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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Arrowhead (Sagittaria cuneata)
Giant Arrowhead (Sagittaria montevidensis)
Blue Sage (Salvia azurea var. grandiflora)
American Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra L. ssp. Canadensis (L.) R. Bolli)
American Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)
Yellow Pitcherplant (Sarracenia flava)
Purple Pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea)
White mountain-saxifrage (Saxifraga paniculata)
Mimbres figwort (Scrophularia macrantha)
Cockerell’s Stonecrop (Sedum cockerellii)
Widow’s Cross (Sedum pulchellum)
Creeping Sibbaldia (Sibbaldia procumbens)
Moss Campion (Silene acaulis)
Wherry's Catchfly (Silene caroliniana var. wherryi)
Royal Catchfly (Silene regia)
Scarlet Catchfly (Silene subciliata)
Fire Pink (Silene virginica)
Cut-leaf Prairie-Dock (Silphium pinnatifidum)
Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum)
Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium albidum)
Hairy Leafcup (Smallanthus uvedalius)
Alpine False Candytuft (Smelowskia calycina var. americana)
Tall Goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
Ouachita Goldenrod (Solidago ouachitensis)
Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)
Ute Lady's Tresses (Spiranthes diluvialis)
hooded ladies'-tresses (Spiranthes Romanzoffiana)
Stemless Goldenweed (Stenotus Acaulis)
Silky Camellia (Stewartia malacodendron)
Twisted Stalk (Streptopus amplexifolius)
Pencil Flower (Stylosanthes Biflora)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Mountain Kittentails (Synthyris missurica)