I do not purport to be a flower expert; information on plant specifics is readily available on numerous other websites. My sole objective is to share some pretty photographs; if a picture happens to help someone to identify a flower, that's great. Despite exhaustive research, I might have misnamed a species or two; if so, I would sincerely appreciate a note to that effect.
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| ALPINE LILY | ||
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| Alpine Lily Sierra tiger lily |
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| ASH | ||
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| Mountain Ash California mountain ash |
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| BALSAMROOT | ||
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| California Balsamroot | ||
| BEAR GRASS | ||
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| Bear Grass | ||
| BEAUTYBERRY | ||
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| Beautyberry | ||
| BISTORT | ||
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| American Bistort western bistort |
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| BITTERROOT | ||
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| Bitterroot | ||
| BLACKBERRY | ||
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| California Blackberry | ||
| BLAZING STAR | ||
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| Blazing Star | ||
| BLEEDING HEART | ||
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| Pacific Bleeding Heart | ||
| BLOW WIVES | ||
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| Blow Wives | ||
| BLUEBELL | ||
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| Sierra Bluebell | ||
| BLUE EYED GRASS | ||
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| Blue Eyed Grass western blue eyed grass |
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| BRIDE'S BONNET | ||
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| Bride's Bonnet blue-bead lily |
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| BRODIAEA | ||
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| Prettyface golden brodiaea |
(same) | Narrow-leaved Brodiaea |
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| Blue Dick desert hyacinth, common brodiaea |
(same) | Twining Snakelily twining brodiaea |
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| Ithuriel's Spear wally basket, blue milla |
Many-flowered Brodiaea wild hyacinth |
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| California Brodiaea | White Brodiaea | |
| BUCKWHEAT | ||
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| Cushion Buckwheat | Sulfur-flower Buckwheat | Nevada Buckwheat |
| CAMAS | ||
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| Camas common camas, camas lily |
Death Camas | |
| CAT'S EAR | ||
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| Cat's Ear common cat's ear |
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| CEANOTHUS | ||
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| Fresno Ceanothus | ||
| CHECKERBLOOM | ||
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| Annual Checkerbloom checker mallow |
Checkerbloom wild hollyhock |
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| CHICORY | ||
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| Chicory | ||
| CINQUEFOIL | ||
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| Sticky Cinquefoil | Fanleaf Cinquefoil | Slender Cinquefoil |
| CLARKIA | ||
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| Red Ribbons | ||
| CLEMATIS | ||
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| Pipestem Clematis chaparral clematis |
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| CLOVER | ||
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| Foothill Clover | Rose Clover | Owl's Clover |
| COLLINSIA | ||
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| Purple Chinese Houses | ||
| COLUMBINE | ||
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| Crimson Columbine western columbine |
Yellow McKana Giant Columbine | Colorado Blue Columbine |
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| Yellow Columbine | Coville's Columbine | |
| CORN LILY | ||
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| Corn Lily | ||
| COW PARSNIP | ||
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| Cow Parsnip | ||
| DAISIES & SUNFLOWERS | ||
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| Alpine Aster | Fleabane showy daisy |
Woolly Sunflower yarrow leaved woolly sunflower |
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| Longleaf Fleabane | Wandering Fleabane wandering daisy | Sun Ray |
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| Hairy Arnica | English Daisy Fleabane | |
| DANDELION | ||
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| Dandelion | Mountain Dandelion | (same) |
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| Sierra Dandelion | ||
| DOGWOOD | ||
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| Mountain Dogwood | ||
| DRUG SNOWBELL | ||
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| Drug Snowbell Storax, California snowdrop bush |
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| DUDLEYA | ||
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| Canyon Liveforever spreading dudleya |
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| Lanceleaf Liveforever | Canyon Liveforever | |
| FAWN LILY | ||
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| Purple Fawn Lily | ||
| FIDDLENECK | ||
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| Menzie's Fiddleneck small flowered fiddleneck |
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| FIREWEED | ||
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| Fireweed | ||
| FIVE SPOT | ||
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| Five Spot | ||
| FLAX | ||
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| Flax common flax |
Pale Flax | |
| FUCHSIA | ||
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| Hummingbird Trumpet California fuchsia |
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| GENTIAN | ||
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| Sierra Fringed Gentian | Tioga Gentian | |
| GERANIUM | ||
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| Sticky Geranium | Longbeak Storksbill filaree |
Cranesbill |
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| Common Heronsbill redstem filaree |
Dovesfoot Cranesbill alum root |
Richardson's Geranium |
| GILIA | ||
