seeps

Wet areas on hillsides, probably marked as a “sensitive area”

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  • Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock

    • HIGHLY TOXIC
    • primarily on continuously wet soils, e.g. ditches, stream banks, pond margins, marshes.
    • white compound umbel inflorescence typical of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae
    • multiply compound leaves with prominent veins ending in notches between lobes

  • Cirsium vulgare / bull thistle

    • very nasty spines all over, including stems
    • purple flower head over pear/egg-shaped narrow, spiny bracts
    • fruits are thistle-downy
    • disturbed areas, but also forest gaps, stream sides and seeps

  • Equisetum hyemale / rough horsetail

    • thin green stems with black bands; no branches
    • possible cone-like structure at the apex
    • usually in large colonies
    • prefers continuously moist soils

  • Erythranthe guttata / seep monkeyflower

    • yellow flowers with red spots in clumps of 5 or more
    • flowers large for the plant, but otherwise "normal" size
    • two "lips" - lower lip larger than upper, each with 2 petals
    • found in wetlands of all kinds

  • Iris missouriensis / western blue flag iris

    • wetland monocot - long leaves, parallel veins
    • large blue flower with yellow "signal" stripe, purple veins
    • 3 petals, 3 sepals make up the flower
    • blooms in spring
    • "like a domestic iris on a diet"

  • Mertensia ciliata / mountain bluebells

    • taller than others bluebells - up to four feet
    • often forms dense stands by streams and seeps
    • flowers dark blue, bell-shaped, held on one side of stem
    • leaves blue-green, pointed, with prominent veins, marginal pointy hairs

  • Neottia banksiana / northwestern twayblade

    • orchid - with two stem-clasping leaves halfway up the stem
    • moist, dim understory habitat, in clonal patches
    • very small green orchid flower - 5 sickle-shaped petals and sepals, 1 broader green labellum (lip)
    • small, insignificant and easily overlooked

  • Orthilia secunda / sidebell wintergreen

    • evergreen herb or sub-shrub
    • boggy understory and forest stream banks
    • basal, egg-shaped leaves with prominent veins
    • very small to teeny creamy or green-ish flowers all on one side of stem

  • 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

  • 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

  • Rudbeckia occidentals / western coneflower

    • dark cone-shaped flower head - like a sunflower without petals
    • ring of yellow "bumps" visible during pollination time
    • "cones" about 1" but double that when in seed.
    • usually a tall plant with sunflower-like leaves
    • alternate (not opposite) leaves

  • 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

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