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The flowers have 5 petals, each split, appearing to be 10.
Perennial plant 7 to 12" tall with flowers are large, yellow, daisy-type.
Flowers have 5 rounded, white sepals and blooms as soon as the snow leaves
A delicate, upright plant, 4 to 7", with small 5-petaled flowers.
This orchid's blooms are well past prime, but I uploaded it to illustrate how ...
A low, mat-forming plant with very narrow, small leaves. The flowers are ...
Small alpine plant (2"-4") with small, oblong leaves and flowers that are ...
This may be a prickly Saxifrage, but I'm not sure. I know it is a saxifrage, ...
Plant is 6"-8" tall with small, 5-lobed, slightly hairy basal leaves. Flowers ...
A trailing shrub with small, rounded, light-green, evergreen leaves. The 3"-4" ...
A shrub of 1.5'-3' tallwith reddish-brown stems that have shedding bark. The ...
A low mat-forming evergreen shrub with clusters of tiny, light-pink 5-petaled ...
Evergreen shrub with long, green, oblong leaves. Flowers are small with 5 ...
Growing to 4 to 8" in height, it is a strongly-branched dwarf shrub. The leaves ...
a prickly shrub, 1.5' to 6 ' tall, flowers have 5 pink petals, leaves turn ...
This perennial plant grows 10 to 16" tall. The palmate leaves consist of ...
These flowers smell like lilacs. The flower stalk grows 6 to 10" high and has ...
This plant has many stems, 18-30" tall, with hairy, dark-green leaves. The ...
The plant grows 8 to14" tall and has 3 to 5-lobed, hairy leaves on long stems. ...
This plant is short and woolly when in bud. It grows up to 10" tall, can have ...
Daisy-like flower with yellow petals surrounding a dark red center. Petals are ...
Common widespread sulphur - hindwing almost always has a double cell-spot. ...
This is one of our rather common and often overlooked native orchids. You can ...
This is one of our rather common and often overlooked native orchids. Small ...
A low, evergreen shrub with 3"-8" upright branches with many shiny, hard, oval ...
A mat-forming shrub with course, oblong leaves. The flowers usually have 8 ...
A low herbaceous shrub. What looks like the flower are actually leaves. The ...
Medium-sized grasshopper, generally non-descript, but usually with "leopard ...
Another small, non-descript spur-throated grasshopper, as most members of the ...
Large, noisy jay, mostly black, with very long tail and dark, stout bill. Wings ...