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Myosotis asiatica / forget-me-not
- azure blue to violet to white flowers - very small
- yellow ring around the center of each flower, like a doughnut
- usually many flowers in an inflorescence
- flowers initially in compact clusters, more spread out later in season
- leaves and stems a bit hairy
Neottia banksiana / northwestern twayblade
- orchid - with two stem-clasping leaves halfway up the stem
- moist, dim understory habitat, in clonal patches
- very small green orchid flower - 5 sickle-shaped petals and sepals, 1 broader green labellum (lip)
- small, insignificant and easily overlooked
Noccea fendleri ssp. idahoensis / wild candytuft
- white crucifer, four petals in two parallel rows
- flowers in terminal clusters
- basal rosette leaves with a few on the stalks
- wetter areas
Oenothera villosa / hairy evening primrose
- yellow flowers on tall stalks, several flowers in a cluster
- 4 petals; 8 stamens; large, 4 part stigma
- hairy - often reddish - stems; hairy leaves
- lance-shaped leaves, larger on stem than basal
- disturbed areas and stream banks
Osmorhiza spp / sweet cicely
- broad compound, bluntly toothed, fern-like leaves 3 times compoundly divided
- compound umbels of tiny white flowers; May-June
- short, understory herb
Oxytropis sericea / white-point vetch
- white "pea" flowers in clusters of up to 25
- banner petal white with purple/blue veins
- hairy, pinnately compound leaves, all basal
- disturbed areas, especially exposed to cold, drought, high light etc.
- pretty, but toxic to grazing animals
Ozomelis stauropetala / side-flowered mitrewort
- teeny, white, star-like flowers spaced out on one side of a leafless stem
- basal leaves, slightly lobed
- understory in moist woods
Packera multilobata / lobeleaf groundsel
- deeply lobed leaves, mostly at the base of the plant
- bright yellow daisy-like flowers, 10-30 in a cluster per plant
- orange-yellow disk florets
- woodlands, foothills, and generally dry/ sandy/ rocky places.
Packera pseudaurea / falsegold groundsel
- yellow, flat-topped cluster of daisy-like flowers
- oval, erect basal leaves with long petioles and round/blunt-toothed edges
- generally in moist to wet habitats
Pedicularis bracteosa / towering lousewort
- dense, narrow inflorescence on upper half of stem
- yellow, beak-like flowers with upper and lower lips
- flowers from bottom to top
- conspicuous, fern-like leaves
- old flowers become light brown but remain on stalk
Pedicularis groenlandica / elephant head
- flowers range from pink to purple or white
- flowers each have a long, pointed, upward curving beak like an elephant's trunk and lateral lobes that look like elephant's ears
- sharply-toothed fernlike leaves
- wet environments in late June, early July
Penstemon cyaneus / blue penstemon
- two-toned totally tubular flower (blue and pink-ish)
- early spring to at least mid-summer
- widespread in low disturbance habitats - even when rocky and "bare"