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Stem with ball cluster of unopened flowers
Biddy-Biddy
Acaena novae-zelandiae
Whole yarrow plant with feathery leaves and flat white flower tops
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
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
curled flower with white hairs and orange petals
Menzies’ Fiddleneck
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia
a cluster of small white many-petaled disk and ray flowers with yellow centers
Pearly Everlasting
Anaphalis margaritacea
whole columbine plant with red flowers rising above foliage
Red Columbine
Aquilegia formosa
a tight, semi-spherical cluster of small pink sea thrift flowers at the top of a stem
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
whole plant showing plumes of inflorescences and mounded leaves
Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
loosely arranged compound leaves of lady fern with deeply dissected leaflets
Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
deer fern fronds viewed from above
Deer Fern
Blechnum spicant
Crown Brodiaea
Brodiaea coronaria
three fuzzy white pointy-tipped petals tinged with purple at center
Mariposa Lily
Calochortus tolmiei
a spike of star shaped purple camas flowers
Great Camas
Camassia leichtlinii ssp suksdorfii
a field of camas mixed with grasses
Common Camas
Camassia quamash
Italian Thistle Carduus pycnocephalus Stalk with long spiky leaves and green spiky unopened flower pod
Italian Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus
Pinkish flower subtended by bracts with long spines.
Purple Starthistle
Centaurea calcitrapa
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
Two spiky flower heads, on spiky stems, with yellow flower
Yellow Starthistle
Centaurea solstitialis
a patch of fireweed with spires of purple flowers that taper to a point atop green spears of small lance shaped leaves
Fireweed
Chamerion angustifolium
a thin stalked larskspur with dissected foliage and multiple blue flowers
Columbia Larkspur
Delphinium trollifollium
a cluster of purple flowers, each with 6 petals, atop a leafless stalk
Ookow
Dichelostemma congestum
Oblong tapered leaf with serated edges
Cutleaf Teasel
Dipsacus laciniatus
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