seanmichaelfinn's Identifications

Several smooth stems with large, ovate, long-stalked leaves mostly near base and loose clusters of purple or blue flowers on branches at top (held on a petiole). The inflorescence is a panicle of flowers on individual pedicels.

Fun facts:
• Native Americans made a preparation of the roots to treat burns and stomach aches.
• Likes dry, shaded areas
• Seeds stick to socks as you walk by

Anthocyanins; basal leaves, weak stems, prostrate to ascending flower stalks; lightly covered with soft to shaggy hair; leaves heart-shaped shallow lobes with toothed margins.

Fun facts:
• One of first flowers to bloom in late winter

Several smooth stems with large, ovate, long-stalked leaves mostly near base and loose clusters of purple or blue flowers on branches at top (held on a petiole). The inflorescence is a panicle of flowers on individual pedicels.

Fun facts:
• Native Americans made a preparation of the roots to treat burns and stomach aches.
• Likes dry, shaded areas
• Seeds stick to socks as you walk by

Leaves alternate, simple, deciduous; generally elliptical or oblong, 2–5 inches; 5-petaled flowers are white or whitish-green, pendulous. The twig is slender, green turning to reddish brown, pith chambered, conspicuous orange lenticles.

Fun facts:
• Indigenous peoples make tea of the bark, and chew its twigs to use as a mild anesthetic and aphrodisiac.
• Good wood for arrows, bows, small wooden tools
• Edible berries
• only species in the genus Oemeria
• Flowers smell like cat pee

Pale brown lenticels; palmate leaves with 5 lobes; flowers on dangling racemes

Fun facts:
• "sanguineum" means blood-red
• Drought-tolerant
• Blooms in early spring
• Tart berries but can be suitable for jam, etc.
• Can host white pine blister rust
• Hardy to -4F