Wildflowers Encyclopedia

Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's Breeches)

Dicentra cucullaria is a delicate spring ephemeral reaching 15-30 cm tall, producing distinctive white pantaloon-shaped flowers with two inflated spurs resembling upside-down breeches on arching racemes above finely dissected fern-like...

Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's Breeches)

Dicentra cucullaria is a delicate spring ephemeral reaching 15-30 cm tall, producing distinctive white pantaloon-shaped flowers with two inflated spurs resembling upside-down breeches on arching racemes above finely dissected fern-like...

Matricaria chamomilla (Wild Chamomile)

Matricaria chamomilla (syn. M. recutita) is a fragrant annual reaching 15-60 cm, producing daisy-like flower heads with white ray florets and hollow, conical yellow disc centres from May through September...

Matricaria chamomilla (Wild Chamomile)

Matricaria chamomilla (syn. M. recutita) is a fragrant annual reaching 15-60 cm, producing daisy-like flower heads with white ray florets and hollow, conical yellow disc centres from May through September...

Sagittaria latifolia (Broadleaf Arrowhead)

Broadleaf arrowhead is a distinctive emergent aquatic perennial found throughout North America, instantly recognizable by its large, arrow-shaped leaves and whorls of white, three-petaled flowers from July through September. Growing...

Sagittaria latifolia (Broadleaf Arrowhead)

Broadleaf arrowhead is a distinctive emergent aquatic perennial found throughout North America, instantly recognizable by its large, arrow-shaped leaves and whorls of white, three-petaled flowers from July through September. Growing...

Larrea tridentata (Creosote Bush)

Larrea tridentata is an evergreen shrub of the Zygophyllaceae family, the dominant plant of North American hot deserts from southern California to western Texas and northern Mexico. Plants grow 100-300...

Larrea tridentata (Creosote Bush)

Larrea tridentata is an evergreen shrub of the Zygophyllaceae family, the dominant plant of North American hot deserts from southern California to western Texas and northern Mexico. Plants grow 100-300...

Ammophila breviligulata (American Beachgrass)

Ammophila breviligulata is a vigorous perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to Atlantic and Great Lakes coastal dunes of North America from Newfoundland to North Carolina and west to...

Ammophila breviligulata (American Beachgrass)

Ammophila breviligulata is a vigorous perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to Atlantic and Great Lakes coastal dunes of North America from Newfoundland to North Carolina and west to...

Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)

Eschscholzia californica is an annual to short-lived perennial of the Papaveraceae family, native to western North America from Washington to Baja California. Plants grow 15-60 cm tall with finely divided...

Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)

Eschscholzia californica is an annual to short-lived perennial of the Papaveraceae family, native to western North America from Washington to Baja California. Plants grow 15-60 cm tall with finely divided...