meadows
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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
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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
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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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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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