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Saskatoon Berry
Amelanckier
alnifolia
Shrub to over 5m high.
Leaves. Deciduous and
round to oval. Flowers are showy, white and in
leafy clusters Shorelines, meadows, thickets
and forest open areas.
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White Marsh Marigold
Caltha
leptosepala
A perennial flower growing
to 40 cm. The leaves
are mostly basal and as wide as they are long.
They are round to kidney shaped The flowers are
showy white, normally two to a stem. High elevations
in bogs, fens, wet forests.
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American
Searocket
Cakile
edentula
Annual seashore herb.
Sprawling to50cm.
Leaves, fleshy, broad stalks Flowers, white to
purplish-tinged. Several in short clusters.
Sandy beaches.
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Seaside Rein Orchid
Platanthera
greenei
A perennial from fibrous
roots with erect stems
to 80 cm tall. Leaves are in basal pairs and soon wither
as it flowers late spring to summer. Flowers.
White sweet smelling with a long spur to 2 cm.
Low elevations in grassy areas and rocky slopes.
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Bleeding Heart
Dicentra
formosa
Perennial. Flower
stems are leafless to a height of 15-50cm.Leaves are
basal and numerous, long stalked,
fern like and well divided. Flowers, pinkish-purple,
5 to 15 in clusters at the top of the stem.Moist forests
and ravines.
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Sulpher
Cinquefoil
Potentilla
recta
Erect perennial plant to
80cm tall.Leaves are mostly
on the stem, palmately divided into 5 to 7 leaflets.
Flowers are yellow and showy in flat topped clusters.
Mostly at low elevations in disturbed sites.
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Common Burdock
Arctium
minus
Biennial. Stems are leafy
to 1.5m tall.
Large leaves to 30cm. Long, 25cm wide.
Flower heads, pink to purple, disc flowers only,
thistle like. Roadsides, pastures, disturbed sites
in low elevations.
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Goats Beard
Aruncus
sylvester
A perennial plant from
creeping rhizomes to
2m tall. Several stems. Large leaves that become
smaller higher up the plant. Three times compound.
The white flowers are very tiny. Male and female
flowers on separate plants. Grows in roadsides
and edges of forests and streams.
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Woodland Star
Lithophragma
parviflorum
Perennial. Stems 10-40cm
tall Hairy, usually purplish
towards the top with three leaves. Flowers white
to pink,
petals 5-10mm, usually deeply lobed at the tip.
Dry open grassy slopes, coastal bluffs.
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Indian Paintbrush
Castilleja
miniata
Perennial. Stems
few, usually erect 20-80cm tall.
Leaves are narrow and sharp pointed.
The flowers, inconspicuous, greenish and hidden
by red to scarlet, sharp toothed bracts.
Open woods, meadows, thickets and roadsides.
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Pearly
Everlasting
Anaphalis
margaritaea
Perennial. Stems
usually unbranched 20-100cm tall.
Leaves, alternate, narrow lance shaped..Greenish
above,
white woolly beneath. Flower heads are small, white
and densely packed clusters. Roadsides and clearings.
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Leather Leaf Saxifrage
Leptarrhena
pyrolifolia
Perennial with unbranched
stems 20 to 40cm tall.
Leaves are purplish red in the fall. Mostly basal
and hairless, margins round toothed. White flowers,
purplish-red fruits. Can be found on stream banks
and in mossy areas.
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Scarlet
Pimpernel
Anagallis
arvensis
Introduced annual. Leaves are egg
shaped and
pointed and opposite.Flowers, salmon color on
curving stalks. Its a weedy species.
Found in clearings and waste areas.
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Olympic Mountain Aster
Aster
paucicapitatus
Perennial plant to 60cm
tall. Leaves are small,
4cm long and glandular hairy.
Flowers are white ray flowers
Meadows and rocky slopes to high elevations
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Yellow Eyed
Grass
Sisyrinchium
californicum
Perennial showy plant that
grows up to 40cm high.
Leaves are mostly basal in clumps of narrow grass
like leaves.Flowers are yellow with brownish veins
and in terminal clusters. Wet or moist edges of ponds
and boggy areas.
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European Bittersweet
Solanum
dulcamara
Perennial. The stems are
vine like 1-3m long,
climbing or sprawling on vegetation close by.
The leaves are alternate, egg shaped.
The flowers are bluish purple and yellow.
Roadsides, moist clearings.
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Few Flowered Shooting Star
Dodecatheon
pulchellum
Perennial plant with
leafless stems. Leaves are
oblong to lance shaped to 20cm long.
Flowers. Magenta color with 5 petals swept
backward with a yellow collar. Moist meadows
and streambanks and sea level to high elevations.
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Hookers Onion
Allium
acuminatum
Perennial plant about 30cm
high. Basal leaves dying
off before the flower appears. Flowers are rose pink and
the tepals turn backwards at the tip.
Found in open rocky sites.
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Small Flower
Blue Eyed Mary
Collinsia
parviflora
Annual. Leafy stem
usually erect or ascending,
sometimes sprawling. Leaves 1-4cm long, bract
like in the inflorescence. Flowers blue with some white,
2 lobed. Mossy outcroppings, gravelly flats.
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Yellow Rattle
Rhinanthus
minor
Annual. Stems leafy and
erect, few branched
10 to 80cm tall. Stalkless leaves lance shaped
2-7cm long. Flowers, yellow 9-14mm, 2 lipped
with upper lip hooded, lower lip is 3 lobed.
Meadows, grassy sites, beaches.
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Spotted Coralroot
Corallorhiza
Perennial parasite plant
in humus and decaying
matter. Leaves are reduced to sheathing scales.
Flower. Pink to red with white lip with magenta
spots. Rich humus in dry forests, often in shade
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Striped Coralroot
Corallorhiza
striata
Perennial plant with
purplish stalks. Leaves are
thin, semi transparent. Flowers are a yellowish pink
with reddish stripes, drooping in loose clusters.
Moist forest floors in shade, ravines and streambanks.
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Yellow Sand Verbena
Abronia
latifolia
Perennial plant with the stems
trailing along the
sand to 1m long. The leaves are thick and fleshy on
long stalks. The flowers are a bright yellow with
several in a ball shape head. Its habitat is sandy
beaches and dunes.
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Tufted Vetch
Vicia
cracca
Perennial trailing or
climbing. Stems to 2m long.
Leaves compound with terminal branched tendrils.
Leaflets 16 24. Flowers, blue to reddish purple,
pea like,
20-50 flowers. Thickets and open forests.
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