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  • Lithophragma parviflorum / smallflower woodland star

    • small, white (or mauve) flowers with 5 highly disected petals
    • up to 14 flowers per stalk, usually much less
    • deeply lobed, glandularly pubescent leaves at stem bases
    • spring bloomer in a wide variety of habitats

  • Lithospermum ruderale / Columbia puccoon

    • small, pale yellow flowers in early spring
    • flowers in dense clusters, nestled among the leaves
    • 1–3 in. long, linear leaves, notably crowded on upper part of stems
    • in dry areas, especially with sagebrush

  • Lomatium dissectum / fernleaf biscuitroot

    • blooms soon after snowmelt
    • yellow or purple-ish flowers in compound umbels
    • highly divided, fern-like leaves
    • rocks, rocky soils, sagebrush communities

  • Lonicera involucrata / twinberry honeysuckle

    • flowers - inconspicuous, paired, yellow, bell-shaped with green bracts
    • leaves - opposite, oval, often hairy beneath
    • fruit - a pair of blue-black/purple berries with red, winglike bracts
    • multi-stemmed shrub - to 15 feet tall

  • Lonicera utahensis / Utah honeysuckle

    • flowers - white or cream, in pairs, bell-shaped, nodding
    • fruit - bright red berries in pairs, fused at the base
    • no noticeable bracts on either flowers or berries
    • short-ish shrub, multi-stemmed
    • understory, especially in moist forests

  • Lotus corniculatus / birds-foot trefoil

    • roadsides and other disturbed areas
    • numerous bright yellow, pea-like flowers
    • three, oval and pointed leaflets
    • seed pods are arranged like toes on a bird's foot

  • Lupinus spp. / silvery and silky lupins

    • palmately compound, usually silvery-green leaves
    • 5-9 leaflets per leaf; long petioles
    • flowers on long, spikey racemes, blooming from bottom upward
    • numerous flowers, but all rather teeny; most purple or blue
    • flowers are above the leaves
    • seeds in short, hairy pods

  • Mahonia repens / creeping Oregon grape

    • pinnately compound with toothed, holly-like leaflets
    • clusters of yellow flowers in spring; blue berries in late summer
    • low, creeping shrub
    • evergreen - but winter leaves are reddish

  • Maianthemum stellatum / starry false Solomon’s seal

    • blooms in late June (ish) in the Valley, mildly fragrant.
    • teeny star-shaped flowers with 6 white tepals
    • one inflorescence (raceme) per stem
    • small berries progressing from green to purple to red with maturity
    • alternate, long and narrow leaves clasping the stem

  • Medicago lupulina / black medic

    • prostrate, long creeping stems
    • compound leaves with 3 small, rounded leaflets
    • teeny yellow flowers in very small button-like clusters
    • disturbed areas with compacted soil - roadsides & wastelands

  • Mertensia oblongifolia / sagebrush bluebell

    • bright blue-to-purplish flowers, hanging and downward facing
    • narrow tube that flares abruptly to bell
    • blooms in very early spring, soon after snow-melt
    • usually associated with sagebrush

  • Microsteris gracilis / slender phlox

    • everything about it is teeny
    • white or pink, 5-petal flowers ca. 2 mm diameter
    • exposed, in early spring (ephemeral)

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