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Senecio integerrimus / tall western groundsel
- early spring to early summer, often with larkspur
- bright yellow flower head with several, disheveled looking blossoms
- only 5-13 ray florets (petals)
- cobwebby hairy basal leaves, especially when young
- seasonally moist areas, from sagebrush to higher parts of the fen
Silene latifolia / white campion
- white, 5-petaled flowers with distinctive inflated calyx (bladder)
- flowers in clusters atop stems
- whole plant densely hairy
- widespread on alkaline soils (e.g. the Valley)
Sisymbrium altissimum / tumble mustard
- inflorescence a raceme with yellow, teeny flowers
- long, thin seed pods (siliques)
- blooms throughout the spring and summer
- shoots look like a bunch of sticks glued together
- dries and breaks off, then tumbles
Sorbus scopulina / western mountain ash
- moderate sized shrub with pinnately compound leaves
- 9-13 leaflets per leaf (usually)
- teeny white flowers in large rounded clusters
- yellow berries in August become bright red in September
- rocky hillsides, creek sides, open woods
Tanacetum vulgare / tansy
- yellow, somewhat flattened, button-like flowers
- pretty clearly in the aster family
- camphor-ish smell
- finely divided, fern-like compound leaves
Thlaspi arvense / field pennycress
- inflorescence a raceme with white, teeny flowers
- oval seed pods ca. 1/3" across
- blooms late spring and summer
- continues blooming as pods fill from older flowers
- common weed in disturbed habitats including cultivated land
Trifolium repens / white clover
- the quintessential 3-leaf clover
- white flower heads, tinged with pink (perhaps)
- found in full sun with little other specific requirements
- four leaflet leaves bring good luck
Verbascum thapsus / mullein
- rosette of large, soft, hairy leaves
- small yellow flowers densely packed on a very tall spike
- persistent ugly brown spike after flowering is done
- often on otherwise bare ground