a wide variety of habitats
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Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle
- flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
- fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
- no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
- short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
- understory, especially in moist forests
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Madia glomerata / mountain tarweed
- stems, leaves, flowers - strongly aromatic, like tar
- sticky glandular hairs cover foliage and floral bracts
- flowers in clusters with 1 to 3 yellow ray florets
- disk florets retain visible petals; black stamens
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Maianthemum racemosum / Solomon’s plume
- "feathery" inflorescence - panicle
- 6 white tepals on teeny flowers
- long-blooming in late spring, sometimes into summer
- green berries --> red as they ripen
- alternate, clasping leaves on erect stems
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Maianthemum stellatum / starry false Solomon’s seal
- blooms in late June (ish) in the Valley, mildly fragrant.
- teeny star-shaped flowers with 6 white tepals
- one inflorescence (raceme) per stem
- small berries progressing from green to purple to red with maturity
- alternate, long and narrow leaves clasping the stem
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Noccea fendleri ssp. idahoensis / wild candytuft
- white crucifer, four petals in two parallel rows
- flowers in terminal clusters
- basal rosette leaves with a few on the stalks
- wetter areas
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Osmorhiza spp / sweet cicely
- broad compound, bluntly toothed, fern-like leaves 3 times compoundly divided
- compound umbels of tiny white flowers; May-June
- short, understory herb
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Packera streptanthifolia / Rocky Mountain groundsel
- yellow-flowered composite; "flowers" on branched inflorescence
- 8-13 half-inch ray florets, usually spaced apart
- thick, spatula-shaped basal leaves without teeth or clefts
- thin, often deeply lobed stem leaves
- dry woodlands and rocky places
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Paxistima myrsinites / Oregon boxwood
- low shrub
- small, opposite leaves; lightly toothed, leathery, oval
- very early spring flowering
- teeny flowers with 4 red petals, 4 yellow stamens; in clusters
- usually on open, dry, sunny sites or open forests
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Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort
- dense, narrow inflorescence on upper half of stem
- yellow, beak-like flowers with upper and lower lips
- flowers from bottom to top
- conspicuous, fern-like leaves
- old flowers become light brown but remain on stalk
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Pedicularis racemosa / leafy lousewort
- clumps of plants with maroon stems in forest understory
- white to pink flowers in upper leaf axils
- flowers have beak-like upper lip and wide three-lobed lower lip
- leaves narrow and tapering, slightly serrate, maroon when young
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Plantanthera unalascensis / slender-spire orchid
- teeny, green flowers, well-separated, not spiraled
- a "tall, thin, green nothing"
- basal leaves prostrate, but not appressed to the ground
- leaves often wither before pollination occurs
- found in many different habitats
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