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. , there are 3,930 species of plants in Utah, with 3,128 of those being indigenous and 792 being introduced through various means.

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Each entry lists the

scientific name In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

first (sorted alphabetically), then one or more common names for the plant (if any).

Flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. E ...

that have been introduced to the state are indicated with an † at the right of the scientific name. Entries are otherwise native. Entries marked with ‡ are considered invasive or noxious per the official list of noxious weeds maintained by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, though nine of those are not known to exist in Utah and have therefore not been included here.

Amaranthaceae

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Allenrolfea occidentalis ''Allenrolfea occidentalis'', the iodine bush, is a low-lying shrub of the Southwestern United States, California, Idaho, and northern Mexico.Shultz, L.M.: 'eFloras 2008''Allenrolfea occidentalis'' in Flora of North America Missouri Botanical Ga ...

'' – iodine bush *''

Atriplex argentea ''Atriplex argentea'' is a species of saltbush known by the common names silverscale saltbush and silver orache. It is native to western North America from southern Canada to northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, generally on ...

'' – silverscale saltbush, silver orache *'' Atriplex canescens'' – chamiso, chamiza, four-wing saltbush *''

Atriplex confertifolia ''Atriplex confertifolia'', the shadscale or spiny saltbush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Amaranthaceae, which is native to the western United States and northern Mexico. Description The height of ''Atriplex confertifolia'' vari ...

'' – shadscale *'' Atriplex elegans'' – wheelscale saltbush, Mecca orach, wheelscale *'' Atriplex garrettii'' – Garrett's saltbush *''

Atriplex hymenelytra ''Atriplex hymenelytra'', the desert holly, is silvery-whitish-gray shrub in the family Amaranthaceae, native to deserts of the southwestern United States.Wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert, Richard Spellenberg, 2nf ed, 2012, Mojave Desert Wild ...

'' – desert holly *''

Atriplex lentiformis ''Atriplex lentiformis'' (quail bush, big saltbrush, big saltbush, quailbrush, lenscale, len-scale saltbush and white thistle) is a species of saltbush. Distribution ''Atriplex lentiformis'' is native to the southwestern United States and northe ...

'' – quail bush, big saltbrush, big saltbush, quailbrush, lenscale, len-scale saltbush, white thistle *''

Atriplex nuttallii ''Atriplex nuttallii'', also known as Nuttall's saltbush, is native to central and western North America. It has been treated by some botanists as a synonym of ''Atriplex canescens''.Atriplex phyllostegia'' – arrowscale, leafcover saltweed, Truckee orach *'' Atriplex polycarpa'' – allscale, cattle spinach, allscale saltbush, cattle saltbush *'' Atriplex robusta'' *'' Atriplex truncata'' – wedgeleaf saltbush, wedgescale, wedge orach *'' Blitum bonus-henricus'' (also ''Chenopodium bonus-henricus'')† – Good-King-Henry, poor-man's asparagus, perennial goosefoot, Lincolnshire spinach, Markery, English mercury, mercury goosefoot *''

Blitum capitatum Strawberry blite (''Blitum capitatum'', syn. ''Chenopodium capitatum'') is an edible annual plant, also known as blite goosefoot, strawberry goosefoot, strawberry spinach, Indian paint, and Indian ink. It is native to most of North America thr ...

'' (or ''Chenopodium capitatum'') – blite goosefoot, strawberry goosefoot, strawberry spinach, Indian paint, Indian ink *''

Blitum virgatum ''Blitum virgatum'', ( syn. ''Chenopodium foliosum'') is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name leafy goosefoot. It is native to Eurasia. It can be found on other continents as an introduced species, growin ...

'' (or ''Chenopodium foliosum'')† – leafy goosefoot *''

Chenopodiastrum murale ''Chenopodiastrum murale'', (Syn. ''Chenopodium murale'') is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names nettle-leaved goosefoot, Australian-spinach, salt-green, and sowbane. This plant is native to Europe and parts o ...

'' (or ''Chenopodium murale'') – nettle-leaved goosefoot, Australian-spinach, salt-green, sowbane *''

Chenopodium album ''Chenopodium album'' is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus ''Chenopodium''. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, wild spinach and fat-h ...

''† – lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, manure weed, wild spinach, fat-hen, white goosefoot *''

Chenopodium atrovirens ''Chenopodium atrovirens'' is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names pinyon goosefoot and dark goosefoot. Distribution It is native to western North America, including southern Western Canada and most of t ...

'' – pinyon goosefoot, dark goosefoot *''

Chenopodium berlandieri ''Chenopodium berlandieri'', also known by the common names pitseed goosefoot, lamb's quarters (or lambsquarters), and ''huauzontle'' ( Nahuatl) is an annual herbaceous plant in the family Amaranthaceae. The species is widespread in North Amer ...

'' – pitseed goosefoot, huauzontle, lamb's quarters, lambsquarters *''

Chenopodium desiccatum ''Chenopodium desiccatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names aridland goosefoot and slimleaf goosefoot. It is native to parts of western North America, including sections of the Western United ...

'' – aridland goosefoot, slimleaf goosefoot *'' Chenopodium fremontii'' – Frémont's goosefoot *'' Chenopodium graveolens'' (or ''Dysphania graveolens'')† – fetid goosefoot *''

Chenopodium hians ''Chenopodium hians'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names hians goosefoot and gaping goosefoot. The Latin species name ''hians'' means "gaping". Distribution It is native to much of the western ...

'' – hians goosefoot, gaping goosefoot *'' Chenopodium humile''† – marshland goosefoot *''

Chenopodium incanum ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classifica ...

'' – mealy goosefoot *''

Chenopodium leptophyllum ''Chenopodium leptophyllum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name narrowleaf goosefoot. It is native to much of western North America, where it is reported from Alaska to Texas and northern Mexico, ...

'' – narrowleaf goosefoot *'' Chenopodium overi'' – Over's goosefoot *''

Chenopodium pratericola ''Chenopodium pratericola'' is a species of flowering plant in the Chenopodium, goosefoot family known by the common name desert goosefoot. It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, s ...

'' – desert goosefoot *'' Chenopodium salinum'' – Rocky Mountain goosefoot *'' Chenopodium simplex'' – mapleleaf goosefoot *''

Chenopodium subglabrum ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classifica ...

'' – smooth goosefoot *''

Chenopodium watsonii ''Chenopodium'' is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoots, which occur almost anywhere in the world. It is placed in the family Amaranthaceae in the APG II system; older classific ...

'' – Watson's goosefoot *''

Dysphania ambrosioides ''Dysphania ambrosioides'', formerly ''Chenopodium ambrosioides'', known as Jesuit's tea, Mexican-tea, ''payqu'' ''(paico)'', ''epazote'', ''mastruz'', or ''herba sanctæ Mariæ'', is an annual or short-lived perennial herb native to Central ...

''† – wormseed, Jesuit's tea, Mexican-tea, payqu, paico, epazote, mastruz, herba sanctæ Mariæ *'' Dysphania botrys''† – Jerusalem oak goosefoot, sticky goosefoot, feathered geranium *''

Grayia spinosa ''Grayia'' may refer to: * ''Grayia'' (snake), a genus of African water snakes * ''Grayia'' (plant), a genus of desert shrubs in the family Amaranthaceae {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' – hop sage, spiny hop sage *'' Halogeton glomeratus''† – saltlover, Aral barilla, and halogeton *''

Krascheninnikovia lanata ''Krascheninnikovia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae known as winterfat, so-called because it is a nutritious livestock forage. They are known from Eurasia and western North America. Th ...

'' – winterfat *''

Oxybasis chenopodioides ''Oxybasis chenopodioides'', (syn. ''Chenopodium chenopodioides'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common name low goosefoot. It is native to South America, but it is known in widespread parts of Africa, ...

'' (or ''Chenopodium chenopodioides'') – low goosefoot *''

Oxybasis rubra ''Oxybasis rubra''Susy Fuentes-Bazan, Pertti Uotila, Thomas Borsch: ''A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae).'' In: ''Willdenowia.'' Vol. 42, No. ...

'' (or ''Chenopodium rubrum'') – red goosefoot, coastblite goosefoot, on’-tǐm-pi-wa-tsǐp, on’-tǐm-pi-wa, on’-tǐm-pi-a-wa, on’-tǐm-pai-wa *'' Salicornia rubra'' – red swampfire *'' Salicornia utahensis'' – Utah swampfire *'' Suaeda nigra'' (formerly ''Suaeda moquinii'') – Mojave sea-blite, bush seepweed

Amaryllidaceae

*'' Allium atrorubens'' – dark red onion *'' Allium brandegeei'' – Brandegee's onion *'' Allium brevistylum'' – shortstyle onion *'' Allium lemmonii'' – Lemmon's onion *'' Allium nevadense'' – Nevada onion *'' Allium parvum'' – small onion *'' Allium passeyi'' – Passey's onion *'' Allium textile'' – prairie onion, textile onion

Anacardiaceae

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Rhus typhina ''Rhus typhina'', the staghorn sumac, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States, and the Appalachian M ...

'' – staghorn sumac

Apiaceae

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Angelica wheeleri ''Angelica wheeleri'' is a rare species of ''Angelica'', a perennial herb in the Apiaceae (carrot) family, endemic to the state of Utah in the United States. The common names for ''A. wheeleri'' are Utah angelica or Wheeler's angelica. ''A. whee ...

'' – Utah angelica *''

Conium maculatum ''Conium maculatum'', colloquially known as hemlock, poison hemlock or wild hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa. A hardy plant capable of living in a ...

