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Agoseris aurantiaca / orange mountain dandelion
- unusual burnt-orange color
- basically - looks like an orange dandelion
- linear leaves - unlike the "real" dandelion
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Cirsium hookerianum / Hooker’s thistle
- clearly a thistle, but with white flowers
- native but not plentiful
- seen at Mahogany Creek in mid-August
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Corallorhiza maculata / spotted coralroot
- short, brown/red leafless flowering stalk, often in clumps
- intricate all brown/red-ish flowers except for a white lower lip, with reddish spots
- in conifer or aspen forest understory
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Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary
- uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
- six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
- six bright yellow anthers
- few, grass-like leaves
- usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest
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Fritillaria pudica / yellow fritillary
- small, lovely, unprepossessing lily
- a few, long, narrow leaves
- a single (or two) yellow, bell-shaped flower
- flowers turn brick red as they age
- blooms just after snowmelt and disappears quickly
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