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Northern Geranium
Geranium
erianthum
Perennial. Woody stems
base, leafy and hairy
to 80cm tall. Leaves are palmately deeply
divided into irregularly lobed and toothed
segments.Flowers, blue to pink-purple in loose
clusters.Found at roadsides and in meadows
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Salsify
Tragopogon
porrifolius
Biennial or annual.Stems
often branched and
grass like leaves taper uniformly from base to
tip.Purple flowers that tend to close early
afternoon.Large dandelion type seed head.
Moist areas and waste land.
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Field Chickweed
Cerastium
arvense
Perennial, tufted or
clumped, stems trailing to
ascending, 5-50cm long. Leaves opposite 1-3cm long.
White flowers on hairy stalks, 5 petals deeply
notched at tip. Dry ground, rocky slopes,
meadows and bluffs.
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Spring Balsamroot
Balsamorhiza
sagittata
Perennial plant growing to 80 cm.
Softly hairy
throughout. Leaves are mostly basal and arrow
shaped and very big to about 30 cm. The flowers
are bright yellow with solitary heads. Found at
low to middle elevations.
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Columbian Lily
Lilium
columbianum
Perennial with slender
stems to 1.2m tall.
Narrow lance shaped leaves. The flowers are
bright orange with deep red or purple spots
near the center. Meadows, thickets,
open woods.
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Nodding Onion
Allium
cernuum
Perennial plant with
slender stems to 50cm tall.
The leaves are grass like and remain green
though flowering period. Flowers are pink to
a rose-purple color. Many in a nodding clus
Enjoys dry open areas and grassy places.
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Deer Cabbage
Fauria
crista galli
Perennial plant, its
flowering stems leafless.Leaves.
Kidney to heart shape and all basal.Wider than they
are long. The petals are fused atthebase the lobes
have wavy flanges.Enjoys bogs and swamps,
wet meadows and seepage areas in forests.
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Herb Robert
Geranium
robertianum
Taprooted annual. Stems
branched, and bent
at the base to upright 10-60cm. Leaves pinnately
deeply divided and they are divided. Flowers are
pink to reddish purple, or pink with white stripe.
Enjoys the open forest habitat.
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Birds Foot Trfoil
Lotus
corniculatus
Perennial plant from
Europe Usually upright
to 30cm. Leaves are on sprawling stems that are
numerous and stalkless. Flowers, from 3 to 12
are bright yellow often tinged with red.
Roadsides, moist grassy areas.
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Death Camas
Zygadenus
venonosus
Perennial from oval bulbs.
Stems to 60cm tall.
Creamy white flowers are bell shaped with
green glands at the base of the petals.Many in
compact terminal cluster.Open forest,
damp meadows and grassy slopes.
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Broad Leaf Shooting Star
Dodecatheon
hendersonii
Perennial. Flowering
stems, leafless 5-50cm tall.
Leaves are broad and held flat to the ground.
Flowers are cyclamen shaped, rose-purple
colour, the tube is purple.Meadows, rocky bluffs,
stream banks.
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Chicory
Cichorium
intybus
Perennial herb with milky
juice, branched, leafy
and 30-150cm tall. Leaves alternate, lower
leaves stalked, lance shaped, deeply toothed
. Blue flowers upped 4cm wide.
Roadsides, fields, waste areas, usually dry.
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Satin Flower
Sisyrinchium
douglasii
Tufted perennial to 30cm
tall. Flattened stems
with usually two reddish-purple flowers to
4cm across, Dry rocky cliffs and meadows,
low to middle elevations. Early flowering in spring.
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Cooley's Hedge Nettle
Stachy's
cooleyae
Perennial. Stems erect,
leafy, mostly unbranched,
50-100cm tall. Leaves opposite, deltoid or heart
shaped, coarsely blunt toothed. Deep red flowers,
tube like. Moist roadsides, clearings and thickets.
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Self Heal
Prunella
vulgaris
Perennial. Stems erect to
spreading or reclining,
leafy and square in cross section. Leaves,
opposite and few. Flowers are purplish to pink,
two lipped tube, upper lip hooded bonnet like.
Moist roadsides and fields.
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Chocolate Lily
Fritillaria
lanceolata
Perennial to 80cm. tall.
Lance shaped leaves,
5 to 15cm. long. The flowers are dark purple
mottled with greenish-yellow. Bell shaped. Found
in open places, meadows, bluffs and woods.
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Foxglove
Digitalis
purpurea
Usually biennial.Leafy
stems, erect, unbranched
.5 to1.8m tall. Egg to lance shaped leaves, coarsely
toothed 15-40cm long. Flowers, pink to purple
with deeper purple spots, tube like.Habitat,
roadsides and fields.
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Black Twinberry
Lonicera
involucrata
Perennial shrub that can
reach 3m tall.Leaves
are opposite and short stalked, pointed and hairy
underneath.Flowers are yellow, tubular and in pairs.
The fruit is shiny black.Moist forest clearings,
swamps and streamside habitats.
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Small-flowered Lupine
Lupinus
polycarpos
Annual.Erect stems 10-45cm tall. Leaves,
palmately compound, 5-8 leaflets 4cm long.
Blue flowers, pea like, small in short clusters.
Open, gravelly and sandy sites at low elevations.
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Sitka Valerian
Valeriana
sitchensis
Perennial. Stems are
leafy, square in cross
section, succulent, 30-120cm tall. Large l
eaves are stalked and divided into 3-7 coarsely
toothed leaflets. White-pale pink flowers
in dense cluster. Moist meadows.
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Fringecup
Tellima
grandiflora
Perennial with curved
flowering stems at the base.
Leaves are basal with long stalks. Heart shaped
well lobed and toothed.Flowers are Greenish white
darkening with age. Spread over a long cluster.
Moist areas like forests, streambanks and glades.
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Western Bog Laurel
Kalmia
microphylla
Small slender branched
evergreen to 0.5m tall.
Leaves, narrow lance shaped, margins rolled over,
dark green. Flowers, rose pink, saucer-shaped in
loose terminal clusters. Bogs, wet mountain meadows.
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White Rhododendron
Rhododendron
albiflorum
Erect, slender, branched 1
to 2.5m tall.
Leaves, deciduous, clusters along branch especially
at tip, yellowish green. White to creamy flowers
cup shaped. Common at most subalpine elevations.
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White Campion
Sinene
alba
Perennial plant also
called Lychnis alba.
Leaves are stalkless, opposite and egg to
lance shaped.Flowers are white and have male
and female on separate plants.Introduced plant
in fields and waste places.
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