''†‡ – hemlock, poison hemlock *'' Cymopterus basalticus'' – Intermountain wavewing *'' Cymopterus beckii'' – featherleaf springparsley, Beck springparsley, pinnate springparsley *'' Cymopterus evertii'' – Evert's springparsley, Evert's waferparsnip *'' Cymopterus globosus'' – globe springparsley *'' Lomatium ambiguum'' – Wyeth biscuitroot *'' Lomatium grayi'' – Gray's biscuitroot, Gray's lomatium, milfoil lomatium *'' Lomatium latilobum'' – Canyonlands lomatium, Canyonlands biscuitroot *'' Lomatium macrocarpum'' – bigseed lomatium, biscuit root, bigseed biscuitroot *'' Lomatium nevadense'' – Nevada biscuitroot *'' Lomatium nudicaule'' – pestle lomatium, barestem biscuitroot, Indian celery, Indian consumption plant *'' Lomatium triternatum'' – nineleaf biscuitroot

Apocynaceae

*'' Asclepias fascicularis'' – narrowleaf milkweed, Mexican whorled milkweed *'' Asclepias welshii'' – Welsh's milkweed *'' Cycladenia humilis'' – Sacramento waxydogbane *'' Cynanchum utahense'' – Utah swallow-wort, Utah vine milkweed

Asparagaceae

*'' Agave utahensis'' – Utah agave, Nevada agave, Kaibab agave *'' Androstephium breviflorum'' – pink funnel lily, small flowered androstephium *''

Camassia quamash ''Camassia quamash'', commonly known as camas, small camas, common camas, common camash or quamash, is a perennial herb. It is native to western North America in large areas of southern Canada and the northwestern United States. Description ...

'' – camas, small camas, common camas, common camash, quamash *'' Dipterostemon capitatus'' – blue dicks, purplehead, brodiaea *'' Eremocrinum albomarginatum'' – Utah solitaire lily, Intermountain false-wheatgrass, desert lily, lonely lily, sand lily *''

Yucca angustissima ''Yucca angustissima'', the narrowleaf yucca, is a plant in the family Agavaceae, known as the "narrow-leaved yucca." It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental. ''Yucca angustissima'' is a low-ly ...

'' – narrowleaf yucca *''

Yucca elata ''Yucca elata'' is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, N ...

'' – soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, palmella *'' Yucca sterilis'' *'' Yucca utahensis''

Asteraceae

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Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus ''Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name rayless goldenhead. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it occurs in southern California, southern Nevada, south ...

'' – rayless goldenhead *'' Acourtia wrightii'' – brownfoot *'' Agoseris grandiflora'' – California dandelion, bigflower agoseris, grassland agoseris *'' Agoseris retrorsa'' – spearleaf agoseris, spearleaf mountain dandelion *''

Ambrosia acanthicarpa ''Ambrosia acanthicarpa'' is a North American species of bristly annual plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus ''Ambrosia (plant), Ambrosia'' are called ragweeds. The species has common names including flatspine bur ragweed, Hooker ...

''† – flatspine bur ragweed, Hooker's bur-ragweed, annual burrweed, annual bur-sage, western sand-bur *''

Ambrosia artemisiifolia ''Ambrosia artemisiifolia'', with the common names common ragweed, annual ragweed, and low ragweed, is a species of the genus '' Ambrosia'' native to regions of the Americas. Taxonomy The species name, ''artemisiifolia'', is given because the le ...

''† – common ragweed, annual ragweed, low ragweed, American wormwood, bitterweed, blackweed, carrot weed, hay fever weed, Roman wormwood, short ragweed, stammerwort, stickweed, tassel weed *'' Ambrosia confertiflora'' – weakleaf bur ragweed *''

Ambrosia dumosa ''Ambrosia dumosa'', the burro-weed or white bursage, a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is a common constituent of the creosote-bush scrub community throughout the Mojave desert of California, Nevada, and Utah and ...

'' – burro-weed, white bursage *'' Ambrosia eriocentra'' – woolly bursage, woollyfruit burr ragweed *''

Ambrosia psilostachya ''Ambrosia psilostachya'' is a species of ragweed known by the common names Cuman ragweed and perennial ragweed, and western ragweed. Distribution and habitat The plant is widespread across much of North America (United States, Canada, and north ...

'' – Cuman ragweed and perennial ragweed, western ragweed *''

Ambrosia salsola ''Ambrosia salsola'', commonly called cheesebush, winged ragweed, burrobush, white burrobrush, and desert pearl, is a species of perennial shrub in the family Asteraceae native to deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico ...

'' (or ''Hymenoclea salsola'') – cheesebush, winged ragweed, burrobush, white burrobrush, desert pearl *'' Ambrosia sandersonii'' (or ''Hymenoclea sandersonii'') – Sanderson's burrobrush *''

Ambrosia tomentosa ''Ambrosia tomentosa'', the skeletonleaf bur ragweed, silverleaf povertyweed, or skeleton-leaf bursage, is a North American species of perennial plants in the family Asteraceae. Skeletonleaf bur ragweed is native to the west-central part of the ...

'' – skeletonleaf bur ragweed, silverleaf povertyweed, skeleton-leaf bursage *''

Ambrosia trifida ''Ambrosia trifida'', the giant ragweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Distribution It is present in Europe a ...

'' – giant ragweed, great ragweed, Texan great ragweed, giant ragweed, tall ragweed, blood ragweed, perennial ragweed, horseweed, buffaloweed, kinghead *'' Amphipappus fremontii'' – chaffbush, eytelia *'' Arnica gracilis'' – Smallhead arnica *'' Arnica rydbergii'' – Rydberg's arnica, subalpine arnica, subalpine leopardbane *''

Artemisia arbuscula ''Artemisia arbuscula'' is a North American species of sagebrush known by the common names little sagebrush, low sagebrush, or black sagebrush. It is native to the western United States from Washington, Oregon, and California east as far as Color ...

'' – little sagebrush, low sagebrush, black sagebrush *''

Artemisia bigelovii ''Artemisia bigelovii'' is a North American species of sagebrush known by the common name Bigelow sagebrush or flat sagebrush. It grows in the deserts of the southwestern United States. Distribution It is native to California ( Inyo + San Berna ...

'' – Bigelow sagebrush, flat sagebrush *''

Artemisia cana ''Artemisia cana'' is a species of sagebrush native to western and central North America, a member of the sunflower family. It is known by many common names, including silver sagebrush, sticky sagebrush, silver wormwood, hoary sagebrush, and dw ...

'' – silver sagebrush, sticky sagebrush, silver wormwood, hoary sagebrush, dwarf sagebrush *''

Artemisia michauxiana ''Artemisia michauxiana'' is a North American species of wormwood in the sunflower family. It is known by the common names Michaux's wormwood and lemon sagewort. It is native to the western United States and Canada. It grows in mountain talus ...

'' – Michaux's wormwood, lemon sagewort *''

Artemisia nova ''Artemisia nova'' is a North American species of sagebrush, known by the common name black sagebrush. It is "one of the most common shrubs in the western United States". Distribution and habitat The native range of ''Artemisia nova'' is from th ...

'' – black sagebrush *''

Artemisia pygmaea ''Artemisia pygmaea'' is a North American species of Artemisia (plant), sagebrush in the Asteraceae, aster family known by the common name pygmy sagebrush. Description ''Artemisia pygmaea'' is a small, cushion-like shrub growing up to about 20 c ...

'' – pygmy sagebrush *''

Artemisia spinescens ''Artemisia spinescens'' is a North American species of sagebrush in the sunflower family, known by the common name budsage. Many sources treat the species separately from genus '' Artemisia'' and named ''Picrothamnus desertorum''. This separat ...

'' – budsage, bud sagebrush *''

Artemisia tridentata ''Artemisia tridentata'', commonly called big sagebrush,MacKay, Pam (2013), ''Mojave Desert Wildflowers'', 2nd ed., , p. 264. Great Basin sagebrush or (locally) simply sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in ari ...

'' – big sagebrush, Great Basin sagebrush, sagebrush *''

Baccharis salicifolia ''Baccharis salicifolia'' is a blooming shrub native to the sage scrub community and desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, as well as parts of South America. Its usual common name is mule fat;Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam M ...

'' – mule fat, seepwillow, water-wally *''

Baileya multiradiata ''Baileya multiradiata'' is a North American species of sun-loving wildflowers native to the deserts of northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. It has been found in the States of Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Aguascalientes, ...

'' – desert marigold *'' Brickellia microphylla'' – littleleaf brickellbush *''

Carduus nutans ''Carduus nutans'', with the common names musk thistle, nodding thistle, and nodding plumeless thistle, is a biennial plant in the daisy and sunflower family Asteraceae. It is native to regions of Eurasia. Description ''Carduus nutans'' is usual ...

''†‡ – musk thistle, nodding thistle, nodding plumeless thistle *''

Centaurea calcitrapa ''Centaurea calcitrapa'' is a species of flowering plant known by several common names, including red star-thistle and purple star thistle. It is native to Europe but is rarely found there, it is known across the globe as an introduced species an ...

''†‡ – red star-thistle, purple starthistle *''

Centaurea diffusa ''Centaurea diffusa'', also known as diffuse knapweed, white knapweed or tumble knapweed, is a member of the genus ''Centaurea'' in the family Asteraceae. This species is common throughout western North America but is not actually native to the ...

''†‡ – diffuse knapweed, white knapweed, tumble knapweed *''

Centaurea solstitialis ''Centaurea solstitialis'', the yellow star-thistle, is a species of thorny plant in the genus '' Centaurea'', which is part of the family Asteraceae. A winter annual, it is native to the Mediterranean Basin region and invasive in many other ...

''†‡ – yellow star-thistle, golden starthistle, yellow cockspur, St. Barnaby's thistle, Barnaby thistle *''

Centaurea stoebe ''Centaurea stoebe'', the spotted knapweed or panicled knapweed, is a species of ''Centaurea'' native to eastern Europe, although it has spread to North America, where it is considered an invasive species. It forms a tumbleweed, helping to incre ...

''†‡ – spotted knapweed, panicled knapweed *''

Centaurea virgata ''Centaurea virgata'' is a species of ''Centaurea''. It is native to Western Asia Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region of Asia, as defined by some academics, UN bodies and ...

''†‡ – squarrose knapweed *''

Chaenactis stevioides ''Chaenactis stevioides'', with the common names Esteve's pincushion and desert pincushion, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is also sometimes called false yarrow or broad-leaved Chaenactis. Description ''Chaenactis stevio ...

'' – Esteve's pincushion, desert pincushion *'' Chaetopappa ericoides'' – rose heath, heath-leaved chaetopappa *''

Chondrilla juncea ''Chondrilla juncea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by a number of common names, including rush skeletonweed, gum succory, devil's grass, and nakedweed. The plant is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but ...

