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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sisyrinchium idahoense / Idaho blue-eyed grass

    • six blue, notched "petals" with yellow center
    • single flower; naked stem
    • narrow, grass-like, basal leaves
    • fens and wet meadows

  • Sorbus scopulina / western mountain ash

    • moderate sized shrub with pinnately compound leaves
    • 9-13 leaflets per leaf (usually)
    • teeny white flowers in large rounded clusters
    • yellow berries in August become bright red in September
    • rocky hillsides, creek sides, open woods

  • Stenotus acaulis / stemless goldenweed

    • very short, mat forming perennial yellow "daisy"
    • thin, lance-shaped leaves, pointing upward
    • yellow flower head with 6-15 ray florets, up to 50 disk florets
    • in dry, rocky, open-scrub habitats

  • 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

  • Thalictrum occidentale / western meadow-rue

    • delicate compound leaves, each segment with 3 lobes
    • leaves "look like" columbine
    • male and female flowers on separate plants
    • all flowers teeny, in clumps, somewhat to really purple
    • in moist habitats, esp. stream banks in forests

  • Thlaspi arvense / field pennycress

    • inflorescence a raceme with white, teeny flowers
    • oval seed pods ca. 1/3" across
    • blooms late spring and summer
    • continues blooming as pods fill from older flowers
    • common weed in disturbed habitats including cultivated land

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