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Twin Flower
Dyschoriste oblongifolia

Trumpet-shaped lavendar flowers bloom in paired leaf axils. Stems and leaf edges hairy. Flowers: 5-lobed,1 1/2" (4 cm) wide; dark purple spots on lowermost lobe. Leaves: opposite, oval, attached directly to stems. Height: 12" (30 cm). ...… read more

American Water-willow
Justicia americana

An aquatic with bicolored flowers in dense, head-like or spike-like clusters on long slender stalks rising from leaf axils. Flowers: To 1/2" (1.5 cm) long; calyx shorter than corolla; lower corolla lip 3-lobed, white, spotted with purple; upper ...… read more

Chuparosa
Justicia californica (Beloperone californica)

Numerous tubular dull-red flowers bloom on this mostly leafless, densely branched, grayish-green shrub. Flowers: corolla 1-1 1/2" (2.5-3.8 cm) long, deeply cleft into a 2-lobed upper lip and a 3-lobed lower lip. Leaves: about 1/2" (1.3 cm) long, ...… read more

Carolina Wild Petunia
Ruellia caroliniensis

Violet, trumpet-shaped flowers on short hairy stems from leaf axils. Flowers: To 2" (5 cm) long; calyx with 5 long, thread-like lobes to 1/16" (1 mm) wide, pair of leaf-like bracts below each flower. Leaves: To 2" (5 cm) long, opposite, ...… read more

Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis

Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia's multi-branched stem may reach a height of 2 ft. but is usually less than a foot tall. The perennial's short internodes give the plant a compact, leafy, bushy appearance. Its showy flowers are petunia shaped and vary in color ...… read more

Violet Wild Petunia
Ruellia nudiflora

Violet Wild Petunia is a semi-sprawling perennial, up to 28 in. high, from a somewhat woody base. Flowers are lavender to purple, trumpet-shaped, deeply lobed at the flared rim, and open about sunrise, falling from plant in early afternoon. Gray-green ...… read more

Shaggytuft
Stenandrium barbatum

A dwarf, tufted, grayish plant with short spikes of rose-pink flowers nestled among leaves. Flowers: Corolla about 1/2"(1.5 cm) wide, with 5 lobes flaring from a narrow tube, upper 2 lobes slightly darker than lower 3. Leaves: To 1 1/2" (4 cm) ...… read more

Sea Fig
Carpobrotus chilensis

A mat-forming plant with trailing, rooting stems, bearing large, deep reddish-lavender flowers nestled among erect, narrow, succulent leaves. Flowers: 1 1/2-2 1/2" (4-6.5 cm) wide; sepals of varying lengths, larger ones leaf-like; petals numerous, ...… read more

Hottentot Fig
Carpobrotus edulis

Introduced. Long, trailing, rooting stems with pink or yellow flowers among slender, erect, succulent leaves. Flowers: 3-4" (8-10 cm) wide; sepals of varying lengths, larger ones similar to leaves; petals numerous, very narrow. Leaves: 2 1/2-4" (6-10 cm) ...… read more

Crystalline Ice Plant
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

Introduced. A succulent plant with branched, reclining stems covered with tiny, glistening beads; white or reddish flowers in upper leaf axils. Flowers: 1" (2.5 cm) wide; petals many, each 1/4-3/8" (6-9 mm) long, narrow; stamens many. Leaves: ...… read more

Sea Purslane
Sesuvium portulacastrum

Mat-forming, sprawling, profusely branched, fleshy seaside plant. Flowers: 3/4" (2 cm), star-like, with 5 pointed, petal-like sepals; bright pink inside, green outside; arise on stalks from leaf axils. Leaves: to 1" (2.5 cm) ...… read more

Western Sea Purslane
Sesuvium verrucosum

A succulent, grayish-green plant with branched, prostrate or ascending stems bearing star-like, pink flowers in upper leaf axils. Flowers: About 3/8" (1 cm) wide; sepals 5, green on outside, pink on inside, joined to form a bell-shaped base, with ...… read more

Alligatorweed
Alternanthera philoxeroides

Introduced. A usually aquatic plant that forms mats and is considered a noxious weed in the United States. Flowers: globe-shaped, terminal flower heads, 1/2" (1.5 cm) diameter; white; papery. Leaves: opposite...… read more

