spring
Basically, late May and June
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Acer glabrum / Rocky Mountain maple
- understory shrub, small tree, multiple stems
- opposite leaves; red twigs
- maple-like leaves
- teeny flowers; double-helicopter fruits
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Actaea rubra / red baneberry
- large, coarsely toothed, deeply lobed compound leaves
- clusters of teeny white flowers that look feathery or fluffy (due to stamens)
- green berries in late summer, maturing to red or white
- black dot at tip of each berry
- moist understory or shade
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Agoseris glauca / yellow false dandelion
- yellow, dandelion-like flower - same size and color
- long-ish, thin leaves growing at ground level (a rosette); no lobes or pointy bits
- blooms in spring and summer
- shade intolerant but on sites ranging from moderately dry to wet
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Allium acuminatum – tapertip onion
- umbels with 10-40 flowers atop a tall scape
- 6 magenta (or white) tepals per flower
- few leaves and all withered prior to flowering
- dry hillsides, sun-exposed rocky meadows and slope, volcanic areas
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Allium schoenoprasum / chives
- globe-shaped umbels of pink flowers with darker midveins (stripes)
- hollow, tubular leaves and flower stalks
- smells like onions
- grows from bulbs in clumps or sometimes individually
- wild in wetlands, fens, meadows; cultivated in gardens
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Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort
- short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
- short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
- seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
- disturbed sites of any kind
- often in dense populations
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Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry
- erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
- usually several trunks
- compact, fragrant white flower clusters
- star-like flowers
- smallish, light-green, oval leaves
- small, edible blue "berries" by July
- red/orange fall leaf color
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Antennaria spp. / pussytoes
- small clusters of white flowers, often fringed with red
- flowers look like a cat's toes, sort of
- newest leaves silvery/hairy
- exposed, in many different habitats
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Aquilegia coerulea / Colorado blue columbine
- blue to white to pink or yellow tinged
- long spurs (tails) as long as the petals are large
- blooms late spring and July (stragglers in August)
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Argentina anserina / silverweed
- silvery, compound leaves on low, creeping stems
- yellow, 5+ petaled flowers; lots of stamens
- fens, other wetlands, but also roadsides
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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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