fens

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  • 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

  • Platanthera dilatata / white bog orchid

    • dense cluster of bright white, clove or cinnamon scented flowers
    • 2 wing-like sepals, a hood, and a lower lip with a spur
    • 3-6 principle leaves... alternate, lance-shaped
    • in boggy wet areas

  • Platanthera huronensis / green bog orchid

    • usually in bogs, fens, wetlands
    • up to two feet tall, but often shorter
    • thick, nearly vertical leaves with parallel veins (i.e. grass-like)
    • up to 75 very small flowers per stem (raceme)
    • flowers -light green to greenish-white; two petals, three sepals, a lip and club-like spur
    • lip is not pouch-like

  • Polemonium occidentale / western Jacob’s ladder

    • brilliantly blue flowers with bright yellow anthers, in clusters
    • pinnately compound leaves with up to 27 narrow, lance-shaped leaflets
    • most leaves on separate stems from the flowers
    • usually in wetlands

  • Potentilla fruticosa / shrubby cinquefoil

    • low, deciduous, shrub; wetlands and riparian zones
    • yellow buttercup-like flowers with 5 leaflets, often in clusters
    • blooms from June until frost
    • pinnately compound leaves, typically with 5 leaflets
    • fruit (achene) remains into winter

  • Potentilla norvegica / rough cinquefoil

    • 5 yellow petals, not fused
    • 5 sepals longer than petals, esp. after flowering
    • numerous stamens and pistils
    • compound leaves with leaflets grouped in 3s
    • prominent veins; toothed margins
    • hairy stems
    • mostly in disturbed areas, including gardens

  • Pyrola asarifolia / pink pyrola

    • 4 to 25 nodding red (or pink) and white flowers in a loose raceme
    • round petals, edges often curved down
    • green style extends out of flower like elephant's trunk
    • flower stems may be over a foot tall
    • leaves are "liver" shaped or "ginger" shaped and shiny - round-ish but wider than long

  • Ranunculus orthorhynchus / straightbeak buttercup

    • 5 (to 8) bright, shiny yellow petals with long pedicels
    • many stamens and pistils
    • large, compound leaves with 3-5 pointy-lobed leaflets
    • found in wet areas including irrigation ditches

  • Scutellaria galericulata / marsh skullcap

    • riparian zones and wetlands
    • blue, trumpet shaped (legume) flowers; usually in pairs on same side of a stem
    • flowers not at the top of the stems
    • square stems, widely spaced opposite leaves; adjacent pairs at right angles

  • 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

  • Sonchus arvensis / field sowthistle

    • yellow dandelion-like
    • multiple flowers per stalk
    • often in patches in wet fields
    • leaves spiney but without lobes, clasping the stems
    • often several stems from a single point at the soil level

  • Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover

    • a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
    • leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
    • leaves on long petioles
    • flower heads on long peduncles,

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