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  • Agoseris aurantiaca / orange mountain dandelion

    • unusual burnt-orange color
    • basically - looks like an orange dandelion
    • linear leaves - unlike the "real" dandelion

  • Balsamorhiza macrophylla / cutleaf balsamroot

    • large, yellow, sunflower-like blossom
    • large, dissected/lobed/compound-looking leaves
    • up to 40" tall
    • roadsides or hillsides with arrowleaf balsamroot and Wyethia

  • Cirsium hookerianum / Hooker’s thistle

    • clearly a thistle, but with white flowers
    • native but not plentiful
    • seen at Mahogany Creek in mid-August

  • Fritillaria atropurpurea / spotted fritillary

    • uncommon, difficult to find, hard to see
    • six "petal" nodding flower - yellow with dark purple spots
    • six bright yellow anthers
    • few, grass-like leaves
    • usually growing in the [plant] litter at the edge of a forest

  • Hesperis matronalis / dame’s rocket

    • biennial, 3+ feet tall in second year
    • 4-petaled flowers, especially purple or lavender
    • large inflorescences with many flowers
    • garden escapee
    • roadsides, waste places

  • Pyrola asarifolia / pink pyrola

    • 4 to 25 nodding red (or pink) and white flowers in a loose raceme
    • round petals, edges often curved down
    • green style extends out of flower like elephant's trunk
    • flower stems may be over a foot tall
    • leaves are "liver" shaped or "ginger" shaped and shiny - round-ish but wider than long

  • Telesonix heucheriformis / false saxifrage

    • alpine or subalpine
    • on scree, rock faces, cliffs, in cracks
    • glandular, slightly lobed leaves (common for the family)
    • teeny red or purple-ish flowers in large-ish clusters
    • blooms in August at high altitudes

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