A tall blue lettuce flowering spike at a forest edge in Stowe, Vermont. Photo: Erik Erbes, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Lactuca biennis, commonly called
A mature seashore mallow in bloom, showing its bushy, many-branched habit. Photo: Consultaplantas, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Kosteletzkya pentacarpos — long known in North
A mature burroweed clump in full fall bloom on a gravelly desert slope. Photo: Sue in az, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Isocoma tenuisecta, commonly called
Dwarf Violet Iris blooming in open pine-oak woods, Ouachita National Forest, Polk County, Arkansas. Photo: Eric Hunt / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Iris verna
Dixie Iris flowering along a blackwater swamp at Circle B Bar Reserve, Florida. Photo: Robert Guralnick / iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) Iris hexagona Walter, commonly
Iris nelsonii Randolph, commonly called the Abbeville Red Iris (or Abbeville Swamp Iris), is one of the rarest wildflowers in North America — a strikingly
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.
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