Pigweed
Amaranthus retroflexus

A rough hairy stem with clusters of tiny, greenish flowers. Flowers: In terminal panicles to 2 1/2"(6.5 cm) long and in clusters in leaf axils; flowers intermingled with elongated, bristle-like bracts. Leaves: 3-6" (7.5-15 cm) long, oval to ...… read more

Thorny Pigweed
Amaranthus spinosus

Tiny, yellow-green flowers on a stout, much-branched, sometimes reddish stem. Flowers: Male flowers mostly in slender, terminal spikes to 6" (15 cm) long; female flowers mostly in dense, round clusters; flowers intermingled with bristly bracts as ...… read more

Bishop's Goutweed
Aegopodium podagraria

Introduced. A Eurasian perennial with green-and-white leaves, usually divided in 3s, that is cultivated as a ground cover. Flowers: delicate, flat-topped flower clusters similar to Queen Anne's Lace but less conspicuous...… read more

Seaside Angelica
Angelica hendersonii

Flowers: tiny, white, 5-petaled, in small, ball-like clusters, grouped to form rounded 3 1/2" (9 cm) clusters. Bloom June–July. Coarse, stout, succulent, single stem. Leaves: pinnately divided 2–3 times into rounded, toothed leaflets, woolly below. ...… read more

Water Hemlock
Cicuta maculata (Cicuta mexicana)

Smooth, erect, highly branched plant bearing dome- shaped, loose clusters of small white flowers. The sturdy stem is magenta-streaked. Flowers: florets about 1/6" (4 mm) long; no bracts beneath flattened umbels, 3" (7.5 cm) wide. Leaves: lower ...… read more

Poison Hemlock
Conium maculatum

Introduced. A tall, usually much-branched, imposing plant with purple-spotted stems, compound leaves, and small compound umbels of white flowers. Flowers: 1/16" (2 mm) long; sepals absent; petals 5; compound umbel 1 1/2-2" (4-5 cm) wide ...… read more

Honewort
Cryptotaenia canadensis

Small, uneven compound umbels of tiny white flowers on stalks of unequal length. Flowers: About 1/8" (3 mm) wide, lacking visible sepals. Leaves: 3-6" (7.5-15 cm) long, palmately divided into 3 toothed, often deeply lobed leaflets. Fruit: ...… read more

Queen Anne's Lace
Daucus carota

Introduced. A few large, flat-topped lacy umbels with tiny white flowers, hairy on top, sometimes nearly smooth, with one dark reddish-brown, purple or pink floret usually at center of umbel; lacy-leafed stem. Flowers: compound umbels 3-6" ...… read more

Mexican Thistle
Eryngium heterophyllum

Prickly white bracts surrounding tiny, pale blue flowers in dome-like heads atop a thistle-like plant. Flowers: Head about 1/4-1/2"(7-15 mm) high, 1/4-3/8" (5-10 mm) wide, spiny; surrounded by 8-14 rigid, spiny, narrowly lance-shaped, white bracts, ...… read more

Leavenworth's Eryngo
Eryngium leavenworthii

Leavenworth's Eryngo is a prickly, 20-40 in. annual with a leafy stem, broadly branched in the upper portion. Almost the entire plant has some shade of purple. Flowers are minute, purple, and mingled with small, spiny bracts in an elongated, terminal, ...… read more

Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium

Smooth, rigid stem bearing thistle-like flower heads made up of small greenish-white florets mingled with pointed bracts. Flowers: head 3/4" (2 cm) wide, slightly ovoid, surrounded by larger pointed bracts. Leaves: to 3' (90 cm) long, linear, ...… read more

Sweet Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare

Introduced. A tall plant with feathery leaves, and on the upper branches tiny yellow flowers in compound umbels. Flowers: umbels 2-7" (5-17.5 cm) wide; each flower with 5 petals, no sepals. Leaves: to 12-16" (30-40 cm) long, triangular ...… read more

Beach Silvertop
Glehnia littoralis ssp. leiocarpa

A low spreading plant with rosettes of pinnate leaves lying on sand; small, tight, round, short-stemmed umbels rising from center and bearing numerous tiny white flowers. Flowers: Umbel 3-4" (7.5-10 cm) wide, with few stout woolly branches; ...… read more

Giant Hogweed
Heracleum mantegazzianum

Introduced; noxious weed. A tree-size herbaceous plant with giant white, umbrella-shaped flower clusters; very large, lobed leaves; and hollow, hairy stems up to 4" (10 cm) in diameter. Flowers: umbels to 30" (75 cm) wide...… read more

