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threadstalk milkvetch, basalt milkvetch (Astragalus filipes)
Astragalus filipes
Common Names threadstalk milkvetch, basalt milkvetch
Family Legume or Pea
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed Yes
black mustard (Brassica nigra)Brassica nigra
Common Names black mustard
Family Mustard
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Introduced Yes
Weed Yes
yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)Centaurea solstitialis
Common Names yellow starthistle
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native No
Weed Yes
rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea)
Chondrilla juncea
Common Names rush skeletonweed
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Introduced Yes
Weed Yes
cleomella (Cleomella macbrideana)Cleomella macbrideana
Common Names Cleomella
Family Caper
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Short Description The cleomella pictured here was found on very poor, bare clay soil in the Succor Creek watershed.
Native Yes
Low hawksbeard, modoc hawksbeard(Crepis modocensis)Crepis modocensis
Common Names low hawksbeard, modoc hawksbeard
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Flixweed (Descurainia sophia)
Descurainia sophia
Common Names flixweed
Family Mustard
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Weed Noxious
sulfur-flowered buckwheat, sulfur buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)
Eriogonum umbellatum
Common Names sulfur-flowered buckwheat, sulfur buckwheat
Family Buckwheat
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Glacier Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Erythronium grandiflorum
Common Names glacier lily
Family Lily
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)Euphorbia esula
Common Names leafy spurge
Family Spurge
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Introduced Yes
Weed Yes
Yellowbell (Fritillaria pudica)Fritillaria pudica
Common Names yellowbell
Family Lily
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
Yellow Flag (Iris pseudacorus)Iris pseudacorus
Common Names yellow flag
Family Iris
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Short Description Introduced plant, conspicuous along edges of ponds, irrigation canals.
Native No
Weed Can be
cous biscuit-root, cous-root desert-parsley (Lomatium cous)
Lomatium cous
Common Names cous biscuit-root, cous-root desert-parsley
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Gray's lomatium, Gray's desert parsley (Lomatium grayi)
Lomatium grayi
Common Names Gray's lomatium, Gray's desert parsley
Family Parsley
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
whitestem blazingstar (Mentzelia albicaulis)Mentzelia albicaulis
Common Names whitestem blazingstar
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Diverse-leafed Cinquefoil (Potentillia diversifolia)Potentillia diversifolia
Common Names diverse-leafed cinquefoil
Family Rose
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Native Yes
Weed No
annual sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)Sonchus oleraceus
Common Names annual sowthistle
Family Composites, Sunflower
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Weed Yes
Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris L.)Tribulus terrestris L.
Common Names puncturevine, goathead, Mexican sandbur, Texas sandbur, tackweed
Flower Color Yellow
Plant Type Forb
Introduced Yes

For additional information please send an e-mail request to:
Dr. Clinton C. Shock
Clinton.Shock@oregonstate.edu

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Ontario, OR 97914
(541) 889-2174
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