''†‡ – rush skeletonweed, gum succory, devil's grass, nakedweed *'' Chrysothamnus depressus'' – long-flowered rabbitbrush *'' Chrysothamnus greenei'' – Greene's rabbitbrush *'' Chrysothamnus scopulorum'' – Grand Canyon glowweed, evening-daisy *''

Chrysothamnus stylosus ''Chrysothamnus stylosus'', called pillar false gumweed, or resinbush, is a species of flowering plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Arizona and Utah in the southwestern United States The United St ...

'' – pillar false gumweed, resinbush *''

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus ''Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus'' is a species of shrub in the family Asteraceae of the Americas known by the common names yellow rabbitbrush and green rabbitbrush. Description ''Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus'' grows up to about in height, with s ...

'' – yellow rabbitbrush, green rabbitbrush *''

Cirsium arvense ''Cirsium arvense'' is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native throughout Europe and western Asia, northern Africa and widely introduced elsewhere.Joint Nature Conservation Committee''Cirsium arvense'' The standa ...

''†‡ – creeping thistle, Canada thistle, field thistle *'' Cirsium barnebyi'' – Barneby's thistle *'' Cirsium eatonii'' – Eaton's thistle, mountaintop thistle *'' Cirsium rydbergii'' – alcove thistle, Rydberg's thistle *'' Crepis modocensis'' – Modoc hawksbeard *'' Encelia nutans'' – noddinghead, nodding sunray *'' Encelia resinifera'' – sticky brittlebush, button brittlebush *'' Enceliopsis argophylla'' – silverleaf sunray, nakedstem sunray, naked-stemmed daisy *'' Ericameria crispa'' – crisped goldenbush *''

Ericameria lignumviridis ''Ericameria lignumviridis,'' common name Greenwood's goldenbush or heath-goldenrod, is a plant species endemic to Sevier County, Utah. It grows in riparian areas alongside ''Urtica dioica, Salix laevigata'' and other riverbank plants. ''Erica ...

'' – Greenwood's goldenbush, heath-goldenrod *'' Ericameria obovata'' – Rydberg's goldenbush *'' Ericameria watsonii'' – Watson's goldenbush *'' Ericameria zionis'' – subalpine goldenbush, cedar breaks goldenbush *'' Erigeron arenarioides'' – sand fleabane, Wasatch fleabane *'' Erigeron canaani'' – Abajo fleabane *'' Erigeron clokeyi'' – Clokey's fleabane, Clokey's daisy *'' Erigeron cronquistii'' – Cronquist's fleabane *'' Erigeron garrettii'' – Garrett's fleabane *'' Erigeron goodrichii'' – Uinta Mountain fleabane *'' Erigeron kachinensis'' – Kachina fleabane, Kachina daisy *'' Erigeron maguirei'' – Maguire daisy, Maguire's fleabane *'' Erigeron mancus'' – depauperate fleabane, imperfect fleabane *'' Erigeron melanocephalus'' – black-headed fleabane *'' Erigeron religiosus'' – Clear Creek fleabane *'' Erigeron sionis'' – Zion fleabane *''

Erigeron untermannii ''Erigeron untermannii'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Indian Canyon fleabane. It is native to the western United States, only in the state of Utah. ''Erigeron untermannii'' grow ...

'' – Indian Canyon fleabane *'' Eriophyllum lanatum'' – common woolly sunflower, Oregon sunshine *''

Gaillardia arizonica ''Gaillardia arizonica'', the Arizonia blanketflower, is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to northwestern Mexico ( Sonora) and the southwestern United States (Arizona, southern Nevada, southern Utah Uta ...

'' – Arizonia blanketflower *'' Gaillardia parryi'' – Parry's blanketflower *'' Gutierrezia petradoria'' – San Pedro snakeweed, goldenrod snakeweed *''

Gutierrezia sarothrae ''Gutierrezia sarothrae'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names broom snakeweed, broomweed, snakeweed, and matchweed. It is a subshrub native to much of the western half of North America, from western ...

'' (or ''Gutierrezia pomariensis'') – broom snakeweed, broomweed, snakeweed, matchweed *'' Helianthus paradoxus'' – paradox sunflower, puzzle sunflower, Pecos sunflower *'' Heliomeris soliceps'' – tropical false goldeneye, paria sunflower *'' Herrickia kingii'' – King's serpentweed, King's aster *'' Herrickia wasatchensis'' – Wasatch aster *'' Heterotheca jonesii'' – Jones's goldenaster *'' Hymenoxys biennis'' *'' Hymenoxys bigelovii'' – Bigelow's rubberweed *'' Hymenoxys subintegra'' – Arizona rubberweed *''

Isocoma humilis ''Isocoma humilis'', common names Zion goldenbush or Zion jimmyweed, is a rare North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in southern Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the W ...

'' – Zion goldenbush, Zion jimmyweed *''

Isocoma rusbyi ''Isocoma rusbyi'', the Rusby's goldenbush, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It has been found in the States of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado in the southwestern United States. Some of the populations lie ...

'' – Rusby's goldenbush *'' Layia platyglossa'' – coastal tidytips *'' Lepidospartum latisquamum'' – Nevada broomsage *''

Leucanthemum vulgare ''Leucanthemum vulgare'', commonly known as the ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy, dog daisy, marguerite (french: Marguerite commune, "common marguerite") and other common names, is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions ...

''†‡ – ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy, dog daisy, field daisy, Marguerite, moon daisy, moon-penny, poor-land penny, poverty daisy, white daisy *'' Lorandersonia baileyi'' – Bailey's rabbitbrush *'' Lorandersonia linifolia'' – rabbitbush *''

Lygodesmia doloresensis ''Lygodesmia doloresensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Dolores River skeletonplant. It is native to a small area of Colorado and neighboring Utah in the United States.

'' – Dolores River skeletonplant *''

Lygodesmia grandiflora ''Lygodesmia grandiflora'', the largeflower skeletonplant or showy rushpink, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United States.Canyon Country Wildflowers, Damian ...

'' – largeflower skeletonplant, showy rushpink *''

Madia gracilis ''Madia gracilis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names grassy tarweed, slender tarweed, and gumweed madia. Description ''Madia gracilis'' is vstem is branching, and hairy and glandular in texture. T ...

'' – grassy tarweed, slender tarweed, gumweed madia *''

Onopordum acanthium ''Onopordum acanthium'' (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle, not to be confused with ''Cirsium vulgare'' - spear thistle, which is also known as Scotch or Scottish thistle and is the national flower of Scotland. Spear thistle is nat ...

''†‡ – cotton thistle, Scotch thistle, Scottish thistle *'' Packera castoreus'' – Beaver Mountain groundsel, Beaver Mountain ragwort *'' Packera malmstenii'' – Podunk ragwort *'' Packera musiniensis'' – Musinea ragwort, Musinea groundsel *'' Peucephyllum schottii'' – pygmy cedar, Schott's pygmy cedar, desert fir, desert pine *'' Pyrrocoma apargioides'' – alpineflames *'' Pyrrocoma clementis'' – tranquil goldenweed *''

Rafinesquia neomexicana ''Rafinesquia neomexicana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Common names include desert chicory, plumeseed, or New Mexico plumeseed. It has white showy flowers, milky sap, and weak, zigzag stems, that may grow up throug ...

'' – desert chicory, plumeseed, New Mexico plumeseed *''

Rhaponticum repens ''Rhaponticum repens'', synonym ''Acroptilon repens'', with the common name Russian knapweed, is a bushy rhizomatous perennial, up to 80 cm tall. Stems and leaves are finely arachnoid-tomentose becoming glabrous and green with age. The rosette le ...

'' (or ''Acroptilon repens'')†‡ – Russian knapweed *'' Scorzonera laciniata''†‡ – mediterranean serpent-root *'' Senecio bigelovii'' – nodding groundsel, nodding ragwort *'' Senecio fremontii'' – dwarf mountain ragwort *''

Stenotus armerioides ''Stenotus armerioides'', the thrift mock goldenweed, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. The plant is native to areas of the Western United States and to Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, ...

'' – thrift mock goldenweed *'' Stylocline intertexta'' – Morefield's neststraw, Mojave neststraw *'' Stylocline psilocarphoides'' – baretwig neststraw, Peck's neststraw *'' Thelesperma pubescens'' – hairy greenthread, Uinta greenthread *''

Townsendia aprica ''Townsendia aprica'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Last Chance Townsend daisy. It is endemism, endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known from three counties. It faces a numbe ...

'' – Last Chance Townsend daisy *''

Wyethia arizonica ''Wyethia arizonica'', the Arizona mule's ears, is a plant species native to Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. It grows in meadows in coniferous forests at elevations of . ''Wyethia arizonica'' is a perennial herb with a large taproot ...

'' – Arizona mule's ears *'' Xanthisma paradoxum'' *'' Xylorhiza confertifolia'' – Henrieville woody-aster *'' Xylorhiza cronquistii'' – Cronquist's woody-aster

Boraginaceae

*'' Amsinckia tessellata'' – bristly fiddleneck, tessellate fiddleneck, checker fiddleneck, devil's lettuce *'' Cryptantha virginensis'' – Virgin River cryptantha *''

Cynoglossum officinale ''Cynoglossum officinale'' (houndstongue, houndstooth, dog's tongue, gypsy flower, and rats and mice due to its smell) is a herbaceous plant of the family Boraginaceae. Description It can be either annual or biennial. Leaves are greyish and so ...

''†‡ – houndstongue, houndstooth, dog's tongue, gypsy flower, rats and mice *''

Echium vulgare ''Echium vulgare'', known as viper's bugloss and blueweed,Dickinson, T.; Metsger, D.; Bull, J.; & Dickinson, R. (2004) ROM Field Guide to Wildflowers of Ontario. Toronto:Royal Ontario Museum, p. 203. is a species of flowering plant in the borag ...

