widespread

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  • Collomia linearis / tiny trumpet

    • teeny, tubular, lilac to white flowers
    • flowers in clusters at top of stem in a basket of leaves
    • velvety stem; long, narrow, lance-shaped leaves

  • Cornus sericea / red osier dogwood

    • shrub with opposite branching and red bark, brightest in fall/winter
    • common along streams especially
    • small white flowers, 4 petals, in clusters
    • white or blue-ish white berries in fall
    • opposite leaves with parallel veins

  • Delphinium bicolor / low larkspur

    • short plant with a spike of purple flowers
    • individual flowers have a pronounced spur out the back
    • leaves are few, round, deeply lobed, about the size of a quarter
    • widespread throughout the valley and on the hills
    • appears and blooms soon after snowmelt

  • Equisetum arvense / field horsetail

    • segmented brown stems with spore-bearing "cone" at the tip
    • or - segmented green stem with thin green branches radiating from nodes
    • distinctly visible nodes along the stems
    • no leaves or flowers
    • found in many different habitats

  • Eriogonom spp. / wild buckwheat

    • short, with small leaves close to the ground
    • leaves persistent in winter, green and red
    • blossoms - cute little buttons that look like dried flowers; long-lasting
    • inflorescence - umbel or compound umbel
    • may be white, cream, yellow, pink, red; changeable with age

  • Erysimum capitatum / western wallflower

    • yellow (usually) 4-petaled flowers at top of stem
    • inflorescence may be as big as a baseball, and round
    • mostly basal rosette of leaves
    • cauline leaves narrow with small teeth
    • siliques horizontal to nearly vertical; relatively long
    • variety of habitats, but not wetlands

  • Erysimum cheiranthoides / wormseed wallflower

    • yellow, 4-petaled flower, less than 1/3 inch across
    • lance shaped or elliptical, sessile leaves varying little in size or shape
    • leaf margins entire or coarsely toothed
    • ribbed stems
    • ascending or erect siliques with short pedicels
    • disturbed and waste areas

  • Festuca idahoensis / Idaho fescue

    • a bunchgrass growing in very dense clumps
    • over-winters green; an early green grass in spring
    • green to blue-green to silvery green leaves
    • individual flowers in clusters of hairy spikelets on branched panicles; very dark purple or green
    • seeds have large spines (awns) at the tips

  • 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

  • Frasera speciosa / monument plant

    • striking, 4 petal flowers - green and white with purple flecks
    • flowers held close in to stem
    • tall flowering stalk (to chest high) from a base of large, elongated rosette leaves

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