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| Skyrocket scarlet gilia |
Slendertube Skyrocket scarlet gilia |
Slendertube Skyrocket scarlet gilia |
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| Clockwise Gilia Alva Day's gilia |
Blue Field Gilia bluehead gilia |
Ballhead Gilia bluehead gilia |
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| Foothill Gilia | ||
| GLOBE LILY | ||
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| White Globe Lily fairy lantern |
(same) | Golden Globe Lily fairy lantern |
| GOATSBEARD | ||
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| Western Goatsbeard yellow salsify |
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| GRAPE | ||
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| Oregon Grape | ||
| GRASS OF PARNASSUS | ||
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| Grass of Parnassus | ||
| GROUNDSEL | ||
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| Groundsel | ||
| HAREBELL | ||
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| Harebell | ||
| HEATHER | ||
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| Red Mountain Heather Brewer's mountain heather |
White Mountain Heather | White Mountain Heather |
| HOLLYHOCK | ||
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| Mountain Hollyhock | (same) | |
| HONEYSUCKLE | ||
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| Twinberry Honeysuckle | ||
| HOUND'S TONGUE | ||
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| Hound's Tongue Pacific houndstongue |
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| HUMBOLDT'S LILY | ||
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| Humboldt's Lily | ||
| HYSSOP | ||
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| Giant Hyssop horsemint |
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| INDIAN PINK | ||
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| Indian Pink scarlet campion |
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| INDIAN RHUBARB | ||
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| Indian Rhubarb umbrella plant |
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| INDIAN WARRIOR | ||
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| Indian Warrior | ||
| IRIS | ||
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| Western Blue Flag Iris Rocky Mountain iris |
Pale Yellow Iris horticultural iris |
Hartweg's Iris rainbow iris |
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| German Iris firebug |
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| KNOTWEED | ||
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| Broadleaf Knotweed | ||
| LABRADOR TEA | ||
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| Labrador Tea trapper's tea, western labrador tea |
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| LARKSPUR | ||
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| Larkspur | Foothill Larkspur pale western larkspur |
Meadow Larkspur |
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| Anderson Larkspur | Pine Forest Larkspur | |
| LAUREL | ||
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| Mountain Laurel bog laurel |
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| LOTUS | ||
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| Bird's Foot Lotus birdsfoot trefoil |
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| LOUSEWORT | ||
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| Elephant Heads elephanthead lousewort |
(same) | Little Elephant Heads attol lousewort |
| LUPINE | ||
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| Yellow Lupine | Lupine | Butter Lupine |
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| Harlequin Lupine | ||
| MANZANITA | ||
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| Manzanita | ||
| MARIPOSA LILY | ||
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| Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily | Yellow Mariposa Lily gold nuggets |
Sierra Mariposa Lily |
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| Bruneau Mariposa Lily | ||
| MEADOWFOAM | ||
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| White Meadowfoam | ||
| MILKWEED | ||
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| Heartleaf Milkweed | Bloodflower scarlet milkweed |
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| Narrowleaf Milkweed | ||
| MINER'S LETTUCE | ||
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| Miner's Lettuce | Red Stemmed Miner's Lettuce | |
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| Miner's Lettuce | Red Stemmed Miner's Lettuce | |
| MONARDELLA | ||
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| Mountain Monardella Pacific monardella, desert mint |
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| MONKEYFLOWER | ||
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| Primrose Monkeyflower | Kellogg's Monkeyflower | Common Monkeyflower |
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| Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis's monkeyflower |
Two-lipped Bush Monkeyflower | Notch-petaled Monkeyflower |
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| Larger Mountain Monkeyflower | Layne's Monkeyflower | |
| MORNING GLORY | ||
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| Western Morning Glory | Bodega Morning Glory | |
| MOUNTAIN MISERY | ||
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| Mountain Misery bearclover |
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| MULBERRY | ||
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| Mulberry | ||
| MULE EARS | ||
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| Mule Ears | ||
| MULLEIN | ||
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| Mullein | ||
| MUSTARD | ||
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| Field Mustard | ||
| NIGHTSHADE | ||
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| Blue Witch Nightshade | ||
| ONION | ||
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| Bolander's Onion | (same) | Pacific Mountain Onion |
| PAINTBRUSH | ||
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| Paintbrush | Lemmon's Paintbrush | Paintbrush |
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| Wavyleaf Paintbrush | Paintbrush | Eastwood's Paintbrush |
| PARSNIP | ||
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| Bladder Parsnip | ||
| PASQUEFLOWER | ||
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| Mountain Pasqueflower | ||
| PEARLY EVERLASTING | ||
