Hoary tansyaster blooming along a trail in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, Utah. Photo: James St. John (CC BY 2.0) Dieteria canescens (long known as
Uluhe’s distinctive repeatedly forking fronds scrambling into a dense thicket, Munro Trail, Lanai. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) Dicranopteris linearis,
Squirrel corn in bloom among its own ferny foliage, Muskingum County, Ohio. Photo: James St. John, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Dicentra canadensis, commonly called
Blue dicks flowering from a rocky slope in the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley drainage, California. Photo: Jim Morefield, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Dichelostemma capitatum,
Woodvamp climbing high into the canopy of a loblolly pine. Photo: Hameltion / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Decumaria barbara — commonly called Woodvamp, and
Carolina larkspur blooming in the open pine woods of Sabine National Forest, Texas. Photo: sonnia hill / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Delphinium carolinianum, known
Teddy bear cholla at Lost Dutchman State Park, Arizona. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Cylindropuntia bigelovii, commonly called teddy bear cholla
Swamp loosestrife’s arching stems root wherever the tips touch mud or shallow water, in Oswego County, New York. Photo: Antepenultimate, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A low, sprawling colony of California cholla on a San Diego County hillside, with prickly pear behind it. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Cylindropuntia californica, commonly
A Piute cypress on Piute Mountain, Sierra Nevada, growing in the dry pinyon-juniper and oak woodland typical of the species. Photo: Rick Sharloch, via Wikimedia
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