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  • Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    • PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
    • Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
    • Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
    • Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils
  • Lactuca serriola / prickly lettuce

    • numerous dime-sized yellow flowers in an "airy" panicle
    • buds droop or hang in a "shepherd's hook" before opening
    • seed heads are dandelion-like, but more delicate
    • highly divided, prickly leaves
    • mostly in "waste" areas
  • Linum lewisii / wild blue flax

    • intense blue, 5-petaled flowers
    • red-ish or darker blue veins in petals
    • buds, flowers and developing fruit present at same time
    • narrow, sessile, 1 inch (ish) leaves
    • especially on roadsides and in meadows in the Valley
  • Sonchus arvensis / field sowthistle

    • yellow dandelion-like
    • multiple flowers per stalk
    • often in patches in wet fields
    • leaves spiney but without lobes, clasping the stems
    • often several stems from a single point at the soil level
  • Tragopogon spp. / salsify

    • large yellow inflorescence with pointy sepals extending past the "flower"
    • grass-like leaves
    • non-native, weed
    • widespread

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