Patriots

Bright yellow flowers all along the highway. From western Nebraska and Kansas west across Colorado, they are prairie sunflowers,  Helianthus...

Cirsium undulatum, Native Thistle of the Plains Wavy leaf thistle,  Cirsium undulatum , is a native thistle of the plains and the west of...

Gardening with natives, East Coast style. On a Road Scholar tour of gardens of the Philadelphia area, we visited Mount Cuba Center . Locate...

The garden flowers of the central U.S. are mostly not native. The garden store was robbed:  it was a violet crime. sweet violet, Viola odora...

What is that little plant? Across most of the United States you can find it growing on sandy, disturbed sites.  It is Oenothera suffrutescen...