late summer
Blooming toward the end of July and into August
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Achillea millefolium / yarrow
- common - white umbrella-type flower
- feathery leaves
- clonal; often found in patches
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Agastache urticifolia / western horsemint
- short or tall flower heads ranging from pale to deep purple
- square stems, opposite leaves
- minty aroma
- common along trails, especially in sun
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Agropyron cristatum / crested wheatgrass
- cool season grass growing in dense tufts
- easily recognized by planar spike
- spikelets overlap and are angled with respect to the stem
- common
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Allium geyeri / Geyer’s onion
- smells like onions
- magenta (occasionally white) flowers on ca. 15 inch stem
- each flower urn-shaped with flared, pointy tips; yellow anthers
- leaves persistent during flowering
- rocky slopes in brush and pines, sometimes in dense stands
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Amaranthus retroflexus / pigweed
- green bottle-brush inflorescence
- accomplished weed on disturbed sites (including road & driveway cracks)
- often in gardens, farm fields (edges), roadsides
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Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms in summer (July/August)
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Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
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Arnica cordifolia / heartleaf arnica
- yellow, daisy-like flowers; 1-2 per shoot
- opposite, heart shaped leaves; long petioles; 2-4 pair per stem
- large clonal colonies with many flowering and non-flowering shoots
- the dominant ground cover in moderate shade in many forests
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Artemisia absinthium / wormwood
- deeply lobed leaves; grey-green (hairy); aromatic (like sage)
- stems to 4' tall; up to 20 per plant
- small clusters of teeny yellow flowers in drooping heads
- disturbed areas and may be weedy
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Artemisia cana / silver sagebrush
- Low perennial, silvery shrub
- Highly aromatic, like sagebrush
- Entire leaves - no lobes
- Nondescript, inconspicuous flowers in small clusters with leaf-like bracts
- Grows in more moist habitat than other Artemisia spp.
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Artemisia ludoviciana / white sage
- low, spreading perennial - up to 3 feet tall
- silvery leaves and stems (hairy)
- leaves lance shaped, but sometimes lobed
- shoots die back in winter
- aromatic
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Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush
- medium-sized grey-green shrub
- highly aromatic
- tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
- limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)
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