A yellow colicroot spike just starting to open at Sweetbay Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. The flowers open from the bottom of the spike
A flowering stem of Poa pratensis in the Great Smoky Mountains, showing the open, pyramid-shaped panicle with its branches in whorls. Most plants seen in
A Spanish needles flower head in North Palm Beach, Florida, with a honey bee working the golden disk florets. Few Florida wildflowers are visited by
Mexican morning glory twining up a columnar cactus near El Camarón, Oaxaca, in the plant’s native tropical American range. Photo: Dick Culbert, via Wikimedia Commons
Wild Boston fern, the native Hawaiian subspecies hawaiiensis (ʻōkupukupu), on a mossy bank at Palikea in the Waiʻanae Mountains, Oʻahu. Photo: David Eickhoff, via Wikimedia
Broadleaf milkweed in flower at Arches National Park, Utah. Its large, leathery leaves and pale green flowers are a familiar sight on the Colorado Plateau.
Dwarf milkweed in bloom on sandy ground in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The flower cluster nearly rests on the soil. Photo: Craig Martin, via Wikimedia
Horsetail milkweed in flower in August grassland near Fort Bayard, Grant County, New Mexico. Photo: Patrick Alexander, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Asclepias subverticillata, known as
A silver-spotted skipper nectaring on cylindrical blazing star at Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie State Natural Area, Wisconsin. Photo: Aaron Carlson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
Beach pea in flower on a shingle beach at Pointe-à-la-Frégate, Quebec, in July. Photo: Danielle Langlois, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Lathyrus japonicus, known
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