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White flowers with pinkish spots growing in a terminal cluster.
Horse Chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
Invasive
a bee on a lavender flower, flowers are arranged in an umbel on short stalks that emerge from a central core.
Tapertip Allium
Allium acuminatum
Native
a field of narrowleaf allium in bloom with pinkish flower clusters
Narrowleaf Allium
Allium amplectens
Native
Tall spire of smaller purple flowers with yellow and white stamen
Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruticosa
Invasive
a carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Native
Coyote Brush covered in small white flowers
Chaparral Broom
Baccharis pilularis
Native
purple upright funnel shaped flower
Elegant Brodiaea
Brodiaea elegans
Native
tapering spikes of purple flowers thrust out from lance shaped leaves
Butterfly Bush
Buddleja davidii
Invasive
three fuzzy white pointy-tipped petals tinged with purple at center
Mariposa Lily
Calochortus tolmiei
Native
a rounded tuft of foothill sedge with thin leaves that are pretty straight.
Foothill Sedge
Carex tumulicola
Grass
Native
red paintbrush inflorescences rise above dusky rose sea blush
Giant Red Paintbrush
Castilleja miniata
Native
Buckbrush Ceanothus cuneatus stem with clusters of small white flowers and glossy oval leaves
Buckbrush
Ceanothus cuneatus
Native
A shrub that grows upright with most of the leaves coming out from the top part of the plant, lower half is a few straight stems, rather reddish. Clusters of small white flowers at branch tips
Redstem Ceanothus
Ceanothus sanguineus
Native
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Native
Crataegus suksdorfii, a triploid form, Castlegar BC, Canada
Suksdorf’s Hawthorn
Crataegus x suksdorfii
Native
a patch of ferns that taper and curve
California Wood Fern
Dryopteris arguta
Native
a few bunches of thin-leaved, partially dead needlegrass mixed in with kinnikinnick and leaf litter.
Lemmon’s Needlegrass
Eriocoma lemmonii
Grass
Native
bunches of bright yellow flowers
Sulphur-Flower Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum 
Native
Nodding yellow lilies with broad grass-like basal foliage, similar to fawn lily.
Glacier-Lily
Erythronium grandiflorum
Native
sunflower family yellow flower with brown center
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia aristata
Native
purple iris flowers with yellow and white center veins
Douglas Iris
Iris douglasiana
Native
close-up of whole plant
Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
Grass
Native
Close up of lamatioum inflorescence composed of many small, yellow flowers in a sphere
Fernleaf Biscuitroot
Lomatium dissectum
Native
a mat of small linear to lance shaped grayish green leaves at base with a tall stalk rising up with a sphere of small yellow flowers that branch out from center
Barestem Biscuitroot
Lomatium nudicaule
Native
pink honeysuckle flowers and fused opposite leaves
Hairy Honeysuckle
Lonicera hispidula
Native
The top of a broadleaf lupine inflorescence with pea-type purple and white flowers.
Broadleaf Lupine
Lupinus latifolius
Native
purple flower clusters atop reddish stems
Rydberg’s Penstemon
Penstemon rydbergii
Native
a characteristic carrot family umbel of small white flowers with an orange and black butterfly visitor
Oregon Yampah
Perideridea oregana
Native
a stand of tall thin closely packed trees
Quaking Aspen
Populus tremuloides
Native
Bitter Cherry
Prunus emarginata
Native
a hanging flower
Straggly Gooseberry
Ribes divaricatum
Native
Succulent short fat reddish purple leaves and a yellow flower
Spreading Stonecrop
Sedum divergens
Native
Oval, somewhat dentate leaves and a cluster of small white, fuzzy-looking flowers
Birchleaf Spirea
Spiraea betulifolia
Native
leaves and yellow pea family flowers
Slender Goldenbanner
Thermopsis gracilis
Native
close up of the tiny greenish yellow flowers of stinging nettle
Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica
Native
a small yellow flowered violet
Upland Yellow Violet
Viola praemorsa
Native
all yellow sunflower family disk and ray flower
Narrowleaf Mule’s Ear
Wyethia angustifolia
Native
a single bear-grass plant that looks like a bunch grass with a tile flower spike rising up from the center with small white flowers covering the raceme.
Beargrass
Xerophyllum tenax
Native
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