Plants in the Valley
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Dodecatheon pulchellum / shooting star
- five pink to lavender lobes projecting backwards
- white or yellow petal bases above a squiggly purple ring
- anthers joined into a projecting point; stigma projecting past the point
- snowmelt to early spring
- wet meadows to sagebrush communities
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Doellingeria engelmannii / Engelmann’s aster
- shade tolerant - in mountain woods and meadows
- late summer/autumn blooming
- each blossom/flower has only a few curly rays around a yellow disk
- ray florets mostly white, but possibly pink or blue
- ovate leaves, mostly hairless and sessile; prominent veins.
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Draba nemorosa / yellow whitlow-grass
- teeny, often silvery plant with teeny yellow 4-petal flowers
- rosette leaves have trichomes even when not really silvery
- annual ephemeral seen soon after snowmelt
- usually exposed near or on rocks, dry slopes
- flat, elliptical seed capsules
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Drymocallis arguta / tall cinquefoil
- yellow flowers, 5 petals with pointy green sepals between
- many stamens; central disk of yellow pistils
- flowers in clusters with short stems (cyme)
- most leaves basal - pinnately compound, coarsely toothed, obovate
- many soil types, but not overly moist
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Drymocallis glandulosa / sticky cinquefoil
- deeply lobed (almost compound) leaves (3-5 lobes)
- clusters of cream or white 5-petaled flowers
- pointy green sepals visible between non-overlapping petals
- ≥25 stamens
- sticky stems, involucres and buds (glandular hairs)
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Elodea canadensis / Elodea
- submerged with a stem and whorls of small, oblong leaves
- usually has 3 leaves per node
- leaf whorls denser near the growing tips
- stems may be quite long or floating as fragmented bits
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Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass
- cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
- flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
- flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
- beautifully straw colored in fall
- common but rarely abundant; many habitats
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Epilobium ciliatum / common willow-weed
- small flowers... pink to purple to white
- four, very deeply notched petals
- narrow, very long fruit; downy seeds
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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
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Equisetum hyemale / rough horsetail
- thin green stems with black bands; no branches
- possible cone-like structure at the apex
- usually in large colonies
- prefers continuously moist soils
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Eremogene kingii / King’s sandwort
- low-growing herb with long, thin basal leaf clusters
- white, 5-petaled flowers, ca. 1/2 in across, in terminal clusters
- 10 stamens, sometimes dark, sometimes white
- at higher elevations on shallow soil
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Eremogone congesta / sandwort
- very small (teeny) white flowers in a ball-like arrangement
- tufts of pointy-tipped needle-like leaves 3" or less long
- cushion plant
- dry, rocky or sandy soils, rock crevices
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