Plant of the Week
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Plant of the Week: Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid
This perennial fringed wildflower was once abundant across the tall grass prairies of the Midwest. Read more…
Plant of the Week: Hoary Puccoon
The Hoary Puccoon is one of the first wildflowers to bloom in open habitats like prairies, glades, savannas, and woodlands. Read more…
Plant of the Week: American Black Elderberry
American black elderberry is usually found in moist, edge habitat, in full or light shade. Read more…
Plant of the Week: Carolina Anemone
Like a lot of flowers in the buttercup family, this flower has no petals. Read more…
Plant of the Week: Graceful Trillium
Trillium plants produce no true leaves or stems above ground. Read more…
Plant of the Week: White Water Lily
White water lily is cultivated as an ornamental and frequently appears in water gardens. Read more…
Plant of the Week: Blue Sage
Blue sage is a member of the Mint family (Lamiaceae). “Salvia” is a name that means “healer,” referring to this ancient name for a sage with medicinal properties. Read more about the Blue Sage…
Plant of the Week: Royal Catchfly
Royal Catchfly is a perennial forb that grows from a perennial crown atop a deep taproot, with stems nearly 2 meters long. Read more about the Royal Catchfly…
Plant of the Week: Marsh Blue Violet
This violet species is found from Minnesota south to Arkansas and Mississippi, east to all New England and south to Georgia. It is also known from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Labrador, and Newfoundland. Read more about the Marsh Blue Violet…
Plant of the Week: Heartleaf Arnica
One of the more easily identifiable Arnica species occupying forests, thickets, and streamsides in the mountains from Alaska and western Canada to central California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Read more about the heartleaf arnica…
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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Marchantia (Marchantia polymorpha)
Baldwyn's Milkvine (Matelea baldwyniana)
Stream bogmoss (Mayaca fluviatilis)
Plains Blackfoot (Melampodium leucanthum)
Smoothstem blazingstar (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
Short-styled Bluebell (Mertensia brevistyla)
Lewis’s Monkeyflower (Mimulus lewisii)
Twinflower Sandwort (Minuartia obtusiloba)
Macfarlane's four-o-clock (Mirabilis macfarlanei)
Colorado Four O'clock (Mirabilis multiflora)
Partridge Berry (Mitchella repens)
Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma)
Wood Nymph (Moneses uniflora)
Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
Alpine Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis asiatica)