widespread
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Achillea millefolium / yarrow
- common - white umbrella-type flower
- feathery leaves
- clonal; often found in patches
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Agastache urticifolia / western horsemint
- short or tall flower heads ranging from pale to deep purple
- square stems, opposite leaves
- minty aroma
- common along trails, especially in sun
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Alyssum desertorum / desert madwort
- short crucifer with teeny leaves, no basal rosettes
- short inflorescence with numerous teeny yellow flowers... short-lived
- seed capsules mature by mid-July, ca. 40/stalk
- disturbed sites of any kind
- often in dense populations
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Amaranthus retroflexus / pigweed
- green bottle-brush inflorescence
- accomplished weed on disturbed sites (including road & driveway cracks)
- often in gardens, farm fields (edges), roadsides
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Amelanchier alnifolia / serviceberry
- erect shrub (3-18 ft), common in the Valley
- usually several trunks
- compact, fragrant white flower clusters
- star-like flowers
- smallish, light-green, oval leaves
- small, edible blue "berries" by July
- red/orange fall leaf color
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Anticlea elegans / mountain death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers; overall hexagonal appearance
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers not tightly packed
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms in summer (July/August)
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Arctium minus / lesser burdock
- purple to pink to lavender thistle-like flowers with hooked bracts
- nasty hooked seed heads
- very large, heart-shaped leaves
- found in a wide variety of disturbed areas
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Artemisia tridentata / mountain big sagebrush
- medium-sized grey-green shrub
- highly aromatic
- tall, spikey inflorescences with many clusters of invisible flowers
- limited to drier habitats (not the Valley basin)
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Bassia scoparia / burningbush
- large, annual herb (forb)
- leaves long-ish and narrow
- inflorescence a highly branched spike with teeny green/yellow flowers
- may form huge, invasive colonies
- whole plant turns red in fall
- a tumbleweed
- especially in disturbed areas and wastelands in the Valley
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Beteroa incana / hoary alyssum
- dense clusters of teeny white flowers
- 4 petals, each with a notch
- fruit is a short, fat-ish seed pod (silicle)
- found in pastures and all manner of disturbed habitats
- toxic to horses
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Blitum nuttallianum / Nuttall’s povertyweed
- ugly little creeping plant from a central stem
- arrow-shaped leaves with two prominent lobes, especially on lower leaves
- teeny clusters of teeny greenish flowers; no petals; in most leaf axils
- widespread, but usually exposed and weed-like
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Campanula rotundifolia / American harebell
- blue or blue-ish bell-shaped flower
- fused petals with pointy ends make the bell
- exudes white latex when wounded
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