widespread
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Abies lasiocarpa / subalpine fir
- narrow, tall, sharply tipped trees
- cones purple and erect; disintegrate in the fall
- needles flattened, soft and blunt tipped, brushed upward
- needles sessile - no petioles or pegs
- leaf (needle) scars round
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Agropyron cristatum / crested wheatgrass
- cool season grass growing in dense tufts
- easily recognized by planar spike
- spikelets overlap and are angled with respect to the stem
- common
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Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort
- short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
- short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
- seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
- disturbed sites of any kind
- often in dense populations
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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
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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
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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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Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush
- medium-sized grey-green shrub
- highly aromatic
- tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
- limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)
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Blitum nuttallianum / Nuttall’s povertyweed
- ugly little creeping plant from a central stem
- arrow-shaped leaves with two prominent lobes, especially on lower leaves
- teeny clusters of teeny greenish flowers; no petals; in most leaf axils
- widespread, but usually exposed and weed-like
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Capsella bursa-pastoris / shepherd’s purse
- small crucifer with terminal clusters of teeny white flowers
- rosette of small, maybe toothed, leaves
- very distinctive, notched, triangular fruits - like shepherd's "purses"
- found pretty much anywhere that has/had bare soil
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Castilleja miniata / scarlet paintbrush
- bright red, or orange or sometimes yellow bracts that are mistaken for flowers
- looks like a red feather duster, but only a few inches long
- generally low, and along streams or roadsides on hills where there is moisture
- leaves ovoid with prominent veins, no petioles
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Cerastium arvense / field chickweed
- Erect or trailing stems, if you can see them amongst the competition
- Clusters of 1 to many white flowers with 5 deeply cleft petals
- Petals much longer than the green sepals
- Opposite, linear, sessile leaves - not very long
- Cylindrical seed capsules with 10 teeth at top
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Chenopodium album / lamb’s quarters
- green, nobbly inflorescence - many nob-like flowers
- leaves grey-green, more or less triangular
- leaves may feel cool to the touch
- widespread weed, especially in disturbed habitats
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