A wax currant shrub along the North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, with ripening berries among its rounded, gray-green leaves. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Wikimedia Commons
Deep red, star-shaped flowers of Catalina currant open against its glossy, citrus-scented evergreen leaves. Photo: Jengod, San Diego Botanic Garden, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
California gooseberry in bloom, showing the hooked spines and dangling, two-tone flowers typical of the species. Photo: Tom Hilton, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Ribes
A Pacific rhododendron flower cluster framed by its characteristically large, leathery leaves. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Rhododendron macrophyllum, the Pacific rhododendron, is the
A mature Oconee azalea in full spring bloom, its orange-red flowers opening before the leaves expand. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Rhododendron flammeum, commonly called the
Blowout grass colonizing the face of an active sand dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Photo: NPS (Public domain) Redfieldia flexuosa, commonly called blowout
A mature swamp post oak growing with Spanish moss in a lower Coastal Plain woodland. Photo: Bruce Kirchoff, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Quercus similis,
A stand of gray-headed coneflower blooming along a prairie shoreline, its tall stems swaying above the surrounding grasses. Photo: USFWS Midwest, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
New Mexico plumeseed in bloom, its weak zigzag stem threading up among neighboring desert wildflowers. Photo: Joshua Tree National Park / NPS, Wikimedia Commons (Public
A mature Oglethorpe Oak with its characteristic rounded, densely twiggy crown. Photo: Bruce Kirchoff, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Quercus oglethorpensis, the Oglethorpe Oak, is
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