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Tragopogon spp. / salsify
- large yellow inflorescence with pointy sepals extending past the "flower"
- grass-like leaves
- non-native, weed
- widespread
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Tripleurospermum inodorum / scentless chamomile
- daisy-like blossoms with finely divided leaves
- central disk shape changes from button- to dome- to hemisphere- with age
- ray petals droop as disk expands
- leaves don't smell when crushed
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Turritis glabra / tower mustard
- long (3"-ish) stick-like seedpods, erect and hugging the stem
- nondescript mustard-family 4 petalled flowers in a cluster at the top
- tall stem with leaves clasping the stem (no petioles)
- generally in exposed, dry habitats
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Urtica dioica / stinging nettle
- near streams and moist bogs, in woodland understories, disturbed places, wastelands
- leaves - strongly serrated margin, a heart-shaped base, a pointed tip
- flower - greenish or brownish in dense dangling clusters
- nasty hairs that sting you
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Verbascum thapsus / mullein
- rosette of large, soft, hairy leaves
- small yellow flowers densely packed on a very tall spike
- persistent ugly brown spike after flowering is done
- often on otherwise bare ground
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Veronica officinalis / heath speedwell
- prostrate, herbaceous perennial
- hairy green stems and leaves (obvious)
- short, erect, spike-like shoots
- ¼" blue/violet flowers
- 4 petals with purple stripes
- gaps and exposed soils
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Wyethia amplexicaulis / yellow mules ear
- blooms in late June, July
- large yellow sunflower-like central flower, smaller additional flowers
- long, shiny, not-hairy leaves - like green mule's ears
- strongly aromatic
- may cover acres, almost as a monoculture
- crunchy in the fall
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