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Prunella vulgaris / self-heal
- compact spike of tiny purple, mint-like flowers
- upper/lower lips purple and white respectively
- square stems, opposite leaves
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Prunus virginiana / western chokecherry
- oval leaves with serrated margins and abrupt taper at tip
- reddish twigs with prominent lenticels
- drooping clumps of white flowers w/ yellow centers in spring
- red to black cherries in fall, up to ½ inch diameter
- leaves turn orange or yellow in fall
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Purshia tridentata / antelope bitterbrush
- small yellow, 5-petal flowers in early spring
- small shrub, often in large "clumps"
- leaves look like sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata)
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Pyrola asarifolia / pink pyrola
- 4 to 25 nodding red (or pink) and white flowers in a loose raceme
- round petals, edges often curved down
- green style extends out of flower like elephant's trunk
- flower stems may be over a foot tall
- leaves are "liver" shaped or "ginger" shaped and shiny - round-ish but wider than long
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Ranunculus aquatilis / common water crowfoot
- found in slowly flowing water ways, ditches, ponds
- white, waxy flowers with yellow centers; 4 or 5 petals
- flowers raised a couple inches above the water surface
- usually grows in dense mats that look a lot like slime
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Ribes aureum / golden current
- shrub up to 10 feet tall
- spring bloomer, golden yellow flower in clusters
- small, maple-like leaves
- 1/2 inch berries in late summer, golden to black
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Ribes hudsonianum / northern black currant
- moist wooded areas, streambanks
- erect, spike-like inflorescences with up to 50 white flowers
- bitter berries, ripening to black
- leaves and stems covered with resinous glands
- leaves 3-5 lobed, glandular below
- smells bad
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Ribes viscosissimum / sticky currant
- shrub to 7 feet tall
- stem and leaves covered with sticky, glandular hairs
- white, bell-like flowers in drooping or erect clusters (up to 15)
- rough leaves, 3-5 equal lobes, toothed margins
- fragrant flowers and leaves
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Rubus parviflorus / thimbleberry
- raspberry-like shrub usually in a clump
- white flowers with many stamens, up to 2.5 inches diameter
- large, fuzzy maple-like leaves
- blooms in spring; red, raspberry-like fruit in the fall
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Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel
- early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
- bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
- only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
- cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
- seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen
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Shepherdia canadensis / Canadian buffaloberry
- deciduous shrub, opposite branches and leaves; understory
- trichomes (hairs) on lower, often upper surfaces.
- lower surface has rust-colored scales
- teeny yellowish flowers before leaves appear; male and female on separate plants
- red or orange, oval fruits with one stony seed; soapy when crushed
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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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