July

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  • Chimaphila umbellata / pipsissewa

    • small herb/forb
    • shiny, toothed lance point leaves
    • half-inch, pink and white, upside down flowers
    • flowers in umbel like cluster
    • flowers with minimally visible style

  • Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock

    • HIGHLY TOXIC
    • primarily on continuously wet soils, e.g. ditches, stream banks, pond margins, marshes.
    • white compound umbel inflorescence typical of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae
    • multiply compound leaves with prominent veins ending in notches between lobes

  • Cirsium arvense / Canada thistle

    • purple or lavender clearly-thistle flower heads
    • multiple small flower heads per stem
    • deeply lobed, spiny leaves, but stems not spiny
    • clonal and perennial
    • in clumps or along roads, sometimes quite large/long

  • Cirsium vulgare / bull thistle

    • very nasty spines all over, including stems
    • purple flower head over pear/egg-shaped narrow, spiny bracts
    • fruits are thistle-downy
    • disturbed areas, but also forest gaps, stream sides and seeps

  • Clematis occidentalis / purple clematis

    • grows as a vine with hairy stems - on ground, over logs or up trees
    • leaves are trifoliate
    • flowers have 4 "petals" and hang down (nodding)
    • thick central core of stamens and pistils

  • 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

  • Convulvulus arvensis / field bindweed

    • prostrate and twining vine with white "morning-glory" flowers
    • may be so dense as to choke out other plants
    • roadsides, agricultural fields, waste areas
    • "noxious" in Idaho

  • Corallorhiza maculata / spotted coralroot

    • short, brown/red leafless flowering stalk, often in clumps
    • intricate all brown/red-ish flowers except for a white lower lip, with reddish spots
    • in conifer or aspen forest understory

  • Corallorhiza striata / striped coralroot

    • short and purple - no green bits
    • forest understory
    • up to 35 flowers per stalk; often many stalks together
    • flowers have 5 pointy, purple striped "petals" and one darker lower lip petal

  • Corydalis aurea / scrambled eggs

    • prostrate herb, up to 15" tall
    • moist but well-drained soils, including on roadsides
    • yellow tubular flowers, with spurs
    • highly dissected leaves, blue-grey except when young
    • fruits are pod-like, resembling peas or beans

  • Crepis acuminata / tapertip hawksbeard

    • leaves (diagnostic) - long; many deep triangular, pointed lobes; upright, grey-green; milky sap
    • flowers - 5-10 rays, no disc florets; yellow; up to 70 per plant
    • dry, open places in foothills; commonly with sagebrush

  • Cynoglossum officinale / houndstongue

    • reddish-purple flowers in upper leaf axils
    • forms basal rosette with hairy leaves in first year
    • stem leaves lance shaped, hairy, rough
    • fruit - small nutlets with barbs or hooks

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