The bushy, side-emerging flower cluster typical of basket rush. Photo: Anthony Valois/National Park Service, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Juncus textilis, commonly called Basket Rush, is
Eryngium vaseyi, commonly known as Vasey’s Coyote Thistle or simply coyote thistle, is a California endemic wildflower restricted to one of the state’s most imperiled
Red fescue in full bloom, its flowering stems coloring an entire meadow with a rosy haze. Photo: Lihagen, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Festuca rubra,
Fluffgrass tucked into a rock crevice near Las Cruces, New Mexico, its plume-like seed heads catching the light. Photo: tom.sulcer, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Dasyochloa pulchella
A colony of Baltic rush spreading by rhizomes along a wet meadow edge. Photo: Matt Lavin, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Juncus balticus (now classified
Slender buckwheat in flower at Arches National Park, Utah — its loose clusters of tiny white flowers bloom atop wiry, needle-leaved branches. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek
Long-stemmed buckwheat’s small cream-to-pink flower clusters are a magnet for honeybees and native pollinators in late summer. Photo: John Rusk, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Cushion buckwheat’s dense, round flowerheads — nicknamed “butterballs” — rise on short, leafless stalks above the basal mat. Photo: Jim Morefield, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
Mature big squirreltail seedhead — the long, flaring awns shatter and disperse widely at the slightest touch. Photo: Bart and Susan Eisenberg, Wikimedia Commons (CC
Two-horned calicoflower sprawling across drying vernal-pool mud, its usual nursery bed. Photo: Alex Abair / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Downingia bicornuta, commonly called two-horned
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