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| wild flower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant | ||
| wildflower | ||
| angiosperm, flowering plant plants having seeds in a closed ovary | ||
| wilding an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | ||
| ranunculus glaberrimus, sagebrush buttercup small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America | ||
| pasque flower, pasqueflower any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | ||
| meadow rue any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum; sometimes rhizomatous or tuberous perennials found in damp shady places and meadows or stream banks; have lacy foliage and clouds of small purple or yellow flowers | ||
| sand verbena any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena | ||
| allionia incarnata, trailing four o'clock, trailing windmills trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico | ||
| calandrinia ciliata, red maids, redmaids succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States | ||
| lewisia cotyledon, siskiyou lewisia evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California | ||
| bitterroot, lewisia rediviva showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | ||
| calyptridium umbellatum, pussy's-paw, pussy-paw, pussy-paws, spraguea umbellatum pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America | ||
| talinum aurantiacum, flame-flower, flame flower, flameflower plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | ||
| antheropeas wallacei, dwarf daisy, eriophyllum wallacei, woolly daisy tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum | ||
| arnica cordifolia, heartleaf arnica wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California | ||
| arnica montana herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings | ||
| false chamomile any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas | ||
| oxeye an oval or round dormer window | ||
| golden aster any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada | ||
| hawk's-beard, hawk's-beards any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere | ||
| brittle bush, brittlebush, encelia farinosa, incienso fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | ||
| enceliopsis nudicaulis, sunray a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | ||
| engelmannia common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | ||
| fleabane any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas | ||
| woolly sunflower any plant of the genus Eriophyllum | ||
| gaillardia any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy | ||
| desert sunflower, gerea canescens slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico | ||
| goldenbush any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | ||
| heliopsis, oxeye any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers | ||
| chrysopsis villosa, hairy golden aster, heterotheca villosa, prairie golden aster hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis | ||
| alpine gold, alpine hulsea, hulsea algida low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States | ||
| dwarf hulsea, hulsea nana similar to but smaller than alpine hulsea | ||
| goldfields, lasthenia chrysostoma small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | ||
| hawkbit any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | ||
| edelweiss, leontopodium alpinum alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | ||
| leucogenes leontopodium, north island edelweiss perennial herb closely resembling European edelweiss; New Zealand | ||
| gay-feather, gayfeather, blazing star, snakeroot, button snakeroot any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | ||
| machaeranthera tanacetifolia, tahoka daisy, tansy leaf aster wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico | ||
| machaeranthera bigelovii, sticky aster wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona | ||
| machaeranthera tortifoloia, mojave aster wild aster having greyish leafy stems and flower heads with narrow pale lavender or violet rays; of rocky desert slopes California to Arizona and Utah | ||
| common madia, common tarweed, madia elegans California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays | ||
| blackfoot daisy, melampodium leucanthum bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico | ||
| coneflower any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | ||
| nodding groundsel, senecio bigelovii plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States | ||
| senecio glabellus, butterweed, ragwort any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | ||
| arrowleaf groundsel, senecio triangularis perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads; moist places in mountains of western North America | ||
| goldenrod any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | ||
| haplopappus acaulis, stemless golden weed, stenotus acaulis dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus | ||
| northern dune tansy, tanacetum douglasii lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America | ||
| hymenoxys acaulis, stemless hymenoxys, tetraneuris acaulis perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America | ||
| alpine sunflower, hymenoxys grandiflora, old man of the mountain, tetraneuris grandiflora whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States | ||
| tragopogon dubius, yellow salsify European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower | ||
| goatsbeard, meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, tragopogon pratensis weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | ||
| mule's ears, wyethia amplexicaulis balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks; northwestern United States | ||
| white-rayed mule's ears, wyethia helianthoides herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States | ||
| indian pipe, monotropa uniflora, waxflower small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age | ||
| false beachdrops, monotropa hypopithys, pinesap fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys | ||
| sarcodes sanguinea, snow plant a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground | ||
| eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian, bluebell one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | ||
| boykinia elata, boykinia occidentalis, coast boykinia plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers; western North America | ||
| leatherleaf saxifrage, leptarrhena pyrolifolia plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho | ||
| lithophragma parviflorum, prairie star plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta | ||
| fringed grass of parnassus, parnassia fimbriata bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico | ||
| false alumroot, fringe cups, tellima grandiflora plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho | ||
| tiarella unifoliata, false miterwort, false mitrewort plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana | ||
| kitten-tails a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers | ||
| painted cup, indian paintbrush any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts | ||
| collinsia bicolor, collinsia heterophylla, innocense, purple chinese houses white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | ||
| collinsia parviflora, maiden blue-eyed mary small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado | ||
| blue-eyed mary, collinsia verna eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers | ||
| golden-beard penstemon, penstemon barbatus plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip | ||
| penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward | ||
| penstemon cyananthus, platte river penstemon erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming | ||
| davidson's penstemon, penstemon davidsonii mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California | ||
| hot-rock penstemon, penstemon deustus stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah | ||
| jones' penstemon, penstemon dolius low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah | ||
| lowbush penstemon, penstemon fruticosus, shrubby penstemon low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems | ||
| narrow-leaf penstemon, penstemon linarioides plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona | ||
| mountain pride, penstemon newberryi mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California | ||
| balloon flower, penstemon palmeri, scented penstemon fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah | ||
| parry's penstemon, penstemon parryi erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona | ||
| cliff penstemon, penstemon rupicola, rock penstemon one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California | ||
| penstemon rydbergii, rydberg's penstemon plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado | ||
| cascade penstemon, penstemon serrulatus whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon | ||
| penstemon whippleanus, whipple's penstemon wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico | ||
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