''†‡ – viper's bugloss, blueweed *'' Eriodictyon angustifolium'' – narrowleaf yerba santa *'' Hackelia micrantha'' – Jessica sticktight, Jessica's stickseed *'' Mertensia ciliata'' – tall fringed bluebells, mountain bluebells, streamside bluebells *'' Mertensia lanceolata'' – prairie bluebells, narrow-leaved languid lady, lance-leaved bluebells, lance-leaved lungwort *''

Nemophila parviflora ''Nemophila parviflora'', the smallflower nemophila, small-flowered nemophila or oak-leaved nemophila, is a dicot in the borage family, Boraginaceae, in the waterleaf subfamily, Hydrophylloideae. The plant is native to the low to moderate elevat ...

'' – smallflower nemophila, small-flowered nemophila, oak-leaved nemophila *'' Phacelia anelsonii'' – Aven Nelson's phacelia *'' Phacelia argillacea'' – clay phacelia, Atwood's phacelia *'' Phacelia austromontana'' – Southern Sierra phacelia *'' Phacelia curvipes'' – Washoe phacelia, Washoe scorpionweed *'' Phacelia mammillarensis'' – Nipple Beach phacelia *''

Tiquilia canescens ''Tiquilia canescens'', the woody crinklemat or shrubby tiquilia, is a perennial, shrub in mid- to lower-elevation desert regions in the family Boraginaceae - Borage or the Forget-me-nots. It is found in the southwestern United States and North ...

'' – woody crinklemat, shrubby tiquilia *'' Phacelia argillacea'' – clay phacelia and Atwood's phacelia

Brassicaceae

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Alliaria petiolata ''Alliaria petiolata'', or garlic mustard, is a biennial flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, north-western Africa, Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern Sc ...

''†‡ – jack-by-the-hedge, garlic mustard, garlic root, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, jack-in-the-bush, penny hedge, poor man's mustard *'' Boechera falcatoria'' – Grouse Creek rockcress *'' Boechera pulchra'' (or ''Arabis pulchra'') – beautiful rockcress *'' Brassica elongata''†‡ – elongated mustard, long-stalked rape *''

Brassica tournefortii ''Brassica tournefortii'' is a species of plant known by the common names Asian mustard, pale cabbage, African mustard, and Sahara mustard, and is well known as an invasive species, especially in California. The plant is generally similar to ot ...

''†‡ – Asian mustard, pale cabbage, African mustard, Sahara mustard *'' Caulanthus cooperi'' – Cooper's wild cabbage *'' Caulanthus crassicaulis'' – thickstem wild cabbage *'' Caulanthus major'' – slender wild cabbage *'' Caulanthus pilosus'' – hairy wild cabbage, chocolate drops *''

Descurainia paradisa ''Descurainia paradisa'' is a plant species native to eastern and northern California, southeastern Oregon, Box Elder County in northwestern Utah, and most of Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western ...

'' *'' Draba burkei'' – snowbasin draba, Burke's draba *'' Draba ramulosa'' – Mt. Belknap draba, Tushar Mountain draba *'' Glaucocarpum suffrutescens'' (also ''Hesperidanthus suffrutescens'' and ''Schoenocrambe suffrutescens'') – Uinta Basin waxfruit, waxfruit mustard, toad-flax cress, shrubby reed-mustard *''

Hesperis matronalis ''Hesperis matronalis'' is an herbaceous plant species in the family Brassicaceae. It has numerous common names, including dame's rocket, damask-violet, dame's-violet, dames-wort, dame's gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen's gilliflo ...

''†‡ – dame's rocket, damask-violet, dame's-violet, dames-wort, dame's gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen's gilliflower, rogue's gilliflower, summer lilac, sweet rocket, mother-of-the-evening, winter gilliflower *''

Isatis tinctoria ''Isatis tinctoria'', also called woad (), dyer's woad, or glastum, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae (the mustard family) with a documented history of use as a blue dye and medicinal plant. Its genus name, Isatis, derives from ...

''†‡ – woad, dyer's woad, glastum, Asp of Jerusalem *'' Lepidium barnebyanum'' – Barneby's pepperweed, Barneby's pepper-grass, Barneby's ridge-cress *''

Lepidium dictyotum ''Lepidium dictyotum'' is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names alkali pepperweed and alkali pepperwort. It is native to the far western United States. It grows in dry saline and alkaline soils, such as dr ...

'' – alkali pepperweed, alkali pepperwort *'' Lepidium draba'' (or ''Cardaria draba'')†‡ – whitetop, hoary cress, Thanet cress *'' Lepidium fremontii'' – desert pepperweed *''

Lepidium latifolium ''Lepidium latifolium'', known by several common names including perennial pepperweed, broadleaved pepperweed, pepperwort, or peppergrass, dittander, dittany, and tall whitetop, is a perennial plant that is a member of the mustard and cabbage fa ...

''†‡ – perennial pepperweed, broadleaved pepperweed, pepperwort, or peppergrass, dittander, dittany, tall whitetop *'' Lepidium montanum'' – mountain pepperweed, mountain peppergrass, mountain pepperwort, mountain pepperplant *'' Lepidium nanum'' – dwarf pepperweed *'' Lepidium ostleri'' – Ostler peppergrass *''

Physaria chambersii ''Physaria chambersii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common name Chambers' twinpod. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows in desert woodland and plateau habitat. It is a perennia ...

'' – Chambers' twinpod *''

Physaria fendleri ''Physaria fendleri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by several common names, including Fendler's bladderpod, popweed, and lesquerella. Distribution The plant is native to the Southwestern United States and nor ...

'' – Fendler's bladderpod, popweed, lesquerella *''

Physaria hemiphysaria ''Physaria hemiphysaria'' (formerly ''Lesquerella hemiphysaria'') is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names Intermountain bladderpod and skyline bladderpod. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where i ...

'' – Intermountain bladderpod, skyline bladderpod, Tavaputs bladderpod, Range Creek bladderpod *''

Physaria lepidota ''Physaria lepidota'', the Kane County twinpod, is a plant species endemic to Utah. It is known only from Kane, Washington, and Garfield Counties in the southern part of the state. It grows on rocky slopes and outcrops, and sometimes in disturb ...

'' – Kane County twinpod *'' Physaria navajoensis'' – Navajo twinpod, Navajo bladderpod *'' Physaria parvula'' – pygmy bladderpod *'' Physaria repanda'' – Indian Canyon twinpod *'' Physaria tumulosa'' (or ''Lesquerella tumulosa'') – Kodachrome bladderpod *'' Schoenocrambe argillacea'' – clay reed-mustard, Uinta Basin plainsmustard, clay thelypody *''

Schoenocrambe barnebyi ''Schoenocrambe barnebyi'' ( syn. ''Hesperidanthus barnebyi'') is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names Barneby reed-mustard, Syes Butte plainsmustard, and Barneby thelypody. It is endemic to Utah in the ...

'' – Barneby reed-mustard, Syes Butte plainsmustard, Barneby thelypody *'' Smelowskia americana'' – alpine smelowskia, Siberian smelowskia, American false candytuft *'' Thelypodium laxiflorum'' – droopflower thelypody *'' Thelypodium milleflorum'' – manyflower thelypody, many-flowered thelypodium

Cactaceae

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Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa ''Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa'', commonly referred to as buckhorn cholla, is a cholla native to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Colorado Deserts of North America. Along with '' Cylindropuntia bigelovii'' (the "teddy bear" cholla), it is the most com ...

'' – buckhorn cholla *''

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa ''Cylindropuntia echinocarpa'' is a species of cactus known by the common names silver cholla, golden cholla, and Wiggins' cholla. It was formerly named ''Opuntia echinocarpa''.

'' – silver cholla, golden cholla, Wiggins' cholla *''

Cylindropuntia imbricata ''Cylindropuntia imbricata'', the cane cholla (walking stick cholla, tree cholla, or chainlink cactus), is a cactus found in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, including some cooler regions in comparison to many other cacti. It ...

'' – cane cholla, walking stick cholla, tree cholla, chainlink cactus *'' Echinocereus relictus'' *''

Ferocactus cylindraceus ''Ferocactus cylindraceus'' is a species of barrel cactus which is known by several common names, including California barrel cactus, Desert barrel cactus, and miner's compass. It was first described by George Engelmann in 1853. Distribution and ...

'' – California barrel cactus, desert barrel cactus, miner's compass *'' Grusonia pulchella'' – sagebrush cholla *''

Mammillaria tetrancistra ''Cochemiea tetrancistra'' is a species of fishhook cactus known by the common name common fishhook cactus. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it grows in a variety of dese ...

'' – common fishhook cactus *''

Opuntia aurea ''Opuntia aurea'' is a cactus that grows in Southern Utah and perhaps Northern Arizona. It is prostrate and forms irregularly sprawling plants to about three feet across. Occasionally a single pad may grow upright. The cactus can be spineless, ...

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Opuntia basilaris ''Opuntia basilaris'', the beavertail cactus or beavertail pricklypear, is a cactus species found in the southwest United States. It occurs mostly in the Mojave, Anza-Borrego, and Colorado Deserts, as well as in the Colorado Plateau and northw ...

'' – beavertail cactus, beavertail pricklypear *''

Opuntia engelmannii ''Opuntia engelmannii'' is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear in ...

'' – cow's tongue cactus, cow tongue prickly pear, desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear, Texas prickly pear, nopal, abrojo, joconostle, vela de coyote *'' Opuntia pinkavae'' – Bulrush Canyon prickly-pear, Pinkava's pricklypear *''

Pediocactus despainii ''Pediocactus despainii'' is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Despain's cactus and San Rafael cactus. It is endemic to the state of Utah in the United States, where it is limited to the San Rafael Swell in Emery County, Utah.

'' – Despain's cactus, San Rafael cactus *''

Pediocactus sileri ''Pediocactus sileri'' is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Siler's pincushion cactus and gypsum cactus (or gypsum plains cactus). It is native to southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona in the United States. It is limited to ...

'' – Siler's pincushion cactus, gypsum cactus, gypsum plains cactus *'' Pediocactus winkleri'' – Winkler's cactus, Winkler's pincushion cactus *'' Sclerocactus brevispinus'' – Pariette cactus *''

Sclerocactus sileri ''Sclerocactus sileri'', the Siler fishhook cactus, is a rare and very small cactus found mostly in mineral-rich desert areas of intermediate elevations, notably in the American states of Utah, Nevada, and northern Arizona. Description ''Scler ...

