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  • Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry

    • erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
    • usually several trunks
    • compact, fragrant white flower clusters
    • star-like flowers
    • smallish, light-green, oval leaves
    • small, edible blue "berries" by July
    • red/orange fall leaf color

  • Anemone multifida / cutleaf windflower

    • usually 5 bi-colored "petals" - esp. pink or white; many stamens
    • leaves deeply cut and re-cut in 3s with rounded or pointed tips
    • stems and lower leaf surfaces usually hairy
    • gone to seed, fruits have a troll-doll look
    • on calcareous ledges, in shallow crevices or rocky outcrops; dry mountain tops or near water

  • Angelica arguta / Lyall’s angelica

    • white to yellow to pink-ish
    • compound umbel with teeny individual flowers
    • many-toothed compound leaves with sheath surrounding petiole
    • leaflets egg-shaped to narrowly oval
    • pungent parsley/celery/anise scent when leaves crushed

  • Antennaria spp. / pussytoes

    • small clusters of white flowers, often fringed with red
    • flowers look like a cat's toes, sort of
    • newest leaves silvery/hairy
    • exposed, in many different habitats

  • Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas

    • cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
    • branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
    • 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
    • grass/lily-like leaves
    • blooms in summer (July/August)

  • Apocynum androsaemifolium / spreading dogbane

    • short and spreading perennial
    • oval leaves with pointed tips, prominent veins
    • clusters of teeny, pink, bell-shaped flowers with recurved petals
    • conspicuous darker pink stripes on inner surface of corolla
    • exudes milky sap when stems or leaves are broken

  • Apocynum cannabinum / common dogbane

    • herbaceous perennial with red stems and long/narrow leaves
    • leaves have prominent veins
    • leaves and stems exude white latex if broken
    • white, bell-shaped flowers held erect in stalked clusters
    • seedpods long, thin and brownish; in pairs
    • often near streams or in moist places

  • Aquilegia coerulea / Colorado blue columbine

    • blue to white to pink or yellow tinged
    • long spurs (tails) as long as the petals are large
    • blooms late spring and July (stragglers in August)

  • Argentina anserina / silverweed

    • silvery, compound leaves on low, creeping stems
    • yellow, 5+ petaled flowers; lots of stamens
    • fens, other wetlands, but also roadsides

  • Arnica cordifolia / heartleaf arnica

    • yellow, daisy-like flowers; 1-2 per shoot
    • opposite, heart shaped leaves; long petioles; 2-4 pair per stem
    • large clonal colonies with many flowering and non-flowering shoots
    • the dominant ground cover  in moderate shade in many forests

  • Artemisia cana / silver sagebrush

    • Low perennial, silvery shrub
    • Highly aromatic, like sagebrush
    • Entire leaves - no lobes
    • Nondescript, inconspicuous flowers in small clusters with leaf-like bracts
    • Grows in more moist habitat than other Artemisia spp.

  • Artemisia ludoviciana / white sage

    • low, spreading perennial - up to 3 feet tall
    • silvery leaves and stems (hairy)
    • leaves lance shaped, but sometimes lobed
    • shoots die back in winter
    • aromatic

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