USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers

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Special Features

The Celebrating Wildflowers website provides a variety of colorful and interesting articles, photos, and activities about our native plants.

Three picture montage of irises: dwarf lake iris, copper iris, and Douglas iris.

Beauty of It All

Beauty of It All takes a closer look at the beauty and remarkable adaptations of wildflowers to their environment. This includes a series of in-depth articles where we explore the remarkable adaptations of wildflowers to diverse environments and specialized habitats.

Follow the Rainbow: Our Native Irises »

Eight picture monatage of unique plant communities.

Unique Plant Communities on Our National Forests and Grasslands

We take a broader look at the communities where wildflowers live, examining a myriad of unique, sometimes unusual, and always fascinating plant communities.

Fading Gold: The Decline of Aspen in the West »

Three images of wildflowers: dwarf dogwood, red trillium, and wheel milkweed.

Plant of the Week

Each week we feature a different wildflower found on our national forests and grasslands.

Nine tiled images of various pollinators, a beetle, bat, bee, ants, hummingbird, lemur, butterfly, wasp, and fly.

Pollinator of the Month

Pollinator of the Month will highlight the interdependency of certain species of native North American wildflowers and one of their animal pollinators. Most plants have a flower morphology, color, blooming period, and/or scent that will attract a particular type of pollinator to reap its food rewards of nectar and pollen.

Windows XP desktop with a Celebrating Wildflowers wallpaper.

Wallpapers

Celebrating Wildflowers provides you a beautiful way to customize your computer's desktop background! You can use one of our wildflower photos to give your desktop a colorful, fresh look.

U.S. Forest Service
Rangeland Management
Botany Program

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Washington DC 20250-1103

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Last modified: Tuesday, 24-Jun-2008 23:13:41 EDT