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Yellowstone National Park
Plants and Wildflowers
Fireweed growing between burnt trees
Fireweed growing between burnt trees
 

Yellowstone is home to over 1,700 species of native vascular plants and over 170 species of exotic (non-native) plants.

• Wildflowers (84KB pdf)

• Yellowstone Sand Verbena

• Exotic Vegetation Management in Yellowstone (319 KB pdf)
Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988  

Did You Know?
The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.

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Last Updated: September 16, 2007 at 15:35 EST