American sea rocket’s low, sprawling mound of fleshy leaves anchored in loose beach sand. Photo: Ixitixel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Cakile edentula, commonly
A clump of California brome growing along a mountain trail, its seed heads already arching under their own weight. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
California brickellbush growing from a limestone outcrop in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Brickellia californica, commonly known as
The distinctive arching panicle of Arctic Brome, with its fuzzy, drooping spikelets, over a prairie meadow. Photo: iNaturalist contributor, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Bromus
Swamp fern forms dense, slowly spreading clumps of upright, leathery fronds in wet, shaded ground. Photo: Douglas Goldman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blechnum
A spreading colony of resin birch in early leaf, growing along a subalpine creek. Photo: Gilles Ayotte, Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
A mature deer fern clump, with narrow, upright fertile fronds rising from a spreading rosette of broader sterile fronds. Photo: David Stang, via Wikimedia Commons
Woolly Desert Marigold in Pahranagat Wash, southern Nevada. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Baileya pleniradiata, commonly called Woolly Desert Marigold, is a
Mountain Paper Birch growing near treeline on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont. Photo: Doug McGrady, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Betula cordifolia, known as Mountain Paper Birch
Showy Milkweed in bloom, with its characteristic rounded flower clusters and velvety gray-green leaves. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Asclepias speciosa, commonly known as
