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Northern Geranium
Geranium
erianthum
Perennial. Woody stems
base, leafy and hairy
to 80cm tall. Leaves are palmately deeply
divided into irregularly lobed and toothed
segments.Flowers, blue to pink-purple in loose
clusters.Found at roadsides and in meadows
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Self Heal
Prunella
vulgaris
Perennial. Stems erect to
spreading or reclining,
leafy and square in cross section. Leaves,
opposite and few. Flowers are purplish to pink,
two lipped tube, upper lip hooded bonnet like.
Moist roadsides and fields.
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Harvest Brodiaea
Brodiaea
coronaria
Perennial to 30cm high.
Leaves are grass like
dying off before the flower appears. Flowers are
violet blue in loose clusters on single stem.
Open gravel sites and coastal rocky areas.
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American Brooklime
Veronica
americana
Perennial. Succulent stems
trailing, erect or
ascending. Leaves, 3-5 pairs on flowering
stems, lance shaped. Blue, violet, lilac flowers
in long clusters along the stem. Wet ground or
in shallow water.
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Small Flowered Lupine
Lupinus
polycarpos
Annual.Erect stems 10-45cm
tall. Leaves,
palmately compound, 5-8 leaflets 4cm long.
Blue flowers, pea like, small in short clusters.
Open, gravelly and sandy sites at low elevations.
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Alfalfa
Medicago
sativa
Perennial. Stems to
50cm long. Introduced
Eurasian weed. Leaves are compound, three
foliate, leaflets. Flowers are purple, 6-10mm
similar
to Black Medic but larger. Disturbed sites,
cultivated fields are typical habitats.
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Silky Phacelia
Phacelia
sericea
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Small Flowered Penstemon
Penstemon
procerus
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Small Blue-eyed
Mary
Collinsia
parviflora
Annual. Leafy stem
usually erect or ascending,
sometimes sprawling. Leaves 1-4cm long, bract
like in the inflorescence. Flowers blue with some white,
2 lobed. Mossy outcroppings, gravelly flats.
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Great Camas
Camassia
leichinii
Perennial herb to 70cm
tall. Leaves are fleshy.
Blue to deep blue flowers, many to each spike.
The tepals of the Great Camas, twist together to
cover the fruit. Enjoys grassy meadows.
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Menzies Larkspur
Delphinium
menziesii
Perennial to 50cm.
Tall. Single stems weakly
attached to tubers. Leaves rounded in outline
but deeply divided. Deep blue to purplish
flowers 3 to 20 in open terminal clusters.
Grassy meadows and rocky bluffs.
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Pacific Waterleaf
Hydrophyllum
tenuipes
Perennial leafy herb with
solitary stems to 80cm tall.
Leaves are alternate, long and wide divided usually
up to five times.Flowers. Greenish-white to a lavender
color, bell shaped in terminal clusters.
Moist open forests at low to middle elevations.
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Chicory
Cichorium
intybus
Perennial herb with milky
juice, branched, leafy
and 30-150cm tall. Leaves alternate, lower
leaves stalked, lance shaped, deeply toothed
. Blue flowers upped 4cm wide.
Roadsides, fields, waste areas, usually dry.
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Cow Vetch
Vicia
cracca
Perennial trailing or
climbing. Stems to 2m
long.Leaves compound with terminal branched
tendrils. Leaflets 16 –24.Flowers, blue to
reddish purple,pea like, 20-50 flowers.
Thickets and open forests.
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