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Tentatively yarrow. The leaves are very fuzzy, as you
can kinda see in the second picture. |
| Tansy Mustard. We have big fields full of it. |
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The curly things in the foreground are fiddlenecks. |
| I think this stuff is yellow pepperweed. No, I'm not making
that up. |
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Tentatively identified as some kind of phlox. The flowers have a very faint
purple tint to them. |
| Lupine. |
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Common Madia. According to the Audobon Grasslands guide,
this is also called Tarweed. |
| Bindweed. |
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Nootka Rose. This accounts for quite a few of the bushes
down in our creek. |
| Poison Hemlock. Some of these bushes are about six feet
high. And they're a real nuisance to try to pull out. |
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Some sort of daisy, though I don't know precisely what. |
| Field Mustard. This is the kind that mustard greens come
from. |
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Common Mallow. |
| Whatever this one is, it lives in the damp spots only.
Marylin says "It is in the mustard family and I think it is White
Watercress - Rorippa nasturtium-aquatium - which is a European species
that has gone wild." |
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Dalmatian Toadflax. No, really. Could I make up a name like
that? |
| This one might be Common Tumblemustard, though I'm not sure
about that. |
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Slender Cinquefoil. Marylin adds "The Slender
Cinquefoil I know as the Five Fingered Cinquefoil - Potentilla breweri.
Could be two common names for the same flower." |
| Stinging Nettle. |
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Lewis' Syringa. Named after the Lewis of Lewis & Clark,
by the way. |
| Yellow Salsify. Another one of our books calls it Yellow
Goatsbeard, but it appears to be the same plant. |
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Some sort of wild geranium. Marylin's identification:
"The geranium I believe is the Sticky Pink Geranium - Geranium
viscosissimum." |
| Dunno about this one. |
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Or this one. Bev says, "how about Narrow
Goldenrod?" |
| Another mystery. We arbitrarily decided to call these "Wildflames",
but since we made that name up, it's pretty certain that it's not the
official name. Maybe some kind of poppy? Marylin's opinion: "The red
poppy is probably an escaped horticultural variety from someones garden -
just a guess." |
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White Campion. |
| Tiny Little Purple Flowers, about a quarter inch across. |
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I'm pretty sure this is St. John's Wort. |
| These might be some kind of aster, but that's really just a
guess. |
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Showy milkweed. |
| Canada thistle. Probably the most noxious weed we've got to
contend with. Next spring we're going to need to undertake some
search-and-destroy missions. |
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Mountain elderberry -- I think. |
| I don't even have a guess. It's pretty unattractive, so
maybe no one ever named it. Bev suggests "some kind of locoweed
(Showy Loco)?" |
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Dunno about this one either. I thought for a while it might
be spreading dogbane, but the leaves are wrong. Marylin's guess: "The
Dunno looks like it might be in the wild buckwheat family." |
| Common mullein. |
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And of course the humble dandelion. |
| This one is often misidentified as milkweed, but really it's
prickly lettuce. The grasshoppers love it, as does the horse. |
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Russian knapweed. The smallish purple flowers leave behind
seed heads with white ends. |
| Bull thistle. |
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Skeletonweed. One of our books says of this plant "The
unattractiveness of this plant is matched only by its undesirability." |
