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Sambucus nigra / common elderberry
- shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
- leaves opposite
- pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
- flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
- "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature
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Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel
- early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
- bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
- only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
- cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
- seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen
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Symphiocarpos oreophilus / mountain snowberry
- small pink (or white) bell or funnel shaped flowers, singly or in pairs
- shrub - upright or spreading
- most visible in late summer when the white "berries" ripen
- in the open or in canopy gaps; along the sides Forest Service roads
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Tetradymia canescens / spineless horsebrush
- shrub - up to 3 feet tall and across; round
- small, yellow composite flowers in clusters of 4 to 8
- dandelion-like seeds often present with flowers
- primary leaves short and linear; long-lived
- secondary leaves in axils of primaries are short-lived
- primary leaves are not spines
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Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
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Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass
- in bogs, fens, and roadsides through them
- "grass-like" leaves - semicircular cross section with a groove down the middle
- tall flowering spikes with many crowded, green/yellow-ish, teeny flowers
- clonal, so often in widely spaced clumps
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Valeriana edulis / hairy valerian
- long-lived, herbaceous, dioecious perennial - limited to marshes and fens
- grass-like basal leaves; pin-like lobed, stem leaves
- teeny male flowers, white with five fused petals
- sub-millimeter female flowers
- male and female flowers usually on different plants
- overall plant stands out above wetland grasses, rushes etc.
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