spring

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  • Corallorhiza wisteriana / spring coralroot

    • small, easily missed in the forest duff
    • no leaves, no green parts
    • flowers have white lips, possible spots, no eared tabs
    • scape (flowering stalk) purple, or yellow, or brown
    • may stay dormant for years at a time

  • Cornus sericea / red osier dogwood

    • shrub with opposite branching and red bark, brightest in fall/winter
    • common along streams especially
    • small white flowers, 4 petals, in clusters
    • white or blue-ish white berries in fall
    • opposite leaves with parallel veins

  • Corydalis aurea / scrambled eggs

    • prostrate herb, up to 15" tall
    • moist but well-drained soils, including on roadsides
    • yellow tubular flowers, with spurs
    • highly dissected leaves, blue-grey except when young
    • fruits are pod-like, resembling peas or beans

  • Crataegus douglasii / black hawthorn

    • slightly thorny shrub or small tree, to 30 feet
    • often forms thickets
    • broad leaves with toothed edges, clumped at ends of branches
    • clumps of white, globe-shaped flowers in spring; prominent black anthers
    • clumps of black "berries" in autumn

  • Crepis acuminata / tapertip hawksbeard

    • leaves (diagnostic) - long; many deep triangular, pointed lobes; upright, grey-green; milky sap
    • flowers - 5-10 rays, no disc florets; yellow; up to 70 per plant
    • dry, open places in foothills; commonly with sagebrush

  • Dactylis glomerata / orchardgrass

    • perennial bunchgrass
    • branched inflorescence with lowest branch well below the others
    • spikelets wedge-shaped, flattened in tight clusters
    • florets green to red/purple tinged; grey-brown when seeds mature
    • introduced and widespread, but not in wet areas

  • Danthonia californica / California oatgrass

    • medium-sized, cool season bunchgrass
    • florets widely spaced with long stalks on an open panicle
    • may have flowering stems that appear wiry and crinkled
    • when flowering, stamens are purple

  • Delphinium nuttallianum / upland larkspur

    • Bright blue flowers, sometimes whitish or other color petals in center
    • One or several flowers per stalk
    • Long spur "behind" the flower
    • Leaves mostly low on the stem - divided into several or many lobes
    • Open meadows, near streams, with sagebrush, any elevation
    • Beginning soon after snowmelt and sometime persisting into September

  • Dianthus armeria / Deptford pink

    • PINK! 5 petaled, very small flowers
    • Toothed edges; white spots on petals, numerous stamens
    • Linear, opposite leaves; bases make sheath around stem
    • Disturbed areas; happy enough in the worst of soils

  • Dodecatheon pulchellum / shooting star

    • five pink to lavender lobes projecting backwards
    • white or yellow petal bases above a squiggly purple ring
    • anthers joined into a projecting point; stigma projecting past the point
    • snowmelt to early spring
    • wet meadows to sagebrush communities

  • Elymus trachycaulus / slender wheatgrass

    • cool season bunchgrass; no rhizomes
    • flower spikes very narrow and linear; overlapping spikelets tightly pressed to stem
    • flat, medium-width leaves; somewhat bluish
    • beautifully straw colored in fall
    • common but rarely abundant; many habitats

  • Equisetum arvense / field horsetail

    • segmented brown stems with spore-bearing "cone" at the tip
    • or - segmented green stem with thin green branches radiating from nodes
    • distinctly visible nodes along the stems
    • no leaves or flowers
    • found in many different habitats

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