stream banks

Showing 37–47 of 47 results

Senecio triangularis / arrowleaf ragwort
- leafy stems with arrow-shaped, coarse-toothed leaves
- often in large patches on moist soil
- clusters of yellow flower heads, each with 8-ish untidy ray florets
- numerous green involucral bracts, sometimes with black tips
- largest leaves occur mid-stem
Shepherdia canadensis / Canadian buffaloberry
- deciduous shrub, opposite branches and leaves; understory
- trichomes (hairs) on lower, often upper surfaces.
- lower surface has rust-colored scales
- teeny yellowish flowers before leaves appear; male and female on separate plants
- red or orange, oval fruits with one stony seed; soapy when crushed
Streptopus amplexifolius / white twisted-stalk
- creeping herb
- oval, clasping leaves; parallel veins; sharp tip
- pronounced stem "kink" at each node gives twisted look
- drooping, cream-colored flowers, 6 recurved tepals, borne singly
- single, elongated red berries in fall
- found in moist undergrowth
Taraxia tanacetifolia / tansyleaf evening primrose
- single, sessile, bright yellow, cup shaped flowers; 4 petals
- grows as a rosette, flat to the ground
- leaves are up to 12 inches long; very deeply lobed
- still blooming in mid-October; starts in mid summer
- grows on sandy/gravelly soil, e.g. drying lake beds
Thalictrum occidentale / western meadow-rue
- delicate compound leaves, each segment with 3 lobes
- leaves "look like" columbine
- male and female flowers on separate plants
- all flowers teeny, in clumps, somewhat to really purple
- in moist habitats, esp. stream banks in forests
Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover
- a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
- leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
- leaves on long petioles
- flower heads on long peduncles,
Typha latifolia / cattail
- tall, grass-like with thick, long, flat leaves
- in wet areas, especially streams and stream banks
- inflorescence club-like spike; yellow (male) above, green (female) below
- seed head dark brown club, with bare spike above
- fruits (seeds) white & fluffy, released in late summer, autumn, winter
Veronica americana / American brooklime
- teeny, 4-petaled blue or violet-ish flowers, white centers
- in small clumps on stream banks and in other very wet areas
- may be found as a single plant or as a large and dense population - clonal
Veronica anagallis-aquatica / blue water speedwell
- small blue to mauve or lavender flowers; 4 petals
- many flowers per stalk, but only a few blooming at once
- opposite leaves tightly clasping the stems
- in standing water or slowly moving streams
Viola adunca / hooked violet
- early spring, low to ground
- small violet (blue) flowers with small white beards, small reddish spur
- heart-shaped leaves
- generally in somewhat moist areas
Zizia aptera / golden Alexanders
- yellow, compound umbel infloresecence
- basal leaves are heart-shaped
- blooms in early to late spring