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  • Mahonia repens / creeping Oregon grape

    • pinnately compound with toothed, holly-like leaflets
    • clusters of yellow flowers in spring; blue berries in late summer
    • low, creeping shrub
    • evergreen - but winter leaves are reddish

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mentha canadensis / American cornmint

    • crushed leaves smell like peppermint
    • clusters of teeny white-blue-pink flowers in the axils of stem leaves
    • square stems, lance-shaped leaves
    • shaded, moist areas
    • may form large clones

  • Mertensia ciliata / mountain bluebells

    • taller than others bluebells - up to four feet
    • often forms dense stands by streams and seeps
    • flowers dark blue, bell-shaped, held on one side of stem
    • leaves blue-green, pointed, with prominent veins, marginal pointy hairs

  • Mertensia oblongifolia / sagebrush bluebell

    • bright blue-to-purplish flowers, hanging and downward facing
    • narrow tube that flares abruptly to bell
    • blooms in very early spring, soon after snow-melt
    • usually associated with sagebrush

  • Micranthes odontoloma / brook saxifrage

    • streamsides (or in the streams) especially at higher elevations
    • white petals with beautiful red center
    • yellow/green spots on the petals
    • multiple drooping flowers on foot-long, leafless stems

  • Microsteris gracilis / slender phlox

    • everything about it is teeny
    • white or pink, 5-petal flowers ca. 2 mm diameter
    • exposed, in early spring (ephemeral)

  • Myosotis asiatica / forget-me-not

    • azure blue to violet to white flowers - very small
    • yellow ring around the center of each flower, like a doughnut
    • usually many flowers in an inflorescence
    • flowers initially in compact clusters, more spread out later in season
    • leaves and stems a bit hairy

  • Neottia banksiana / northwestern twayblade

    • orchid - with two stem-clasping leaves halfway up the stem
    • moist, dim understory habitat, in clonal patches
    • very small green orchid flower - 5 sickle-shaped petals and sepals, 1 broader green labellum (lip)
    • small, insignificant and easily overlooked

  • 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

  • Oenothera villosa / hairy evening primrose

    • yellow flowers on tall stalks, several flowers in a cluster
    • 4 petals; 8 stamens; large, 4 part stigma
    • hairy - often reddish -  stems; hairy leaves
    • lance-shaped leaves, larger on stem than basal
    • disturbed areas and stream banks

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