rocky areas
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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
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Stenotus acaulis / stemless goldenweed
- very short, mat forming perennial yellow "daisy"
- thin, lance-shaped leaves, pointing upward
- yellow flower head with 6-15 ray florets, up to 50 disk florets
- in dry, rocky, open-scrub habitats
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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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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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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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Viola praemorsa / upland yellow violet
- yellow, 5-petals with purple "pencilling" on lower petals
- back sides up upper petals brown-ish
- leaves relatively thick, likely with many short hairs
- on dry, rocky soils, often with sagebrush or steep slopes
- soon after snowmelt; follows the snow up the mountains
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Viola vallicola / sagebrush violet
- early, bright yellow violet, usually in sagebrush
- lanceolate leaves with long petioles
- moderate purplish "pencilling" on lower petal; 1-2 lines on side petals
- back sides of petals usually yellow (not brown)
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