stream banks

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  • 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

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