meadows

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  • Poa bulbosa / bulbous meadow-grass

    • short, tuft-forming grass
    • funny-looking flower stalks... having bulblets instead of florets
    • doesn't produce pollen or seeds

  • Potentilla gracilis / slender cinquefoil

    • yellow, 5-petaled flowers with many stamens
    • petals touch or overlap
    • leaves with 5-9 toothed, deeply cut lobes
    • leaves may be hairy, especially below
    • many different exposed habitats

  • Ribes aureum / golden current

    • shrub up to 10 feet tall
    • spring bloomer, golden yellow flower in clusters
    • small, maple-like leaves
    • 1/2 inch berries in late summer, golden to black

  • Ribes lacustre / prickly currant

    • deeply lobed, maple-like leaves
    • prickly stems with spines at nodes
    • shrub to ca. 4 feet tall
    • teeny cream & purple flowers in dangling clusters in spring
    • red berries in late summer maturing to very small black berries

  • Sambucus nigra / common elderberry

    • shrub or small tree blooming in late spring
    • leaves opposite
    • pinnately compound with up to 9 leaflets with serrated edges
    • flowers are white, 5-petaled, in flat-topped clusters of clusters
    • "berries" are red or dark blue/black in August; often drooping when mature

  • Scrophularia lanceolate / lanceleaf figwort

    • teeny, snapdragon-like flowers
    • flowers urn-shaped with yellow with red or green on the outside
    • flowers look like they aren't yet opened
    • flowers on elongated panicle at the top of a tall-ish plant
    • opposite leaves like stinging nettle without the stingers
    • up to 5 feet tall in full sun/partial shade

  • Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel

    • early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
    • bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
    • only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
    • cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
    • seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen

  • Solidago canadensis / goldenrod

    • large sprays of yellow flowers in late summer and fall
    • often tall and in large colonies
    • lance-shaped, toothed leaves
    • mostly (but not always) in disturbed areas

  • Thlaspi arvense / field pennycress

    • inflorescence a raceme with white, teeny flowers
    • oval seed pods ca. 1/3" across
    • blooms late spring and summer
    • continues blooming as pods fill from older flowers
    • common weed in disturbed habitats including cultivated land

  • Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas

    • cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
    • branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
    • 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
    • grass/lily-like leaves
    • blooms early in the season

  • Triteleia grandiflora / wild hyacinth

    • terminal cluster of several, blue (to white) funnel-shaped flowers
    • 6 tepals, 3 of which look wrinkled; deep blue lines on each tepal
    • only 2-3 very long thin basal leaves
    • onion-like but not smelly
    • mostly in grasslands - late June, early July

  • Vaccinium scoparium / grouse whortleberry

    • low growing deciduous shrub
    • clonally spreading
    • green twigs and small (3/4 inch), oval, light green leaves
    • teeny, pendant, urn-shaped white/pink flowers
    • red berries in fall

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