Wildflowers

Low hop-clover

plains clover

Trifolium campestre

Prairie trefoil

American bird's-foot trefoil, Pursh's deer-vetch

Lotus unifoliolatus

Lamb's quarters

pigweed

Chenopodium album

Perennial sweetpea

everlasting pea, perennial pea

Lathyrus latifolius

Pitcher's clematis

bluebell, bluebill, Pitcher's leather flower

Clematis pitcheri

Platte River milk-vetch

Platte River ground-plum

Astragalus plattensis

Indian rush-pea

hog potato, pignut

Hoffmannseggia glauca

Prairie gentian

showy prairie gentian, Texas bluebell

Eustoma exaltatum

Slender milkwort

pink milkwort, Pink polygala

Polygala incarnata

Western horse-nettle

potato-weed

Solanum dimidiatum

Gray goldenrod

Old-field goldenrod, prairie goldenrod

Solidago nemoralis

Rocky Mountain zinnia

Plains zinnia

Zinnia grandiflora

Black-foot daisy

plains blackfoot, rock daisy

Melampodium leucanthum

Potato dandelion

Krigia dandelion

Water hemlock

poison parsnip, spotted cowbane, spotted water hemlock

Cicuta maculata

Wild violet

blue prairie violet, butterfly violet, hooded blue violet, meadow blue violet, prairie blue violet

Viola nephrophylla

Slender heliotrope

pasture heliotrope

Heliotropium tenellum

Prostrate vervain

bigbract verbena, large bracted vervain

Verbena bracteata

Prairie spiderwort

Tradescantia occidentalis

Spiny sowthistle

prickly sowthistle

Sonchus asper