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Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Light purple/maroon upper petals with a deeper maroon lower lip, flowers on a stem with no leaves, stem is light maroon/white, flowers lower down on the inflorescence are more mature than flowers higher up on the inflorescence, no photosynthetic, green organs.
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Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica)Observer
seyfrgDescription
This plant wasn't in flower when I saw it in May, leaves were fairly large and thin with reddish petioles, thin, papery ocrea present at each of the leaf nodes.
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Wood Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis sylvatica)Observer
seyfrgDescription
This flower has 5, light blue petals with a yellow corona, gamopetalous with male and female reproductive parts within the corolla tube, small flowers in bunched inflorescences of around 5-10 flowers, leaves simple, arranges alternately, fairly long and slender, small plants, close to the ground.
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Stream Violet (Viola glabella)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Small, singular, bright yellow flower with a darkly colored pattern on the lower petal, 5 petals, bottom-most with the presence of a spur, leaves with serrate margins and cordate shape, larger near the bottom of the plat and smaller near the top, small plant,growing solitary close to the ground.
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Spring Beauties (Genus Claytonia)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Very small, low growing plant, small, white flowers, 5 petals, slightly bilobed at tips, 2 sepals, deltoid leaves, slightly succulent, leaves arranged alternately up the stem, larger than the flowers which are singular and located at the tips of the stems
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Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)Observer
seyfrgDescription
small, light purple flowers with darker purple/white stripes protruding from center of corolla, 5 petals, 5 stigmas, herbaceous, stems/leaves covered in simple hairs, leaves highly lobed, alternately arranged
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Lupines (Genus Lupinus)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Whorled arrangement of slender leaves that were each bent into a v-shape, around 10 leaves per whorl, leaf whorls clearly separated and distinct, light purple/violet flag flowers in a raceme inflorescence, top flowers of inflorescence younger than lower flowers, fairly low to ground, in clusters of numerous individuals
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Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Small, white flowers in a raceme inflorescence,fairly closely bunched together, 5 petals, many stamens protruding from the falt arrangement of sepals, fairly distinct hypanthium, leaves ovately shaped, simple, slightly serrate margins
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Pinemat Manzanita (Arctostaphylos nevadensis)Observer
seyfrgDescription
small white flowers with some maroon markings, flowers in a raceme inflorescence, oblanceolate leaf shape, thick, leathery leaves
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Larkspurs (Genus Delphinium)Observer
seyfrgDescription
Light violet/blue, zygomorphic, many stamens concealed by a hood, fairly small plant growing on the edge of a dry hillside in Leavenworth. Flowers fairly spread out in inflorescence and probably around 5 per inflorescence. Alternate branching pattern, long protruding spike in sepal
