Plants in the Valley

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Gaillardia aristata / common blanketflower
- bright red petals with yellow tips, or yellow petals the whole way
- reddish brown central disk
- attractive yellow seed balls with tufts of red hair all over
- leathery, slightly hairy leaves
Galium borealis / northern bedstraw
- teeny 4-petaled white flowers in small to large clusters
- two pairs of opposite leaves in a whorl around the stem
- linear leaves - like rosemary
- smooth stems... not hairy or sticky like other bedstraws
Galium triflorum / fragrant bedstraw
- low, herbaceous plant on forest floor
- whorls of thin, pointy leaves - 6 per whorl
- teeny, 4-petaled white flowers in groups of three
Gentian affinis / pleated gentian
- brilliantly blue, funnel-shaped flowers
- petals (lobes) pointed, joined by ragged plaits
- flowers in clumps or singly at tops of stems
- leaves lanceolate and opposite on square stems.
- found in a variety of wet sites
Gentiana calycosa / explorer’s gentian
- opposite, sessile leaves on unbranched stems; clonal
- deep blue funnel-shaped flowers with white throats and yellow spots
- 5 pointed petals with fringed pleats between them
- in wetter areas at higher elevations
Geranium richardsonii / Richardson’s geranium
- white, or sometimes pink-ish, flowers
- non-sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
Geranium viscossisimum / sticky geranium
- mauve to pink to red to white flowers
- sticky stems
- bee and butterfly pollination
- exploding seed capsules
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
Geum triflorum / prairie smoke
- among the earliest bloomers in the spring
- clusters of nodding reddish, pink, maroon or purple flowers
- flowers in groups of 3
- distinctive fruit - like silvery-pink or mauve "troll dolls"
- in large populations, fruiting plants look (sort of) like smoke
Goodyera oblongifolia / western rattlesnake plantain
- basal rosette of blue-green leaves with a white midvein
- single, leafless inflorescence stem
- greenish-white, stalkless flowers, often in a spiral
- the flowers have a hood, a short, pouch-like lip, and 2 flaring sepals
- usually found on the floor of coniferous forests
Grindelia squarrosa / Curly cup gumweed
- small-ish yellow flowers
- button-like buds
- attractively compact, globe-shaped plant
Hackelia floribunda / many-flowered stickseed