'' – Siler fishhook cactus *''

Sclerocactus wetlandicus ''Sclerocactus wetlandicus'' is a rare species of cactus known by the common name Uinta Basin hookless cactus. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from the Uinta Basin.Sclerocactus wrightiae ''Sclerocactus wrightiae'' is a rare species of cactus known by the common names Wright's little barrel cactus and Wright's fishhook cactus. Dr. Lyman Benson named this species for North American cactus expert Dorde Wright Woodruff, who initiall ...

'' – Wright's little barrel cactus, Wright's fishhook cactus

Cannabaceae

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Celtis occidentalis ''Celtis occidentalis'', commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. It is a moderately long-l ...

'' – common hackberry, nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, American hackberry

Caprifoliaceae

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Symphoricarpos longiflorus ''Symphoricarpos longiflorus'' is a species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family known by the common names desert snowberry and fragrant snowberry. It is native to the western United States from the Great Basin to western ...

'' – desert snowberry, fragrant snowberry *''

Symphoricarpos occidentalis ''Symphoricarpos occidentalis'', commonly called western snowberry or wolfberry, is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family. Wolfberry is not to be confused with '' Lycium chinense'' and '' L. barbarum'' (goji), which are al ...

'' – western snowberry, wolfberry *''

Symphoricarpos oreophilus ''Symphoricarpos oreophilus'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, or honeysuckle family, known by the common name mountain snowberry. It has a wide distribution in western Canada, the United States, and northwes ...

'' – mountain snowberry *'' Symphoricarpos rotundifolius'' – round-leaved snowberry

Caryophyllaceae

*'' Achyronychia cooperi'' – onyxflower, frost-mat *'' Arenaria macradenia'' – Mojave sandwort, desert sandwort *'' Minuartia pusilla'' – annual sandwort, dwarf stitchwort *'' Minuartia stricta'' – bog stitchwort, Teesdale sandwort, rock sandwort *''

Silene verecunda ''Silene verecunda'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name San Francisco campion. It is native to western North America, particularly California and Baja California, as well as Nevada and Utah. It ...

'' – San Francisco campion

Cleomaceae

*'' Wislizenia refracta'' – jackass-clover, spectacle fruit

Convolvulaceae

*'' Calystegia longipes'' – Paiute false bindweed *''

Convolvulus ''Convolvulus'' is a genus of about 200 to 250''Convolvulus''.
Flora of China.

'' spp.†‡ – bindweed, morning glory, wild morning glory *''

Cuscuta salina ''Cuscuta salina'' is a species of dodder known by the English name salt marsh dodder and is a native plant of western North America. The habitat includes coastal tidal wetlands in California, as well as saline habitats away from the coast, such ...

'' – salt marsh dodder

Cupressaceae

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Juniperus communis ''Juniperus communis'', the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae. An evergreen conifer, it has the largest geographical range of any woody plant, with a circumpolar distribution throughout the coo ...

'' – common juniper *''

Juniperus osteosperma ''Juniperus osteosperma'' (Utah juniper; syn. ''J. utahensis'') is a shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States. Description The plant reaches , rarely to 9 m, tall. The shoots are fairly thick compared to most junipers, in ...

'' (or ''Juniperus utahensis'') – Utah juniper *''

Juniperus scopulorum ''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States. Description ''Juniperus scopulorum'' is a small evergreen conifer ...

'' – Rocky Mountain juniper

Cyperaceae

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Carex cusickii ''Carex cusickii'' is a species of sedge known by the common name Cusick's sedge. It is native to Northwestern North America from British Columbia to California, and in Utah, where it can be found in several types of wet habitat, such as marshes ...

'' – Cusick's sedge *'' Carex luzulina'' – woodrush sedge *'' Carex multicostata'' – manyrib sedge *'' Carex simulata'' – analogue sedge *'' Carex spectabilis'' – showy sedge *'' Carex specuicola'' – Navajo sedge *''

Carex straminiformis ''Carex straminiformis'' is a species of sedge known by the common name Shasta sedge. Description ''Carex straminiformis'' produces dense clumps of stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall with leaves up to about 25 centimeters long. The inflorescence is ...

'' – Shasta sedge *'' Fimbristylis thermalis'' – hot springs fimbry *''

Kobresia sibirica ''Kobresia sibirica'', the Siberian bog sedge, is a plant species known from arctic and alpine tundra in Siberia, the Russian Far East, Alaska, Yukon, the Canadian Northwest Territories, Nunavut, British Columbia, Colorado (several counties in ...

'' – Siberian bog sedge

Elaeagnaceae

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Elaeagnus angustifolia ''Elaeagnus angustifolia'', commonly called Russian olive, silver berry, oleaster, or wild olive, is a species of ''Elaeagnus'', native to western and central Asia, Iran, from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey, parts of Pakistan and parts of ...

''†‡ – Russian olive, silver berry, oleaster, wild olive *''

Shepherdia argentea ''Shepherdia argentea'', commonly called silver buffaloberry, bull berry, or thorny buffaloberry, is a species of ''Shepherdia'' in the Oleaster family. It is native to central and western North America, from the Prairie Provinces of Canada (Al ...

'' – silver buffaloberry, bull berry, thorny buffaloberry

Ephedraceae

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Ephedra aspera ''Ephedra aspera'' is a species of ''Ephedra'' known by the common names rough jointfir, boundary ephedra, and pitamoreal. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Texas and parts of northern Mexico as far south as Zacate ...

'' – rough jointfir, boundary ephedra, pitamoreal *''

Ephedra cutleri ''Ephedra cutleri'', the Navajo ephedra or Cutler's jointfir, is a species of ''Ephedra'' that is native to the Southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming). ; Description The rhizomatous shrubs form ere ...

'' – Navajo ephedra, Cutler's jointfir *''

Ephedra fasciculata ''Ephedra fasciculata'' is a species of plant in the Ephedraceae family. Common names are Arizona ephedra, Arizona jointfir, and desert Mormon-tea. Distribution The plant is found in the Mojave Desert and Colorado Desert of California, the S ...

'' – Arizona ephedra, Arizona jointfir, desert Mormon-tea *'' Ephedra nevadensis'' – Nevada ephedra *''

Ephedra torreyana ''Ephedra torreyana'', with common names Torrey's jointfir or Torrey's Mormon tea, is a species of ''Ephedra'' that is native to the deserts and scrublands of the Southwestern United States (Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) and ...

'' – Torrey's jointfir, Torrey's Mormon tea *''

Ephedra viridis ''Ephedra viridis'', known by the common names green Mormon tea, green ephedra, and Indian tea, is a species of ''Ephedra''. It is indigenous to the Western United States, where it is a member of varied scrub, woodland, desert, and open habitats. ...

'' – green Mormon tea, green ephedra, Indian tea

Ericaceae

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Arctostaphylos pungens ''Arctostaphylos pungens'', with the common name pointleaf manzanita, is a species of manzanita. It is native to the Southwestern United States and to northern and central Mexico, where it grows in chaparral and woodland habitats, and on desert ...

'' – pointleaf manzanita *'' Chimaphila menziesii'' – little prince's pine, Little Pipsissewa

Euphorbiaceae

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Croton californicus ''Croton californicus'' is a species of croton known by the common name California croton. This plant is native to California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Baja California, where it grows in the deserts and along the coastline. This plant is a pe ...

'' – California croton *'' Euphorbia albomarginata'' (formerly ''Chamaesyce albomarginata'') – whitemargin sandmat, rattlesnake weed *''

Euphorbia esula ''Euphorbia esula'', commonly known as green spurge or leafy spurge, is a species of spurge native to central and southern Europe (north to England, the Netherlands, and Germany), and eastward through most of Asia north of the Himalaya to Korea a ...

''†‡ – green spurge, leafy spurge *''

Euphorbia myrsinites ''Euphorbia myrsinites'', the myrtle spurge, blue spurge, or broad-leaved glaucous-spurge, is a succulent species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. Distribution The plant is native to southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, from ...

''†‡ – myrtle spurge, blue spurge, broad-leaved glaucous-spurge

Fabaceae

*'' Alhagi maurorum''†‡ – camelthorn, camelthorn-bush, Caspian manna, Persian mannaplant *'' Astragalus ampullarioides'' – Shivwits milkvetch *'' Astragalus anserinus'' – Goose Creek milkvetch *'' Astragalus desereticus'' – Deseret milkvetch *'' Astragalus equisolensis'' – horseshoe milkvetch *'' Astragalus filipes'' – basalt milkvetch *'' Astragalus flavus'' – yellow milkvetch *'' Astragalus holmgreniorum'' – Holmgren milkvetch, paradox milkvetch *'' Astragalus iselyi'' – Isely's milkvetch *''

Astragalus lentiginosus ''Astragalus lentiginosus'' is a species of legume native to western North America where it grows in a range of habitats. Common names include spotted locoweed page 752 and freckled milkvetch. There are a great number of wild varieties. The flow ...

'' – spotted locoweed, freckled milkvetch *'' Astragalus loanus'' – Glenwood milkvetch *'' Astragalus oophorus'' – egg milkvetch *'' Astragalus montii'' – heliotrope milkvetch *'' Astragalus wetherillii'' – Wetherill's milkvetch *'' Astragalus zionis'' – Zion milkvetch *''

Cercis occidentalis ''Cercis occidentalis'', the western redbud or California redbud (syn. ''Cercis orbiculata'' — Greene), is a small tree or shrub in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is found across the American Southwest, from California to Utah and Arizona. I ...

'' – western redbud, California redbud *''

Cytisus scoparius ''Cytisus scoparius'' ( syn. ''Sarothamnus scoparius''), the common broom or Scotch broom, is a deciduous leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe. In Britain and Ireland, the standard name is broom; this name is also used for oth ...

''†‡ – common broom, Scotch broom, Scot's broom, English broom, broom *'' Dalea candida var. oligophylla'' – western prairie clover *'' Dalea searlsiae'' – Searls' prairie clover *''

Galega officinalis ''Galega officinalis'', commonly known as galega or goat's-rue, is an herbaceous plant in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae. It is native to parts of northern Africa, western Asia and Europe, but is widely cultivated and natu ...

