Plant of the Week
Sugarstick (Allotropa virgata)
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.
Each week Celebrating Wildflowers features a different wildflower found on our national forests and grasslands. Enjoy them here as well as throughout Celebrating Wildflowers.
The thumbnail links below lead to previous Plant of the Week descriptions.
Threadleaf giant hyssop (Agastache rupestris)
Colorado Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea)
Red or Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Southwestern prickly poppy (Argemone pliecantha)
Jack-in-The-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Northern Wormwood (Artemisia campestris ssp. borealis)
Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)
Wheel Milkweed (Asclepias uncialis)
American Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum)
Scarlet Milkvetch (Astragalus coccineus)
Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata)
Bryoandersonia Moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra)
Bug-on-a-stick moss (Buxbaumia viridis)
Red Maids (Calandrinia ciliata)
White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus eurycarpus)
Umpqua mariposa lily (Calochortus umpquaensis)
Butterfly Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus)
White Marsh Marigold (Caltha leptosepala)
Eastern Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
Common Camas (Camassia quamash)
Wild Hyacinths (Camassia scillioides)
Tansyleaf Suncup (Camissonia tanacetifolia)
Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
Plantain-leaf sedge (Carex plantaginea)
Christ’s Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja christii)
Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius)
Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Tweedy's lewisia (Cistanthe tweedyi)
Bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis)
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt.)
Dwarf Dogwood (Cornus canadensis)
Pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
Mountain Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium montanum)
Sacred thorn-apple (Datura wrightii)
Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
Spoon-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia)
Featherleaf Fleabane (Erigeron pinnatisectus)
Elegant Fawnlily (Erythronium elegans)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa)
California Flannelbush (Fremontodendron californicum)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata)
Mountain avens (Geum peckii)
American Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana L.)
Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis)
Streambank Wild Hollyhock (Iliamna rivularis)
Dwarf Lake Iris (Iris lacustris)
Dwarf Iris (Iris verna)
Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)
Sacajawea's bitterroot (Lewisia sacajaweana)
Savanna blazing star (Liatris scariosa var. nieuwlandii)
Western Lily (Lilium occidentale)
Bog Spicebush (Lindera subcoriaceae)
Lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Twinberry Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata)
Sundial or Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis)
Sabin's Lupine (Lupinus sabinianus)
Baldwyn's Milkvine (Matelea baldwyniana)
Stream bogmoss, (Mayaca aubletii)
Macfarlane's four-o-clock (Mirabilis macfarlanei)
Partridge Berry (Mitchella repens)
Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma)
Indian Olive (Nestronia umbellula)
Shasta snow-wreath (Neviusia cliftonii)
Tufted evening-primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
Prickly Pear (Opuntia basilaris)
Dwarf Ginseng (Panax trifolius)
Pale Poppy (Papaver alboroseum)
Lemonscent (Pectis angustifolia)
Simpson's Hedgehog Cactus (Pediocactus simpsonii)
Payette Beardtongue (Penstemon payettensis)
Large Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
Littlecup Penstemon (Penstemon sepalulus)
Yellow Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris)
White Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera integrilabia)
Redwhisker clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra)
Appalachian Jacob's ladder (Polemonium vanbruntiae)
Gaywings (Polygala paucifolia Willd.)
Woodland Pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea)
Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata)
Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii)
Rhodora (Rhododendron canadense)
Lapland Rosebay (Rhododendron lapponicum)
Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)
Prairie Rose (Rosa setigera)
Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)
Mimbres figwort (Scrophularia macrantha)
Fire Pink (Silene virginica)
Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Goat's Rue (Tephrosia virginiana)
Starflower (Trientalis borealis)
Red Trillium (Trillium erectum L.)
Western White Trillium (Trillium ovatum var. ovatum)
Sweet white trillium (Trillium simile)
Vasey's Trillium (Trillium vaseyi)
Three Birds Orchid (Triphora trianthophora)
Ithuriel's Spear (Triteleia laxa)
Common bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza)
Nuttall's Violet (Viola nuttallii)
Birdfoot Violet (Viola pedata)
White Mule's Ears (Wyethia helianthoides)
Plants of the Winter Solstice
