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Category: Asterales

Ericameria bloomeri 

August 7, 2023 Dan Nelson 5 Comments

I got really lucky identifying these beautiful members of the family Asteraceae ( which carry the common names rabbitbrush goldenweed,…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Ericameria, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Ericameria bloomeri

Senecio vulgaris

February 2, 2023 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

In honor of today being Imbolc, an ancient Gaelic holiday celebrating the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Eudicots, Plants, Senecio, Species Profiles Filed under: common groundsel, Old man in the spring, Senicio vulgaris

Campanula scouleri (Scouler’s Harebell)

August 22, 2022 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I almost missed this plant on the trip to McBride Lake. I was apparently tunnel visioned when I passed it…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Campanula, Campanulaceae, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Campanula scouleri, Scouler's Harebell

Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)

August 30, 2021 Dan Nelson 1 Comment

In our region this wonderful, circumboreal member of the family Asteraceae is composed of both native and exotic strains. This…

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Posted in: Achillea, Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Achillea millefolium, Yarrow

Eriophyllum lanatum (Oregon Sunshine)

August 3, 2021 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I have heard people refer to this member of the family Asteraceae as wooly sunflowers, but that is more properly…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Eriophyllum, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Eriophyllum lanatum, Oregon Sunshine

Campanula rotundifolia

August 1, 2021 Dan Nelson 1 Comment

These wonderful plants in the family Campanulaceae (bellflowers), which are native throughout the northern Northern Hemisphere, have many common names…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asterales, Campanula, Campanulaceae, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles

Senecio triangularis (Arrowleaf Groundsel)

June 23, 2021 Dan Nelson 1 Comment

I have a confession to make. Not only am I not good with the members of Asteraceae, I often don’t…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Eudicots, Plants, Senecio, Species Profiles Filed under: Senecio triangularis (Arrowleaf Groundsel)

Balsamorhiza careyana/careyana x deltoidea

April 16, 2021 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

I do not know for sure what these plants are, and it would take a DNA analysis to be certain.…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Balsamorhiza, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Balsamorhiza careyana, Balsamorhiza careyana x deltoidea

Cirsium cymosum var. canovirens

February 19, 2021 Dan Nelson 10 Comments

When many of us think of thistles we do so with less than charitable thoughts, because most of the thistles…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Cirsium, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Cirsium cymosum var. canovirens, Grey Green Thistle

Bidens cernua (Nodding Beggarticks)

September 21, 2020 Dan Nelson 5 Comments

This is a common wetlands plant, which blooms from late summer into fall. It is erect, up to 40” tall,…

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Posted in: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Asteraceae (Sunflowers), Asterales, Eudicots, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Bidens cernua, Nodding Beggarticks

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