''†‡ – galega, goat's-rue, French lilac, Italian fitch, professor-weed *''

Lupinus kingii ''Lupinus kingii'' (King's lupine) is a species of Lupinus, family Fabaceae, which can be found in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah. Both the leaves and the pods are hairy with the later being long. In Utah, it is found only at Bryce ...

'' – King's lupine *'' Ottleya rigida'' – shrubby deervetch, desert rock-pea *''

Oxytropis campestris ''Oxytropis campestris'', the field locoweed, is a plant native to Northern Europe, the mountains of Central & Southern Europe, the Northwestern United States and all of Canada, sometimes grown as an ornamental plant. It is found in prairies, w ...

'' – field locoweed *''

Psorothamnus fremontii ''Psorothamnus fremontii'', the Fremont's dalea or Fremont's indigo bush (after John C. Frémont) is a perennial legume shrub. Distribution ''Psorothamnus fremontii'' is common to the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico - in the stat ...

'' – Frémont's dalea, Frémont's indigo bush *''

Psorothamnus polydenius ''Psorothamnus polydenius'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Nevada dalea and Nevada indigobush. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States from the Mojave Desert in California to ...

'' – Nevada dalea, Nevada indigobush *''

Thermopsis montana ''Thermopsis montana'', the false lupin, mountain goldenbanner, golden pea, mountain thermopsis, or revonpapu, is a plant species which is native to the western United States. The Latin specific epithet ''montana'' refers to mountains or coming f ...

'' – false lupin, mountain goldenbanner, golden pea, mountain thermopsis, revonpapu *''

Trifolium beckwithii ''Trifolium beckwithii'' is a species of clover known by the common name Beckwith's clover. Distribution It is native to the western United States, from northeastern California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the Great Basin region, to Montana and i ...

'' – Beckwith's clover *''

Trifolium eriocephalum ''Trifolium eriocephalum'' is a species of clover known by the common name woollyhead clover or hairy head clover. Distribution The plant is native to the north-western United States, and to California, Nevada, and Utah. It is a common plant of ...

'' – woollyhead clover, hairy head clover *''

Trifolium friscanum ''Trifolium friscanum'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Frisco clover. It is endemic to the US state of Utah, where it is known only from Beaver and Millard Counties. It is found growing on the ...

'' – Frisco clover *'' Trifolium kingii'' – King's clover

Fagaceae

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Quercus gambelii ''Quercus gambelii'', with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountains of western North America. It is also regionally called scrub oak, oak brush, and white oak. ...

'' – Gambel oak, scrub oak, oak brush, white oak *''

Quercus welshii ''Quercus welshii'', the wavy leaf oak, shinnery oak, or Tucker oak, is a North American species of shrub in the (Fagaceae, beech family) found in the Flora of the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region, Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region o ...

'' – wavy leaf oak, shinnery oak, Tucker oak

Garryaceae

*'' Garrya flavescens'' – ashy silktassel

Gentianaceae

*'' Frasera albomarginata'' – desert green gentian, desert frasera *'' Frasera gypsicola'' – Sunnyside green-gentian, Sunnyside elkweed, Sunnyside frasera *'' Gentiana parryi'' – Parry's gentian

Geraniaceae

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Geranium caespitosum ''Geranium caespitosum'', the purple cluster geranium or pineywoods geranium, is a perennial herb native to the western United States and northern Mexico. Its US distribution includes Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyomin ...

'' – purple cluster geranium, pineywoods geranium

Hypericaceae

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Hypericum perforatum ''Hypericum perforatum'', known as St. John's wort, is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae and the type species of the genus ''Hypericum''. Possibly a hybrid between '' H. maculatum'' and '' H. attenuatum'', the species can be found a ...

''†‡ – perforate St John's-wort, common Saint John's wort, St John's wort, Tipton's weed, rosin rose, goatweed, chase-devil, Klamath weed

Lamiaceae

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Agastache urticifolia ''Agastache urticifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name nettleleaf giant hyssop or horse mint. Distribution It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, wher ...

'' – nettleleaf giant hyssop, horse mint *'' Salvia azurea'' – azure blue sage, azure sage, blue sage, prairie sage *''

Salvia columbariae ''Salvia columbariae'' is an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia, or desert chia, because its seeds are used in the same way as those of ''Salvia hispanica'' (Chia seed, chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Utah, ...

'' – chia, chia sage, golden chia, desert chia, pashiiy, it'epeš *''

Salvia dorrii ''Salvia dorrii'', the purple sage, Dorr's sage, fleshy sage, mint sage, or tobacco sage, is a perennial spreading shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to mountain areas in the western United States and northwestern Arizona, found mainly ...

'' – purple sage, Dorr's sage, fleshy sage, mint sage, tobacco sage

Liliaceae

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Calochortus ambiguus ''Calochortus ambiguus'', the Arizona mariposa lily or doubting mariposa lily, is a perennial plant in the lily family (liliaceae) that grows at higher elevations of the Sonoran Desert regions of Arizona, western New Mexico, southern Utah ...

'' – Arizona mariposa lily, doubting mariposa lily *'' Calochortus bruneaunis'' – Bruneau mariposa lily *''

Calochortus ciscoensis ''Calochortus ciscoensis'' is a North American species of flowering plants in the lily family first described for modern science in 2008. It was originally described as only occurring only in eastern Utah ( Uintah, Duchesne, and Grand Counties ...

'' *'' Calochortus flexuosus'' – winding Mariposa lily, straggling Mariposa lily

Loasaceae

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Eucnide urens ''Eucnide urens'', also known as desert rock nettle or desert stingbush, is a shrub which is native to desert areas in California, Arizona, Utah and Baja California. Other common names are velcro plant and vegetable velcro. The flowers, which ...

'' – desert rock nettle, desert stingbush, velcro plant, vegetable velcro *'' Mentzelia goodrichii'' – Goodrich's blazingstar *'' Mentzelia laevicaulis'' – giant blazingstar, smoothstem blazingstar

Lythraceae

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Lythrum salicaria ''Lythrum salicaria'' or purple loosestrifeFlora of NW Europe''Lythrum salicaria'' is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae. It should not be confused with other plants sharing the name loosestrife that are members of the family Pr ...

''†‡ – purple loosestrife, spiked loosestrife, purple lythrum

Malvaceae

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Sidalcea oregana ''Sidalcea oregana'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name Oregon checkerbloom. Distribution It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it grows in a number o ...

'' – Oregon checkerbloom *''

Sphaeralcea ambigua ''Sphaeralcea ambigua'', is a species of flowering plant commonly known as desert globemallow or apricot mallow, is a member of the genus '' Sphaeralcea'' in the mallow family (Malvaceae). It is a perennial shrub native to parts of California, N ...

'' – desert globemallow, apricot mallow *''

Sphaeralcea gierischii ''Sphaeralcea gierischii'', Gierisch's globemallow or Gierisch mallow, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to the western United States, where it is known only from Utah and Arizona.

'' – Gierisch's globemallow, Gierisch mallow *'' Sphaeralcea rusbyi'' – Rusby's globemallow, Rusby's desert-mallow

Montiaceae

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Cistanthe umbellata ''Calyptridium umbellatum'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Cistanthe umbellata'', is a species of flowering plant in the Montiaceae, montia family known by the common name Mount Hood pussypaws or — especially outside the Pacific Northwest — s ...

'' – Mount Hood pussypaws, pussy-paws

Nyctaginaceae

*'' Abronia mellifera'' – white sand verbena *'' Mirabilis laevis'' – desert wishbone-bush

Oleaceae

*'' Fraxinus anomala'' – single-leaf ash *''

Menodora spinescens ''Menodora spinescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the olive family known by the common name spiny menodora. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows in varied mountain, canyon, and desert habitat in California, Ne ...

'' – spiny menodora

Onagraceae

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Calylophus lavandulifolius ''Calylophus lavandulifolius'' (lavender leaf sundrops, formerly ''Oenothera lavandulifolia'') is a low-growing perennial plant in the evening primrose family found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United States ...

'' (formerly ''Oenothera lavandulifolia'') – lavender leaf sundrops *'' Camissonia bairdii'' *''

Oenothera albicaulis file:Oenothera albicaulis NPS-01.jpg, 200px, ''Oenothera albicaulis'' ''Oenothera albicaulis'' is a New World plant in the evening primrose family. It is known by the common names prairie evening-primrose, white-stem evening-primrose, whitish eve ...

'' – prairie evening-primrose, white-stem evening-primrose, whitish evening primrose, whitest evening primrose *''

Oenothera californica ''Oenothera californica'', known by the common name California evening primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family. Distribution The plant is native to regions of southern and western California, the Southwestern Un ...

'' – California evening primrose *'' Oenothera primiveris'' – yellow desert evening primrose, bottle evening-primrose, desert evening-primrose

Orchidaceae

*'' Cypripedium fasciculatum'' – clustered lady's slipper *'' Spiranthes diluvialis'' – Ute lady's tresses, Ute ladies'-tresses

Orobanchaceae

*'' Castilleja angustifolia'' – northwestern Indian paintbrush, desert Indian paintbrush *'' Castilleja applegatei'' – Applegate's Indian paintbrush, wavyleaf Indian paintbrush *'' Castilleja aquariensis'' – Aquarius Plateau Indian paintbrush *'' Castilleja linariifolia'' – Wyoming Indian paintbrush, narrow-leaved Indian paintbrush, desert paintbrush, Wyoming desert paintbrush, Wyoming paintbrush, linaria-leaved Indian Paintbrush, Indian paintbrush *'' Castilleja occidentalis'' – western Indian paintbrush *'' Castilleja septentrionalis'' – pale painted cup, northern painted cup, pale Indian paintbrush, Labrador Indian paintbrush *''

Pedicularis centranthera ''Pedicularis centranthera'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common names dwarf lousewort and Great Basin lousewort. It is native to the western United States from eastern Oregon and California to Colorado ...

