A flowering desert lavender shrub on a rocky desert flat, its pale wand-like branches studded with lavender flower clusters. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A low cushion of entireleaf daisy flowering among frost-shattered rock and gravel, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Nunavut. Photo: Ansgar Walk, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Hulteniella
Beach heather forms dense, ground-hugging mounds right in open dune sand, often the first shrub to colonize a blowout. Photo: Fungus Guy, Wikimedia Commons (CC
Island Alumroot’s airy flower spikes rise well above its mounding foliage in spring. Photo: Stickpen, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Heuchera maxima, commonly known as
Cow parsnip’s broad, flat-topped umbel of white flowers, open from late spring through summer. Photo: Danielle Langlois, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Heracleum maximum (syn.
Clay’s Hibiscus produces showy red flowers nearly year-round. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Hibiscus clayi, known as Clay’s Hibiscus, is
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
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