Cow Parsnip
Heracleum maximum (Heracleum lanatum)

This very tall plant has huge leaves and flat umbels of numerous tiny white flowers; stem is grooved, woolly, hollow, and stout. Flowers: umbel to 12" (30 cm) wide, often in groups; each flower with 5 petals, those at margin of umbel larger, about ...… read more

Water-pennywort
Hydrocotyle americana

A creeping or weakly erect marsh plant with small clusters of tiny, greenish-white flowers rising from leaf axils. Flowers: About 1/16" (2 mm) wide, 5-petaled; in clusters of 1-5. Leaves: 1/2-1 3/4" (1.5-4.5 cm) wide, simple, roundish, doubly ...… read more

Fernleaf Desert-parsley
Lomatium dissectum

A lacy bush of the carrot family with a long, thick taproot and clusters of flower heads branching from tops of stems. Stems often purple. Flowers: minute, dark purple-brown (sometimes yellow) flowers in dense ...… read more

Narrowleaf Desert-parsley
Lomatium triternatum

A softly hairy, leafy plant of the carrot family with round, open clusters of yellow flowers. Flowers: minute yellow flowers in flat-topped, 3" clusters. Leaves: hairy, at least twice-compound in 3s and 5s; leaflets linear to ...… read more

Spring Gold
Lomatium utriculatum

Little spheres of tiny, bright yellow flowers in umbels above finely divided, carrot-like leaves. Flowers: Umbel in flower about 2-4" (5-10 cm) wide, with 5-20 main branches of unequal lengths; umbel in fruit to 10" (25 cm) wide. Leaves: Blade ...… read more

Water Parsley
Oenanthe sarmentosa

A sprawling plant with lacy, round flower clusters and divided leaves. The succulent stems are weak, usually reclining, and will root where they touch soil. Flowers: tiny, white, 5-petaled, in round 2-4" (5-10 cm) clusters. Leaves: to ...… read more

Sweet Cicely
Osmorhiza claytonii

A hairy plant with small sparse compound umbels of white flowers. Flowers: Less than 1/16" (2 mm) wide, 5-petaled. Leaves: Fern-like, divided into blunt-toothed or lobed leaflets, each 1/2-3 1/2" (1.5-9 cm) long. Fruit: Tapered, blackish, ...… read more

Wild Parsnip
Pastinaca sativa

Introduced, weedy plant of the carrot family with ridged stems bearing umbels of yellow flowers. Flowers: tiny yellow flowers in flat, broad clusters. Leaves: pinnately compound, with 5–15 ovate, toothed or lobed leaflets. Height: 5' (1.5 m).… read more

Yampah
Perideridia gairdneri

Slender, dill-like, fragrant. Stems single. Flowers: minute white flowers in flat to concave clusters. Leaves: compound, with extremely narrow, soft, linear, 5" (12.5 cm) leaflets all along stem, withering early. ...… read more

Black Snakeroot
Sanicula canadensis

Inconspicuous, greenish flowers in small, uneven compound umbels on stalks of unequal length. Flowers: Sepals 5, each 1/16" (2 mm) long, narrow, lanceolate, extending beyond 5 tiny white petals; leafy bracts beneath compound umbel. Leaves: ...… read more

Water Parsnip
Sium suave

Fragrant, sometimes aquatic plant with flat clusters of tiny dull-white flowers and strongly ridged stems. Flowers: in clusters (compound umbels) 2-3" (5-7.5 cm) wide, with narrow, leaf-like bracts below umbels. Leaves: 4-10" (10-25 cm) long, ...… read more

Ranger's Button
Sphenosciadium capitellatum

A stout tall plant with numerous tiny white flowers in compact, separate, white "buttons" at ends of hairy branches. Flowers: Umbel to 4" (10 cm) wide; sepals absent; petals 5. Leaves: 4-16" (10-40 cm) long, broad, pinnately divided, lower ...… read more

Meadow Zizia
Zizia aptera

A cluster of several leafy stems bearing bright yellow flowers in compound umbels. Flowers: Umbel to 2 1/2" (6.5 cm) wide; sepals and petals 5 each. Leaves: Basal leaves 1-4" (2.5-10 cm) long, long-stalked...… read more

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