'' – dwarf lousewort, Great Basin lousewort

Paeoniaceae

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Paeonia brownii ''Paeonia brownii'' is a low to medium height, herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd ed., 2013, p. 102 It has compound, steely-gray, somewhat fleshy leaves and small drooping ma ...

'' – Brown's peony, native peony, western peony

Papaveraceae

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Arctomecon californica ''Arctomecon californica'' is a species of poppy known by several common names, including California bearpoppy, Las Vegas bearpoppy, golden bearpoppy, and yellow-flowered desert poppy. It is a perennial herb that is native to the eastern Mojave D ...

'' – California bearpoppy, Las Vegas bearpoppy, golden bearpoppy, yellow-flowered desert poppy *''

Arctomecon humilis ''Arctomecon humilis'' is an endangered, endemic species found only in the Dixie Corridor in southwest Utah. ''A. humilis'' grows in a very harsh desert environment, requiring a specific soil type. The plant’s common name is dwarf bear-poppy ( ...

'' – bearclaw poppy, dwarf bearclaw-poppy *'' Dicentra uniflora'' – longhorn steer's head *'' Eschscholzia minutiflora'' – pygmy poppy *'' Platystemon californicus'' – creamcups

Phrymaceae

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Erythranthe suksdorfii ''Erythranthe suksdorfii'', with the common names Suksdorf's monkeyflower and miniature monkeyflower, is an annual plant, annual flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae (Lopseed). It was formerly known as ''Mimulus suksdorfii''. A specimen colle ...

'' – Suksdorf's monkeyflower, miniature monkeyflower *'' Mimetanthe pilosa'' – false monkeyflower, downy mimetanthe

Pinaceae

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Abies concolor ''Abies concolor'', the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae. This tree is native to the mountains of western North America, including the Cascade Range and southern Rocky Mountains, and into the isolated mountain ranges ...

'' – white fir *''

Abies lasiocarpa ''Abies lasiocarpa'', the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree. Description ''Abies lasiocarpa'' is a medium-sized evergreen conifer with a very narrow conic crown, growing to tall, exceptionally , with a ...

'' – subalpine fir, Rocky Mountain fir, Rocky Mountain subalpine fir *''

Picea engelmannii ''Picea engelmannii'', with the common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, and silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America. It is mostly a high-altitude mountain tree but also appears in watered canyon ...

'' – Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, silver spruce *''

Pinus edulis ''Pinus edulis'', the Colorado pinyon, two-needle piñon, pinyon pine, or simply piñon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Geoflora (a group of drought resistant trees) and is native to the Uni ...

'' – Colorado pinyon, two-needle piñon, pinyon pine, piñon *''

Pinus flexilis ''Pinus flexilis'', the limber pine, is a species of pine tree-the family Pinaceae that occurs in the mountains of the Western United States, Mexico, and Canada. It is also called Rocky Mountain white pine. A limber pine in Eagle Cap Wilderness ...

'' – limber pine, Rocky Mountain white pine *''

Pinus longaeva ''Pinus longaeva'' (commonly referred to as the Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, or western bristlecone pine) is a long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the higher mountains of California, Nevada, and ...

'' – Great Basin bristlecone pine, intermountain bristlecone pine, western bristlecone pine *''

Pinus monophylla ''Pinus monophylla'', the single-leaf pinyon, (alternatively spelled piñon) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and souther ...

'' – single-leaf pinyon, single-leaf piñon *''

Pinus ponderosa ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...

'' – ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine *''

Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca ''Pseudotsuga menziesii'' var. ''glauca'', or Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the interior mountainous regions of western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta in Canada southward throug ...

'' – Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

Plantaginaceae

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Linaria dalmatica ''Linaria dalmatica'' is a herbaceous, short-lived perennial plant native to western Asia and southeastern Europe that has become a weed in other areas. The family this plant now belongs to is the Plantaginaceae Family. Previously, it belonged t ...

''†‡ – Balkan toadflax, broadleaf toadflax, Dalmatian toadflax *''

Linaria vulgaris ''Linaria vulgaris'', the common toadflax,Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. yellow toadflax or butter-and-eggs, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Europe, Siberia ...

''†‡ – common toadflax, yellow toadflax, butter-and-eggs *'' Mohavea breviflora'' – golden desert-snapdragon, lesser mohavea *'' Penstemon cyanocaulis'' – bluestem penstemon, bluestem beardtongue *'' Penstemon franklinii'' – Franklin's penstemon *''

Penstemon gibbensii ''Penstemon gibbensii'' is a species of flowering plant in the Plantaginaceae, plantain family known by the common name Gibbens' beardtongue. It is native to the western United States, where it occurs in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.

'' – Gibbens' beardtongue *'' Penstemon grahamii'' – Uinta Basin beardtongue, Graham's beardtongue *'' Penstemon navajoa'' – Navajo Mountain beardtongue, Navajo beardtongue *''

Penstemon palmeri ''Penstemon palmeri'', known by the common name Palmer's penstemon, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the genus ''Penstemon'' that is notable for its showy, rounded flowers, and for being one of the few scented penstemons. The plant, i ...

'' – Palmer's penstemon *'' Penstemon pinorum'' – Pine Valley penstemon, pinyon penstemon *'' Penstemon scariosus'' – White River beardtongue, White River beardtongue, Neese's Blue Mountain beardtongue, Garrett's beardtongue

Poaceae

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Achnatherum aridum ''Achnatherum aridum'' is a species of grass known by the common name Mormon needlegrass. It is native to the southwestern United States from the Mojave Desert in California east to Colorado and New Mexico. Description ''Achnatherum aridum'' is ...

'' – Mormon needlegrass *''

Achnatherum lettermanii ''Achnatherum lettermanii'' is a species of grass known by the common name Letterman's needlegrass. The updated and accepted name is ''Stipa lettermanii''. It is native to the western United States from California to Montana to New Mexico, where ...

'' – Letterman's needlegrass *'' Achnatherum nelsonii'' – Columbia needlegrass, subalpine needlegrass, western needlegrass *''

Achnatherum parishii ''Stipa parishii'', formerly classified as ''Achnatherum parishii'', is a species of Poaceae, grass known by the common name Parish's needlegrass.

'' (also ''Stipa parishii'') – Parish's needlegrass *'' Achnatherum thurberianum'' – Thurber's needlegrass *''

Aegilops cylindrica ''Aegilops cylindrica'', also known as jointed goatgrass. is an annual grass seed that is part of the tribe Triticeae, along with wheat and some other cereals. It is not native to North America, however it has become a serious issue as a weed si ...

''†‡ – jointed goatgrass *''

Aristida purpurea ''Aristida purpurea'' is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn. Distribution This grass is fairly widespread and can be found across the western two thirds of the United States, much of ...

'' – purple three-awn *''

Arundo donax ''Arundo donax'' is a tall perennial cane. It is one of several so-called reed species. It has several common names including giant cane, elephant grass, carrizo, arundo, Spanish cane, Colorado river reed, wild cane, and giant reed. ''Arundo'' an ...

''†‡ – giant cane, elephant grass, carrizo, arundo, Spanish cane, Colorado river reed, wild cane, giant reed *'' Blepharidachne kingii'' – King's eyelashgrass *''

Bouteloua eriopoda ''Bouteloua eriopoda'', commonly known as black grama, is a perennial prairie grass that is native to the Southwestern United States. Its main means of reproduction is by stolons, as its ratio of viable seeds to sterile ones is naturally low. The ...

'' – black grama *''

Bouteloua gracilis ''Bouteloua gracilis'', the blue grama, is a long-lived, warm-season (C4 carbon fixation, C4) Perennial plant, perennial grass, native to North America. It is most commonly found from Alberta, Canada, east to Manitoba and south across the Rocky ...

'' – blue grama *''

Bromus tectorum ''Bromus tectorum'', known as downy brome, drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas. It now is present in most of Europe, southe ...

''† – drooping brome, cheatgrass *''

Calamagrostis rubescens ''Calamagrostis rubescens'' is a species of grass known by the common name pinegrass. Distribution It is native to western North America, including Canada from British Columbia to Manitoba and the United States from California to Colorado. It ca ...

'' – pinegrass *''

Cynodon dactylon ''Cynodon dactylon'', commonly known as Bermuda grass, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe, Africa, Australia and much of Asia. It has been introduced to the Americas. Although it is not native to Bermuda, it is an abundant invasi ...

''†‡ – Bermuda grass, Dhoob, dūrvā grass, ethana grass, dubo, dog's tooth grass, Bahama grass, devil's grass, couch grass, Indian doab, arugampul, grama, wiregrass, scutch grass, crab grass *''

Distichlis spicata ''Distichlis spicata'' is a species of grass known by several common names, including seashore saltgrass, inland saltgrass, and desert saltgrass. This grass is native to the Americas, where it is widespread. It can be found on other continents a ...

'' – seashore saltgrass, inland saltgrass, desert saltgrass *''

Elymus elymoides ''Elymus elymoides'' is a species of wild rye known by the common name squirreltail. This grass is native to most of North America west of the Mississippi River and occurs in a number of ecosystems, from the alpine zone to desert sage scrub to ...

'' – squirreltail *''

Elymus repens ''Elymus repens'', commonly known as couch grass, is a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia, the Arctic biome, and northwest Africa. It has been brought into other mild northern climates for forage or erosion cont ...

''†‡ – couch grass, common couch, twitch, quick grass, quitch grass, quitch, dog grass, quackgrass, scutch grass, witchgrass *'' Hilaria rigida'' – big galleta *''

Imperata cylindrica ''Imperata cylindrica'' (commonly known as cogongrass or kunai grass ) is a species of Perennial plant, perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, Africa, and southern Europe. It has al ...

''†‡ – cogongrass, kunai grass, blady grass, satintail, spear grass, sword grass, thatch grass, alang-alang, lalang grass, cotton wool grass, kura-kura *'' Melica stricta'' – rock melic *''

Oryzopsis hymenoides ''Eriocoma hymenoides'' (common names: Indian ricegrass and sand rice grass) is a cool-season, perennial bunchgrass with narrow, rolled leaf blades.Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd Ed., p287 It is native to western North America east of ...

