Dwarf Fothergilla in full spring bloom, its honey-scented bottlebrush flowers opening before the leaves. Photo: Schurdl, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fothergilla gardenii, commonly called
A wild California Coffeeberry shrub with ripening fruit above the Kings Canyon backcountry. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Frangula californica (formerly
Black Ash trees leafing out in a wet lowland forest, the habitat where this species is most at home. Photo: Gilles Ayotte, Wikimedia Commons (CC
Wild Cucumber scrambles rapidly over streamside shrubs, smothering them in a lacy curtain of white flowers by midsummer. Photo: Matt Lavin / Wikimedia Commons (CC
A mature Texas Persimmon shows its characteristic multi-trunked, rounded form on dry limestone ground. Photo: smallcurio from Austin, TX / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
A mature Texas Ebony shows its dense, rounded, evergreen crown on a short, sturdy trunk. Photo: sonnia hill / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Ebenopsis
A mature jumping cholla with its characteristic chains of persistent fruit, Tonto National Forest, Arizona. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Cylindropuntia fulgida,
California oatgrass in full seed head on a Rocky Mountain foothill meadow. Photo: Matt Lavin, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Danthonia californica, commonly called California
A wild Texas olive in full bloom along FM 1017, Jim Hogg County, Texas. Photo: William L. Farr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Cordia boissieri,
Stiff dogwood’s flat-topped flower clusters open in spring at the margin of a Kentucky reservoir. Photo: Mason Brock, Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Cornus foemina, commonly
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