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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Red Maids (Calandrinia ciliata)
White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus eurycarpus)
Umpqua mariposa lily (Calochortus umpquaensis)
Butterfly Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus)
Tuberous Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus)
White Marsh Marigold (Caltha leptosepala)
Yellow Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
Eastern Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
Common Camas (Camassia quamash)
Wild Hyacinths (Camassia scilloides)
Tansyleaf Suncup (Camissonia tanacetifolia)
Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
Heartleaf Bittercress (Cardamine cordifolia)
Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
Clustered Sedge (Carex cumulata)
Plantain-leaf sedge (Carex plantaginea)
Native Sedge (Carex vernacula)
Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)
Christ’s Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja christii)
Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)
Pale painted cup (Castilleja septentrionalis)
Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
Field Chickweed (Cerastium arvense)
Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius)
Spotted Sandmat (Chamaesyce maculata)
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Soap Plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum)
Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata)
Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
Wavyleaf Thistle (Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng.)
Sacramento Mountain Thistle (Cirsium vinaceum)
Tweedy's lewisia (Cistanthe tweedyi)
Small Spreading Pogonia (Cleistes bifaria)
Purple clematis (Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis)
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata)
Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii)
Bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis)
Butterfly Pea (Clitoria mariana)
Tiger's Eye (Coltricia Perennis)
Birdbill Dayflower (Commelina dianthifolia)
American Cancer-root (Conopholis americana)
Merten's Coralroot (Corallorhiza mertensiana)
Autumn Coral-Root (Corallorhiza odontorhiza)
Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata)
Early Coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida)
Wister's Coralroot (Corallorhiza wisteriana)
Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt.)
Dwarf Dogwood (Cornus canadensis L.)
Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Plateau Yellow Miner’s Candle (Cryptantha flava)
Five-angled Dodder (Cuscuta pentagona)
Turpentine spring-parsley (Cymopterus terebinthinus)
Pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
White Lady Slipper Orchid (Cypripedium candidum)
Clustered Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium fasciculatum)
Mountain Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium montanum)
Showy Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium reginae)