seed bank
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Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
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Cardamine hirsute / hairy bittercress
- small brassica/crucifer with compound leaves
- teeny white, 4 petal flowers with 4 stamens in racemic clumps
- a widespread weed, including gardens and lawns
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Ceanothus velutinus / snowbrush
- waist-high, exposed evergreen shrub
- aromatic in hot weather or when leaves are crushed
- shiny (sticky) green leaves, ca. 3"; 3 prominent veins
- 4" clusters of teeny white/cream flowers
- in disturbed areas, particularly burned areas
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Cercocarpus ledifolius / curl-leaf mountain mahogany
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Chamerion angustifolium / fireweed
- bright pink flowers on tall inflorescence (raceme)
- flowers mature from bottom to top
- four petals
- spiral leaf arrangement - lance-shaped leaves have smooth edges
- pod-like seed capsule releases seeds to the wind
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Descurainia pinnata / western tansy mustard
- another stupid yellow crucifer
- erect stem, up to 30 inches
- deeply lobed leaves, without petioles up-stem
- often near or under sagebrush, otherwise dry, disturbed and crappy soils
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Fragaria vesca / woodland strawberry
- trifoliate, light green markedly toothed leaves
- clusters of hairy, 5-petaled white flowers on a soft-hairy stem
- plants spread by stolons
- fruit (if any) red with bumps where the seeds are
- spring/early summer bloom
- widespread
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Hyocyamus niger / black henbane
- highly toxic! including contact dermatitis
- 5-lobed, funnel-shaped flowers, brownish yellow with purple veins and center; 1.5" across
- flowers in summer, e.g. warm June, July
- elliptical leaves, pointy tips, toothed or lobed margins, prominent veins
- highly disturbed areas: wastelands, field edges etc.
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Iliamna rivularis / streambank globemallow
- showy, pink flowers, sometimes rose or nearly white
- tall, up to 6 feet
- large, broadly "heart-shaped" leaves with big, triangular lobes
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Melilotus spp / sweetclover
- yellow or white, floppy, tubular flowers in long-ish clusters (racemes)
- 3 small, pointy leaflets with petioles
- rangy, unkempt branching
- roadsides, waste places and sometimes in fields, grasslands
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Oxybasis glauca / oak-leaved goosefoot
- typically prostrate and small, apart from other plants
- mudflats and other drying wet areas
- small, blue-green, small-lobed leaves; often w/ reddish stems
- teeny clusters of teeny yellow flowers
- leaves feel cool and damp due to glandular hairs on lower surface
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Phalaris arundinacea / reed canarygrass
- large, coarse, erect grass
- long, flat blades with pointy tips... from base
- distinct ligule—membranous and long
- large but compact inflorescences (panicles)
- often in dense monocultures, e.g. on river banks
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