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  • Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed

    • small-ish yellow flowers
    • button-like buds
    • attractively compact, globe-shaped plant

  • Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed

  • 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

  • Hedysarum occidentale / western sweetvetch

    • tall legume with hot pink flowers
    • inflorescence several inches long; up to 80 flowers
    • pinnately compound leaves with 9-21, inch-long leaflets
    • higher elevations on drier, more rocky soils

  • Helenium autumnale / common sneezeweed

    • 2" flower head with nearly spherical central disk; numerous yellow rays
    • found in moist areas in full or partial sun
    • sessile or clasping lance shaped leaves on an angled and winged stem

  • Helianthella uniflora / little sunflower

    • short (for a sunflower)
    • a single yellow, sun flower at the top of a hairy stem
    • flowers are only 2-3 inches across
    • leaves generally opposite with 3 prominent veins
    • exposed on hillsides; shallow, but well-drained soil

  • Helianthus annuus / sunflower

    • tall with big, drooping leaves (up to 15x15 inches)
    • large sunflower like flowers - yellow petals, darker disk
    • disturbed edges and waste areas, roadsides, near crops

  • Heliomeris multiflora / showy goldeneye

    • a "Doggone" Yellow Composite (DYC) with 5-14 ray florets; golden dome of disc florets
    • multi-stemmed perennial forms clumps
    • often seen in profusion (but not always)
    • long, thin, lanceolate to linear leaves; maybe with a few small teeth along the edges
    • leaves have a strong midrib vein and distinct side veins

  • 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

  • Heterotheca villosa / hairy goldenaster

    • yellow composite with 10-20 ray florets, orange-brown disk
    • hairy leaves and stems
    • blooms throughout season, often densely
    • disturbed and challenging habitats

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