late summer
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Silene latifolia / white campion
- white, 5-petaled flowers with distinctive inflated calyx (bladder)
- flowers in clusters atop stems
- whole plant densely hairy
- widespread on alkaline soils (e.g. the Valley)
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Sisymbrium altissimum / tumble mustard
- inflorescence a raceme with yellow, teeny flowers
- long, thin seed pods (siliques)
- blooms throughout the spring and summer
- shoots look like a bunch of sticks glued together
- dries and breaks off, then tumbles
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Solanum physalifolium / ground cherry nightshade
- flowers look like potato or tomato flowers
- small white, 5 recurved petals
- clump of yellow stamens protrude from flower
- triangular leaves with wedge-shaped bases
- usually sprawling on ground
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Solidago canadensis / goldenrod
- large sprays of yellow flowers in late summer and fall
- often tall and in large colonies
- lance-shaped, toothed leaves
- mostly (but not always) in disturbed areas
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Solidago missouriensis / Missouri goldenrod
- perennial herb, up to 40" tall
- inflorescence is a branching panicle with many (≥200) yellow flower heads
- involucres are ¼ long with 3 or 4 layers of narrow, pointed, hairless, yellow-green bracts
- leaves are thin and lanceolate, upright and rigid with prominent midribs
- upper leaves have pronounced but small teeth
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Solidago multiradiata / alpine goldenrod
- the only (?) goldenrod at alpine altitudes
- clusters of 5-100 small, yellow composite flowers with a dozen-ish rays and 3 doz disc florets
- medium green lance/spoon shaped leaves, bigger at base of the plants; toothed/hairy edges
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Sonchus arvensis / field sowthistle
- yellow dandelion-like
- multiple flowers per stalk
- often in patches in wet fields
- leaves spiney but without lobes, clasping the stems
- often several stems from a single point at the soil level
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Symphiocarpos oreophilus / mountain snowberry
- small pink (or white) bell or funnel shaped flowers, singly or in pairs
- shrub - upright or spreading
- most visible in late summer when the white "berries" ripen
- in the open or in canopy gaps; along the sides Forest Service roads
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Taraxia tanacetifolia / tansyleaf evening primrose
- single, sessile, bright yellow, cup shaped flowers; 4 petals
- grows as a rosette, flat to the ground
- leaves are up to 12 inches long; very deeply lobed
- still blooming in mid-October; starts in mid summer
- grows on sandy/gravelly soil, e.g. drying lake beds
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Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage
- alpine or subalpine
- on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
- glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
- teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
- blooms in August at high altitudes
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Tetradymia canescens / spineless horsebrush
- shrub - up to 3 feet tall and across; round
- small, yellow composite flowers in clusters of 4 to 8
- dandelion-like seeds often present with flowers
- primary leaves short and linear; long-lived
- secondary leaves in axils of primaries are short-lived
- primary leaves are not spines
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