Toothed calicoflower blooming at the edge of a drying vernal pool. Photo: Sherwin Carlquist / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Downingia cuspidata, known as toothed
A wild clump of ladyfingers growing in its sandy, coastal San Diego County habitat at Torrey Pines. Photo: iNaturalist contributor / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Dudleya
A dense stand of common spikerush colonizing a creek margin in Montana — its typical streamside habit. Photo: Matt Lavin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
Tapertip hawksbeard growing among big sagebrush in southwest Idaho. Photo: Thayne Tuason, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Crepis acuminata, known as tapertip hawksbeard or longleaf
San Bernardino larkspur in bloom, San Luis Obispo County, California. Photo: Alan Schmierer, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Delphinium parryi, commonly called San Bernardino larkspur or Parry’s
Grand collomia at Snow Lakes trailhead, Chelan County, Washington. Photo: Thayne Tuason, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Collomia grandiflora, commonly called grand collomia or large-flowered
The delicate, open seed panicle of annual hairgrass, with small V-shaped spikelets held on thread-fine branches. Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock / USDA NRCS Wetland Flora,
Steve’s pincushion growing from rocky desert soil, its open, branching stems topped with pale pincushion-like flower heads. Photo: andrey zharkikh / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY
Fairy swords lip fern growing from a crevice at Montezuma Pass, Coronado National Memorial, Arizona. Photo: Katja Schulz / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Cheilanthes
Coville’s lip fern growing from a crack in a granite boulder in the White Mountains, Nevada. Photo: Jim Morefield / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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