Wildflowers

Slender heliotrope

pasture heliotrope

Heliotropium tenellum

Prairie phlox

Phlox pilosa

Plains sunflower

Helianthus petiolaris

Prairie coneflower

Ratibida columnifera

Butterfly milkweed

butterfly weed, pleurisy root

Asclepias tuberosa

Plains hymenoxys

four-nerve daisy, plains yellow daisy

Tetraneuris scaposa

Indian paintbrush

painted cup

Castilleja coccinea

Prickly lettuce

Lactuca serriola

Breadroot scurf-pea

Indian breadroot, prairie potato, prairie turnip

Pediomelum esculentum

Missouri goldenrod

prairie goldenrod

Solidago missouriensis

Fringe-leaf ruellia

hairy ruellia, prairie petunia

Ruellia humilis

Rayless gaillardia

fragrant gaillardia, pincushion daisy

Gaillardia suavis

Purple prairie-clover

Dalea purpurea

Prairie spurge

Missouri spurge

Chamaesyce missurica

Fire-on-the-mountain

painted euphorbia, painted-leaf spurge, wild poinsettia

Euphorbia cyathophora

Platte River milk-vetch

Platte River ground-plum

Astragalus plattensis

Panicled aster

tall white aster

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum

Thickspike gayfeather

Kansas gayfeather, prairie blazing star, tall blazing star

Liatris pycnostachya

Large-flowered tickclover

pointed-leaf ticktrefoil

Hylodesmum glutinosum

Prairie spiderwort

Tradescantia occidentalis