Zigzag iris blooming at Ranch North Woods Preserve, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Iris brevicaulis, commonly called Zigzag Iris (also sold
Giant blue iris blooming beneath bald cypress at the Barataria Preserve, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Louisiana. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Iris giganticaerulea,
Beach morning glory vines running across open sand at Venice Beach, Florida. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 US) Ipomoea
Ripe red fruit on a longstalk holly at Cranberry Glades Botanical Area, West Virginia — one of the highest-elevation bogs in the species’ small range.
A flowering desert lavender shrub on a rocky desert flat, its pale wand-like branches studded with lavender flower clusters. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A low cushion of entireleaf daisy flowering among frost-shattered rock and gravel, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Nunavut. Photo: Ansgar Walk, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Hulteniella
Beach heather forms dense, ground-hugging mounds right in open dune sand, often the first shrub to colonize a blowout. Photo: Fungus Guy, Wikimedia Commons (CC
Island Alumroot’s airy flower spikes rise well above its mounding foliage in spring. Photo: Stickpen, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Heuchera maxima, commonly known as
Cow parsnip’s broad, flat-topped umbel of white flowers, open from late spring through summer. Photo: Danielle Langlois, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Heracleum maximum (syn.
Clay’s Hibiscus produces showy red flowers nearly year-round. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Hibiscus clayi, known as Clay’s Hibiscus, is
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