widespread
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Geum macrophyllum / largeleaf avens
- yellow, 5-petaled flowers; not glossy
- many long styles in green center
- fruits look like little marbles covered with red velcro
- fruits and flowers present at the same time
- deeply divided, sessile leaves on flowering stems
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Linaria vulgaris / yellow toadflax
- fine, threadlike leaves, plants up to 3 feet tall
- flowers similar to snapdragon, pale yellow with orange lower lip, long spur
- flowers in tight terminal clusters
- plants typically in patches
- "noxious" weed in Idaho
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Linum lewisii / wild blue flax
- intense blue, 5-petaled flowers
- red-ish or darker blue veins in petals
- buds, flowers and developing fruit present at same time
- narrow, sessile, 1 inch (ish) leaves
- especially on roadsides and in meadows in the Valley
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Lithophragma parviflorum / smallflower woodland star
- small, white (or mauve) flowers with 5 highly disected petals
- up to 14 flowers per stalk, usually much less
- deeply lobed, glandularly pubescent leaves at stem bases
- spring bloomer in a wide variety of habitats
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Lonicera involucrata / twinberry honeysuckle
- flowers - inconspicuous, paired, yellow, bell-shaped with green bracts
- leaves - opposite, oval, often hairy beneath
- fruit - a pair of blue-black/purple berries with red, winglike bracts
- multi-stemmed shrub - to 15 feet tall
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Lupinus spp. / silvery and silky lupins
- palmately compound, usually silvery-green leaves
- 5-9 leaflets per leaf; long petioles
- flowers on long, spikey racemes, blooming from bottom upward
- numerous flowers, but all rather teeny; most purple or blue
- flowers are above the leaves
- seeds in short, hairy pods
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Mahonia repens / creeping Oregon grape
- pinnately compound with toothed, holly-like leaflets
- clusters of yellow flowers in spring; blue berries in late summer
- low, creeping shrub
- evergreen - but winter leaves are reddish
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Malva neglecta / cheeseweed
- leaves look like grocery store geraniums (Pelargonium)
- flowers are small, pink-ish and often buried in the foliage
- fruits are small (ca. 1/2 in) and round
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Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort
- dense, narrow inflorescence on upper half of stem
- yellow, beak-like flowers with upper and lower lips
- flowers from bottom to top
- conspicuous, fern-like leaves
- old flowers become light brown but remain on stalk
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Phleum pratense / timothy
- tight, cylindrical flower head
- probably the most recognizable grass in the Valley
- pink stamens with prodigious pollen production in summer
- bulb at base of stem; brown leaf sheath bases
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Phlox diffusa / spreading phlox
- low, spreading, moss-like (before blooming)
- flowers 5-petaled, a variety of colors, and with a tube below the petals
- many habitat types incl. mountain slopes, rocky terrain, dry forests or with sagebrush
- blooms in early spring to early summer
- confusable with P. hoodii
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Phlox longifolia / longleaf phlox
- white or pink to almost rose flowers
- blooms in spring, sometimes through to August
- common on disturbed and undisturbed sites
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