A mature bunchgrass clump of Thurber’s needlegrass in sagebrush steppe. Photo: Sheri Hagwood, Bureau of Land Management (public domain) Achnatherum thurberianum (Piper) Barkworth — Thurber’s
Purple mat forms dense, flat mats of magenta flowers on open desert gravel. Photo: Jim Morefield, White Mountains, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Nama
Alpine forget-me-not blooming in Denali National Park, Alaska. Photo: Jacob W. Frank, NPS (public domain) Myosotis asiatica (Vesterg.) Schischk. & Serg. — the Alpine Forget-me-not,
A spike muhly clump near the Black Range, New Mexico, its narrow, upright seed heads rising above a loose grassy sward. Photo: Patrick Alexander, Catron
A mature mountain muhly clump in a ponderosa pine opening, its fine seed heads rising well above the basal foliage. Photo: Dave Powell, USDA Forest
Figure 571 from Hitchcock & Chase’s Manual of the Grasses of the United States (1951), based on a specimen collected near Griffiths, Arizona. Public domain,
Lemon beebalm’s tiered whorls of lavender flowers open from the bottom of the spike upward. Photo: Alex Abair, iNaturalist, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
A cluster of Indian pipe pushing up through leaf litter in deep forest shade. Photo: Jdshide, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Monotropa uniflora, known as Indian Pipe
Winged monkeyflower blooming at the edge of a wet meadow. Photo: Melissa McMasters, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Mimulus alatus, commonly called the Winged Monkeyflower
A mature Sticky Monkeyflower shrub in full bloom on a chaparral hillside. Photo: Awinch1001, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Diplacus aurantiacus — long known as Mimulus aurantiacus
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