A Franklin tree flower at Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia — every tree in cultivation today descends from seed collected along Georgia’s Altamaha River in the 1770s.
Beach strawberry in bloom at Pacifica State Beach, San Mateo County, California. Photo: Franco Folini, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Fragaria chiloensis, the Beach
Swamp privet flowering along its bare branches in early spring, before the leaves emerge — one of the first native shrubs to bloom in southern
A young mēhamehame grown at a Hawai’i rare-plant propagation facility — nearly every tree alive today traces back to conservation nurseries like this one. Photo:
A mature Florida strangler fig, its fused aerial roots forming a hollow, lattice-like trunk around the long-vanished host tree. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A mature Rough Fescue bunch growing in montane grassland habitat near Durant Canyon, Montana. Photo: Matt Lavin, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Festuca campestris, commonly
A mature Fishhook Barrel Cactus near Tucson, Arizona, showing the rounded, heavily ribbed form and dense fishhook spines. Photo: Susan Lynn Peterson, Wikimedia Commons (CC
A mature California Barrel Cactus near Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, with the ribbed, spine-covered form typical of the species. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
No wild-photographed, verifiably identified images of Eysenhardtia orthocarpa were available from Wikimedia Commons at the time this page was written; most “kidneywood” photos online show
Climbing false buckwheat twining through forest-edge vegetation, with its loose racemes of greenish-white flowers. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fallopia
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