Sweet-scented bedstraw forming a loose carpet across a shaded woodland floor in upstate New York. Photo: R. A. Nonenmacher, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Galium
Swamp jessamine in bloom at Crosby Arboretum, Mississippi. Photo: Jason Hollinger, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Important: every part of this plant is highly toxic
Graceful bedstraw scrambling through chaparral leaf litter in San Diego County. Photo: Millie Basden / iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Galium porrigens, commonly known
Woodland sunflower in bloom along a shaded trail edge. Photo: Fritzflohrreynolds, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Helianthus divaricatus, the Woodland Sunflower (also called rough sunflower
A single western sunflower flowerhead rising on its characteristically bare stem above a prairie remnant. Photo: Joshua Mayer, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Helianthus occidentalis,
A spreading patch of oak fern carpeting the forest floor, Peru, New York. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Gymnocarpium dryopteris, known as Oak Fern
A wild Goodding’s verbena mound in bloom, southern Nevada. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Glandularia gooddingii, commonly called Goodding’s Verbena or southwestern
Richardson’s Geranium blooming near Bridal Veil Falls, Telluride, Colorado. Photo: JohnIngraham, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Geranium richardsonii, commonly known as Richardson’s Geranium, is
Northern Gentian in subalpine turf on Mount Wolverine, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Photo: Andrey Zharkikh, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Gentianella amarella, commonly called
Globe Gilia (ssp. abrotanifolia) blooming wild in San Bernardino County, California. Photo: Matt Berger, via iNaturalist/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Gilia capitata, commonly called Globe
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