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Senecio triangularis / arrowleaf ragwort
- leafy stems with arrow-shaped, coarse-toothed leaves
- often in large patches on moist soil
- clusters of yellow flower heads, each with 8-ish untidy ray florets
- numerous green involucral bracts, sometimes with black tips
- largest leaves occur mid-stem
Tanacetum vulgare / tansy
- yellow, somewhat flattened, button-like flowers
- pretty clearly in the aster family
- camphor-ish smell
- finely divided, fern-like compound leaves
Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover
- a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
- leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
- leaves on long petioles
- flower heads on long peduncles,
Typha latifolia / cattail
- tall, grass-like with thick, long, flat leaves
- in wet areas, especially streams and stream banks
- inflorescence club-like spike; yellow (male) above, green (female) below
- seed head dark brown club, with bare spike above
- fruits (seeds) white & fluffy, released in late summer, autumn, winter
Veronica americana / American brooklime
- teeny, 4-petaled blue or violet-ish flowers, white centers
- in small clumps on stream banks and in other very wet areas
- may be found as a single plant or as a large and dense population - clonal
Veronica anagallis-aquatica / blue water speedwell
- small blue to mauve or lavender flowers; 4 petals
- many flowers per stalk, but only a few blooming at once
- opposite leaves tightly clasping the stems
- in standing water or slowly moving streams
Viola adunca / hooked violet
- early spring, low to ground
- small violet (blue) flowers with small white beards, small reddish spur
- heart-shaped leaves
- generally in somewhat moist areas
Zizia aptera / golden Alexanders
- yellow, compound umbel infloresecence
- basal leaves are heart-shaped
- blooms in early to late spring