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| Pearly Everlasting | ||
| PENSTEMON | ||
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| Mountain Pride Newberry's penstemon |
Sierra Penstemon Rydberg's penstemon |
Sierra Beardtongue |
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| Azure Penstemon | Mountain Pride | Davidson's Penstemon Davidson's beardtongue |
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| Utah Penstemon | ||
| PERIWINKLE | ||
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| Periwinkle | Madagascar Periwinkle | |
| PHACELIA | ||
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| Varileaf Phacelia | Quick's Phacelia | Caterpillar Phacelia |
| PHLOX | ||
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| Spreading Phlox | Prickly Phlox granite gilia |
Mountain Phlox |
| PINCUSHION | ||
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| Desert Pincushion Fremont pincushion |
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| PINEDROPS | ||
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| Pinedrops | ||
| PLANTAIN | ||
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| Ribwort Plantain | ||
| POLEMONIUM | ||
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| California Polemonium sky pilot |
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| POPPY | ||
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| California Poppy | (same) | Prickly Poppy |
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| Tufted Poppy | California Poppy | |
| PUSSY PAWS | ||
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| Pussy Paws | ||
| RABBITBRUSH | ||
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| Rabbitbrush | ||
| RADISH | ||
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| Wild Radish | ||
| RAGWORT | ||
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| Ragwort California Ragwort |
Shrubby Butterweed | Shrubby Butterweed |
| RANGER'S BUTTON | ||
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| Ranger's Button woolyhead parsnip, swamp whitehead |
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| RED MAIDS | ||
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| Red Maids desert rockpurselane |
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| ROCK FRINGE | ||
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| Rock Fringe | ||
| ROSE | ||
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| Wild Rose | ||
| SANDWORT | ||
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| King's Smooth Sandwort | ||
| SCARLET PIMPERNEL | ||
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| Scarlet Pimpernel | ||
| SCOTCH BROOM | ||
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| Scotch Broom Broom |
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| SEDGE | ||
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| Sedge | ||
| SHOOTING STAR | ||
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| Sierra shooting star | Darkthroated shooting star | Alpine shooting star |
| SIERRA PRIMROSE | ||
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| Sierra Primrose | ||
| SNOWBERRY | ||
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| Mountain Snowberry | ||
| SNOWPLANT | ||
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| Snowplant// | ||
| SORREL | ||
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| Mountain Sorrel | ||
| SPICEBUSH | ||
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| Spicebush sweet shrub |
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| SPIREA | ||
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| Meadow Sweet rose spirea |
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| SPRING BEAUTY | ||
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| Sierra Spring Beauty | Streamside Spring Beauty | |
| STAR TULIP | ||
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| Yellow Star Tulip | ||
| STARWORT | ||
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| Meadow Starwort | Sticky Starwort | Sticky Starwort |
| STONECROP | ||
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| Sierra Stonecrop | Pacific Stonecrop | Lanceleaf Stonecrop |
| STRAWBERRY | ||
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| Wild Strawberry | ||
| SWEETPEA | ||
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| Perennial Sweetpea | ||
| TEASEL | ||
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| Wild Teasel Fuller's teasel |
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| THIMBLEBERRY | ||
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| Thimbleberry western thimbleberry |
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| THISTLE | ||
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| Anderson's Thistle | Graygreen Thistle | Snowy Thistle |
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| Italian Thistle | Milk Thistle | Snowy Thistle |
| TIGER LILY | ||
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| Tiger Lily Kelly's tiger lily |
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| TREE TOBACCO | ||
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| Tree Tobacco | ||
| VETCH | ||
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| Winter Vetch | Spring Vetch | Hairy Vetch |
| VIOLET | ||
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| Goosefoot Yellow Violet | Yellow Violet | |
| WATER LILY | ||
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| Water Lily | ||
| WESTERN WALLFLOWER | ||
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| Western Wallflower Sierra wallflower |
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| WILLOW | ||
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| Alpine Willow | Yellow Willow | Yellow Willow |
| YAMPAH | ||
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| Yampah Parish's yampah |
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| YARROW | ||
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| Yarrow | ||
| YERBA SANTA | ||
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| Yerba Santa | ||
| UNIDENTIFIED | ||
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| Washoe Lake SP, Nevada | Uinta Mountains, Utah | Monticello, Virginia |
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| Cache Creek Natural Area | Eldorado NF | Glacier NP, Montana |
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| Glacier NP, Montana | Monticello, Virginia | Mount Tamalpais SP |
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| Toiyabe NF | ||
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