wildflower

1. Wild or uncultivated flowering plant (synset 111692851)
   is a type of:

   • wilding - a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
   • angiosperm, flowering plant - plants having seeds in a closed ovary
   subtypes:

   • 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
   • flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower, talinum aurantiacum - 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 - Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers
   • 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 - herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona
   • 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 - a plant of the genus Haplopappus
   • 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
   • blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather, 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 - a wildflower of the genus Ratibida
   • 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
   • butterweed, ragwort, senecio glabellus - American ragwort with yellow flowers
   • 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
   • bluebell, eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian - 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
   • false miterwort, false mitrewort, tiarella unifoliata - 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
   • indian paintbrush, painted cup - 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
   • daucus carota, queen anne's lace, wild carrot - a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots
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