Plants in the Valley

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  • Lactuca pulchella / blue lettuce

    • looks like prickly lettuce, but blue and without prickly stems or leaves
    • clonal from spreading roots

  • Lactuca serriola / prickly lettuce

    • numerous dime-sized yellow flowers in an "airy" panicle
    • buds droop or hang in a "shepherd's hook" before opening
    • seed heads are dandelion-like, but more delicate
    • highly divided, prickly leaves
    • mostly in "waste" areas

  • Leucanthemum vulgare / oxeye daisy

    • bright, white "petals", 2-3" across; yellow centers
    • s/he loves me, s/he loves me not
    • glossy green, spoon-shaped leaves in a 2 foot dome
    • may form large colonies
    • potentially wide spread

  • Ligusticum filicinum / fern-leaf licorice root

    • found at higher altitudes in moister, forest areas
    • compound umbel with white flowers in comparatively widely spaced umbellets
    • large, very finely divided leaves; leaflets long and thin - "fern-like"

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lithospermum ruderale / Columbia puccoon

    • small, pale yellow flowers in early spring
    • flowers in dense clusters, nestled among the leaves
    • 1–3 in. long, linear leaves, notably crowded on upper part of stems
    • in dry areas, especially with sagebrush

  • Lomatium dissectum / fernleaf biscuitroot

    • blooms soon after snowmelt
    • yellow or purple-ish flowers in compound umbels
    • highly divided, fern-like leaves
    • rocks, rocky soils, sagebrush communities

  • Lomatium triternatum / nineleaf biscuitroot

    • flowers soon after snowmelt
    • yellow compound umbel on leafless stem
    • leaves are three-fold compound; leaflets grass-like
    • may be tall with wide umbels on good soil
    • may be very short with small umbels on rocky, sandy, low nutrient soil

  • 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

  • Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle

    • flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
    • fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
    • no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
    • short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
    • understory, especially in moist forests

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