Plant of the Week
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Plant of the Week: Rose Pogonia
A tall herbaceous perennial forb, native to North America, western polemonium is distributed from British Columbia to Colorado to California. Read more about rose pogonia…
Plant of the Week: Western Polemonium
A tall herbaceous perennial forb, native to North America, western polemonium is distributed from British Columbia to Colorado to California. Read more about western polemonium…
Plant of the Week: Wyoming Townsend Daisy
Amidst landscapes of rocky slopes, talus, and fell fields, there is a conspicuous purple sunflower no taller than six inches with bright violet to purple ray flowers. Read more about Wyoming Townsend…
Plant of the Week: Common Sunflower
Common Sunflower is an open land species, generally on moist soils, of prairies and other grasslands, old fields, roadsides, railroad rights-of-way, savannas, and forest edge. Read more about common sunflower…
Plant of the Week: Common Yellow Wood Sorrel
Common yellow wood sorrel grows in a variety of habitats from open forest to fields and gardens. Read more about yellow wood sorrel…
Plant of the Week: Staghorn Sumac
Staghorn sumac is an open land species of prairies, grasslands, old fields, roadsides, savannas and woodlands, and fencerows. Read more about staghorn sumac…
Plant of the Week: Jupiter Buttercup
Jupiter buttercup grows mostly in high mountain meadows, maple thickets, or sagebrush communities. Flowers are frequently seen in moist areas below melting snowbanks. Read more about this plant…
Plant of the Week: Ozark Green Trillium
Ozark green trillium occurs in large numbers in heavy alkaline and heavy riverine soils in the Ozark and Ouachita mountain regions in Arkansas Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Read more about this plant…
Plant of the Week: Wild Hydrangea
Wild hydrangea is usually found in mesic forest, often along streams or in rocky areas, but also grows in drier areas. Read more about this plant…
Plant of the Week: Striped Coralroot
Striped coralroot orchid is a mycotrophic, herbaceous, perennial wildflower with a broad distribution in the western United States and Canada. Read more about this plant…
Plant of the Week: White Swamp Milkweed
White swamp milkweed occurs along the Mississippi River in Illinois and south to the Gulf, extending over to Florida. Read more about this plant…
Plant of the Week: Salmonberry
Salmonberry is quite similar to a raspberry in size and shape, except its fruit is yellow, orange, or red. Read more about this plant…
Enjoy Your Wildflowers
Thousands of wildflowers grow on our national forests and grasslands, in many shapes, sizes, and colors. A field of wildflowers or colorful plants upon a lush forest floor is a beautiful sight, but so is a single flower or scattered plants growing upon what at first glance may appear to be a dry and desolate landscape.
Celebrating Wildflowers periodically features a different wildflower plant found on our national forests and grasslands.
The Plant of the Week descriptions are organized alphabetically by genus and species.
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Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Indian Ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides)
Sweet Flag (Acorus americanus)
Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
Threadleaf giant hyssop (Agastache rupestris)
Parry’s Agave (Agave parryi)
Smallflower Century Plant (Agave parviflora)
Orange Mountain Dandelion (Agoseris aurantiaca)
Brandegee’s Onion (Allium brandegeei)
Sugarstick (Allotropa virgata)
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
Sweetflower Rock Jasmine (Androsace chamaejasme ssp. carinata)
Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis)
Rosy Pussytoes (Antennaria rosea)
Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
Colorado Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea)
Red or Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Golden Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha)
Yellow Columbine (Aquilegia flavescens)
Utah Columbine (Aquilegia scopulorum)
Lodgepole Pine Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum)
Southwestern prickly poppy (Argemone pleiacantha)
Jack-in-The-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Northern Wormwood (Artemisia campestris ssp. borealis)
White Sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana)
Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
Goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus)
Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Oval-leaved Milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia)
White Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias perennis)
Purple Milkweed (Asclepias purpurascens)
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Wheel Milkweed (Asclepias uncialis)
Redring Milkweed (Asclepias variegata)
Green Comet Milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora)
Green Antelopehorn (Asclepias viridis)
American Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum)
Alpine Milkvetch (Astragalus alpinus)
Scarlet Milkvetch (Astragalus coccineus)
Schultz’s Milk-vetch (Astragalus molybdenus var. schultziorum)
Ferron's Milkvetch (Astragalus musiniensis)
Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
Fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens)
Fern-leaved False Foxglove (Aureolaria pedicularia var. intercedens)
Pacific Mosquitofern (Azolla filiculoides)