roadsides
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Penstemon eatonii / firecracker penstemon
- roadsides, especially revegetated by DOT
- 2" brilliantly red, tubular flowers
- mostly basal leaves, ovate to lanceolate, leathery
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Penstemon rydbergii / Rydberg’s penstemon
- small, blue/purple tubular flowers in leafy whorls
- flowers lack glands or hairs
- basal rosette of bright green, spoon-shaped leaves without glands or hairs
- stem leaves are lanceolate, around flower clusters
- wetter areas, but also along Victor/Driggs bike path
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Plantago major / broadleaf plantain
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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
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Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed
- long, prostrate stems around a central point
- copious red-edged white flowers
- small green leaves
- along roadsides, parking lots and wherever trampling occurs
- an ugly weed you'll see on most of your walks around town
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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
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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
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Prunus virginiana / western chokecherry
- oval leaves with serrated margins and abrupt taper at tip
- reddish twigs with prominent lenticels
- drooping clumps of white flowers w/ yellow centers in spring
- red to black cherries in fall, up to ½ inch diameter
- leaves turn orange or yellow in fall
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Rhamphospermum arvense / Charlock
- yellow-flowered brassica; flowers larger than most mustards
- large-ish leaves with toothed margins
- erect stems; look for a reddish purple ring at stem junctions
- disturbed areas, road sides and waste places; prefers high nutrients
- 1" siliques point out or up, but not down
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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
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Rumex acetosella / sheep sorrel
- long, vertical inflorescences... not compact or well "organized"
- female plants with red/maroon flowers; males with green/white flowers
- especially visible when seeds are ripe... red
- basal rosette of arrowhead shaped leaves
- disturbed areas, wastelands, poor sites
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Rumex crispus / curly dock
- rather large, lance-shaped leaves
- curly leaf margins, like crisped bacon or "crinkly-wavy"
- tall flowering stalks with many, many small yellow/green-ish flowers
- fruits are just like the flowers but deep red
- widespread and very much a weed
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