Plant of the Week
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Plant of the Week: Virginia Dwarf Trillium
This beautiful spring wildflower is typically seen from in early spring, March, to early summer, June or July.
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Plant of the Week: Tuberous Grass Pink
This gorgeous wildflower is called grass pink and it is in the Orchid family (Orchidaceae). The genus name “Calopogon” is Greek and means “beautiful beard”...
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Plant of the Week: Pacific Bleeding-Heart
Pacific bleeding-heart (Dicentra formosa) is a lush perennial herb rising up to 1.5 feet from stout elongate rhizomes...
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Plant of the Week: Carolina Crownbeard
Carolina crownbeard is a coarse, perennial herb in the aster family (Asteraceae)...
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Plant of the Week: Meadow Pussytoes
Meadow pussytoes (Antennaria arcuata) is a perennial whitish-woolly herbaceous forb usually associated with sub-irrigated meadows...
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Plant of the Week: Colic Root
Colic root is an attractive member of the Narthecium family (Nartheciaceae), although it formerly belonged...
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Plant of the Week: White Water Crowfoot
Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffuses, white water crowfoot, is found throughout North American, ...
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Plant of the Week: Stemless Goldenweed
A brilliant yellow and smaller member of the Sunflower family (Asteraceae), stemless goldenweed...
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Plant of the Week: Mountain Bog Gentian
Also known as Rainier pleated gentian or Explorer’s gentian, mountain bog gentian (Gentiana calycosa) is a native mountain perennial... ”
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Plant of the Week: Rainbow Wakerobin
Flowers from early to mid-spring, depending on elevation.
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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.