Wild Mealycup Sage flowering along the trail into McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Photo: Patrick Alexander / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Salvia farinacea, commonly
Desert Chia flower heads with their distinctive spiny maroon bracts, growing from a crack in desert rock. Photo: Joshua Tree National Park (NPS) / Wikimedia
Cleveland Sage blooming in open chaparral, its whorled lavender flowers attracting bees from a distance. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS / Flickr (Public domain) Salvia
Sea Asparagus forms dense mats of jointed, fleshy stems that blush red as summer turns to fall. Photo: Doug Murphy / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
Goodding’s Willow rooted in the rocky wash at Barker Dam, Joshua Tree National Park. Photo: Robb Hannawacker/NPS (Public domain) Salix gooddingii, known as Goodding’s Willow,
A mature Coastal Plain Willow showing its dense, arching canopy. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Salix caroliniana, known as Coastal
A low, trailing mat of Roughfruit Berry carpeting the duff of a Pacific Northwest conifer forest. Photo: Walter Siegmund / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Giant Coneflower towering over a native prairie, its tall bare stems topped with drooping yellow rays and dark cone-shaped centers. Photo: Eric Hunt / Wikimedia
New ʻamaʻu fronds emerge a vivid red before maturing to dark green, a signature feature of this Hawaiian endemic fern. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr
Northern dewberry flowering low along the ground on Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, D.C. Photo: Fritzflohrreynolds, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Rubus flagellaris, the Northern
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