Plant of the Week
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Plant of the Week: Red or Eastern Columbine
This plant has flowers with petals which are said to appear like an eagle's claw.
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Plant of the Week: California Poppy
California poppy, the state flower of California, is native to the Pacific slope of North America from Western Oregon to Baja California.
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Plant of the Week: Plants of the Winter Solstice
Plants play an important role in many of our holiday traditions, including the season surrounding the winter solstice.
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Plant of the Week: Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum, wild ginger [British Columbia wild ginger], is a native perennial forb that is evergreen throughout most of its range.
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Plant of the Week: Apache Plume
Apache plume blooms in the spring, and sometimes again in the fall, with 2 inch white rose-like flowers.
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Plant of the Week: Spoon-leaved Sundew
Spoon-leaved Sundew is an “insectivorous” species, meaning that it traps insects on the sticky hairs of its leaves and then digests them for the nutrients.
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Plant of the Week: Wheel Milkweed
This milkweed occurs in uplands of grasslands across the central and southern United States, where it is apparently rare...
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Plant of the Week: Dwarf Dogwood
Dwarf dogwood, is also known as bunchberry, bunchberry dogwood, and Canadian dwarf cornel.
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Plant of the Week: Red Trillium
Red trillium tends to occur in drier habitats and is typically found on acid soils, in open dry or rich mesic woods.
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Plant of the Week: Dwarf Clover
Dwarf clover is at home on mountain tops in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to northern New Mexico.
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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.
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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)
Colic Root (Aletris farinosa)
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)
Carolina Anemone (Anemone caroliniana)
Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
Meadow Pussytoes (Antennaria arcuata)
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)
Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
Utah Columbine (Aquilegia scopulorum)
Smooth Rockcress (Arabis laevigata)
Bristly Sarsaparilla (Aralia hispida)
Lodgepole Pine Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum)
Southwestern prickly poppy (Argemone pleiacantha)
Jack-in-The-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Heartleaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia)
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)
Mead’s Milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
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)
Hyattville Milkvetch (Astragalus jejunus var. articulatus)
Schultz’s Milk-vetch (Astragalus molybdenus var. schultziorum)
Ferron's Milkvetch (Astragalus musiniensis)
Precocious Milkvetch (Astragalus proimanthes)
Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
Fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens)
Fern-leaved False Foxglove (Aureolaria pedicularia var. intercedens)
Pacific Mosquitofern (Azolla filiculoides)