'' (or ''Achnatherum hymenoides'' or ''Stipa hymenoides'') – Indian ricegrass, sand rice grass *''

Phragmites australis ''Phragmites australis'', known as the common reed, is a species of plant. It is a broadly distributed wetland grass that can grow up to tall. Description ''Phragmites australis'' commonly forms extensive stands (known as reed beds), which may ...

''†‡ – common reed *''

Pseudoroegneria spicata ''Pseudoroegneria spicata'' is a species of grass known by the common name bluebunch wheatgrass. This native western North American perennial bunchgrass is also known by the scientific synonyms ''Elymus spicatus'' and ''Agropyron spicatum''. The g ...

'' – bluebunch wheatgrass *''

Puccinellia simplex ''Puccinellia simplex'' is a species of Poaceae, grass known by the common names California alkaligrass and western alkali grass. It is native to California, where it grows in mineral springs and other moist habitat with soil salinity, saline soi ...

'' – California alkaligrass, western alkali grass *'' Sorghum almum''†‡ *''

Sorghum halepense Johnson grass or Johnsongrass, ''Sorghum halepense'', is a plant in the grass family, Poaceae, native to Asia and northern Africa. The plant has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica, and most larger islands and archipelagos. It re ...

''†‡ – Johnson grass, Johnsongrass *''

Sporobolus wrightii ''Sporobolus wrightii'' is a species of grass known by the common names big sacaton and giant sacaton. It is native to the western United States and northern and central Mexico.Stipa lemmonii'' – Lemmon's needlegrass

Polemoniaceae

*'' Aliciella caespitosa'' (or ''Gilia caespitosa'') – Rabbit Valley gilia, Wonderland Alice-flower *'' Aliciella leptomeria'' – sand gilia, Great Basin gilia *'' Aliciella tenuis'' – Mussentuchit gilia, Mussentuchit Creek gilia *'' Gilia ophthalmoides'' – eyed gilia *'' Gilia transmontana'' – transmontane gilia *''

Leptosiphon harknessii ''Leptosiphon harknessii'' ( syn. ''Linanthus harknessii'') is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Harkness' flaxflower. Distribution and habitat The plant is native to western North America, from British C ...

'' – Harkness' flaxflower *'' Loeseliastrum depressum'' – depressed ipomopsis *''

Polemonium viscosum ''Polemonium viscosum'', known as sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, and sticky polemonium, is a flowering plant in the genus ''Polemonium'' native to western North America from southern British Columbia east to Montana and south to Ariz ...

'' – sky pilot, skunkweed, sticky Jacobs-ladder, sticky polemonium

Polygonaceae

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Eriogonum alatum ''Eriogonum alatum'', with the common names winged buckwheat and winged eriogonum, is a species of buckwheat. The plant is native to the western Great Plains, the Southwestern United States, and Chihuahua state in México. Varieties Varietie ...

'' – winged buckwheat, winged eriogonum *'' Eriogonum corymbosum var. smithii'' – Flat Tops wild buckwheat *''

Eriogonum corymbosum var. nilesii ''Eriogonum corymbosum'' var. ''nilesii'' is a rare variety of '' Eriogonum corymbosum'', a species of Polygonaceae, commonly known as Nile's wild buckwheat, Las Vegas buckwheat, or golden buckwheat. The plant can be found in the Mojave Desert, ...

'' – Nile's wild buckwheat, Las Vegas buckwheat, golden buckwheat *'' Eriogonum heermannii'' – Heermann's buckwheat *'' Eriogonum jamesii'' – James' buckwheat, antelope sage *''

Eriogonum nidularium ''Eriogonum nidularium'' is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name birdnest buckwheat. It is native to the sandy flats and desert dry washes of the Mojave Desert and Great Basin in the western United States, where it is common and ...

'' – birdnest buckwheat *'' Eriogonum nummulare'' – Kearney's buckwheat, money buckwheat *'' Eriogonum soredium'' – Frisco buckwheat *'' Eriogonum thomasii'' – Thomas' buckwheat *'' Eriogonum zionis'' – Zion wild buckwheat, Point Sublime wild buckwheat *'' Polygonum utahense'' – Utah knotweed *'' Pterostegia drymarioides'' – woodland threadstem, woodland pterostegia, fairy mist, fairy bowties *''

Reynoutria japonica ''Reynoutria japonica'', synonyms ''Fallopia japonica'' and ''Polygonum cuspidatum'', is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Common names include Japanese knotweed and Asian knotweed. It is ...

'' (or ''Polygonum cuspidatum'' or ''Fallopia japonica'')†‡ – Asian knotweed, Japanese knotweed

Primulaceae

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Androsace filiformis ''Androsace filiformis'' is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common names filiform rockjasmine and slender-stemmed androsace. It is an uncommon plant native to the Northwestern United States, California, Colorado ...

'' – filiform rockjasmine, slender-stemmed androsace *''

Dodecatheon alpinum ''Primula tetrandra'', synonyms ''Dodecatheon tetrandrum'' and ''Dodecatheon alpinum'', is a perennial plant in the primrose family, Primulaceae, known by the common name alpine shooting star.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd Ed., 2013, ...

'' – alpine shooting star *'' Dodecatheon dentatum'' – white shooting star, toothed American cowslip *'' Dodecatheon redolens'' (also ''Primula fragrans'') – scented shooting star *'' Primula cusickiana'' (or ''Primula maguirei'') – Cusick's primrose, Maquire primrose

Pteridaceae

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Argyrochosma jonesii ''Argyrochosma jonesii'', known as Jones' false cloak fern, is a species of fern native to the southwestern United States and Sonora, Mexico. It grows on calcareous rocks, and has small, finely-divided leaves with a leathery texture and dark axes ...

'' – Jones' false cloak fern *'' Myriopteris covillei'' (formerly ''Cheilanthes covillei'') – Coville's lip fern *'' Myriopteris parryi'' (formerly ''Cheilanthes parryi'') – Parry's lip fern

Ranunculaceae

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Aquilegia flavescens ''Aquilegia flavescens'', the yellow columbine, is a wildflower native to mountain meadows, open woods, and alpine slopes of the Rocky Mountains from Utah north to British Columbia and Alberta. The plant grows to 20–70 cm in height. Whi ...

'' – yellow columbine *''

Aquilegia formosa ''Aquilegia formosa'', the crimson columbine, western columbine, or (ambiguously) "red columbine", is a common wildflower native to western North America, from Alaska to Baja California, and eastward to Montana and Wyoming. Description ''Aquileg ...

'' – crimson columbine, western columbine, red columbine *'' Aquilegia grahamii'' – Graham's columbine *''

Delphinium parishii ''Delphinium parishii'', the desert larkspur, is a flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae (the buttercup family) native to the Mojave Desert, in the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. In Southern California it is also found i ...

'' – desert larkspur *'' Ranunculus aestivalis'' – fall buttercup, autumn buttercup *'' Thalictrum occidentale'' – western meadow-rue

Rhamnaceae

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Ceanothus fendleri ''Ceanothus fendleri'' (Fendler sceanothus, Fendler sbuckbrush, deer brier) is a species of flowering shrub native to northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas and the northeastern Texas panhandle, Utah, Colorado, eastern Wyoming, and wes ...

'' – Fendler's ceanothus, Fendler's buckbrush, deer brier *''

Ceanothus velutinus ''Ceanothus velutinus'', with the common names snowbrush ceanothus, red root, and tobacco brush, is a species of shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it gro ...

'' – snowbrush ceanothus, red root, tobacco brush *''

Rhamnus alnifolia ''Rhamnus alnifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family known by the common names alderleaf buckthorn, or alder buckthorn. Unlike other "buckthorns", this alder buckthorn does not have thorns. It is native to North America ...

'' – alderleaf buckthorn, alder buckthorn

Rosaceae

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Amelanchier utahensis ''Amelanchier utahensis'', the Utah serviceberry, is a shrub or small tree native to western North America. This serviceberry grows in varied habitats, from scrubby open slopes to woodlands and forests. Description ''Amelanchier utahensis'' i ...

'' – Utah serviceberry *''

Cercocarpus ledifolius var. intricatus ''Cercocarpus ledifolius'' var. ''intricatus'' (little-leaf mountain mahogany, narrowleaf mahogany,Canyon Country Wildflowers, Damian Fagan, 2nd ed., 2012, Morris Bush Publishing, LLC. in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural History Association, ...

'' – little-leaf mountain mahogany, narrowleaf mahogany, dwarf mountain mahogany *''

Coleogyne ramosissima ''Coleogyne ramosissima'' or blackbrush, is a low lying, dark grayish-green, aromatic,Turner, Raymond M. 1982. Great Basin desertscrub. In: Brown, David E., ed. Biotic communities of the American Southwest--United States and Mexico. Desert Plan ...

'' – blackbrush *''

Crataegus chrysocarpa ''Crataegus chrysocarpa'' is a species of hawthorn that is native to much of the continental United States and Canada. Common names fireberry hawthorn and goldenberry hawthorn, as well as the scientific name all refer to the colour of the unripe ...

'' – fireberry hawthorn, goldenberry hawthorn *''

Crataegus saligna ''Crataegus saligna'' is a species of hawthorn known by the common name willow hawthorn that is seldom cultivated and rather rare in the wild. Its native range is wet areas of western Colorado and northeastern Utah. It is a shrub or small tree wi ...

'' – willow hawthorn *'' Ivesia kingii'' (or ''Potentilla kingii'') – King's mousetail *'' Peraphyllum ramosissimum'' – squaw apple, wild crab apple *''

Physocarpus malvaceus ''Physocarpus malvaceus'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name mallow ninebark. It is native to western North America, where its distribution extends from British Columbia to Nevada to Wyoming.Habeck, R. J. ...

'' – mallow ninebark *''

Potentilla angelliae ''Potentilla angelliae'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names Angell cinquefoil and Boulder Mountain cinquefoil. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Boulder Mounta ...

'' – Angell cinquefoil, Boulder Mountain cinquefoil *'' Potentilla cottamii'' – Cottam's cinquefoil, Pilot Range cinquefoil *''

Prunus virginiana ''Prunus virginiana'', commonly called bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry (also black chokecherry for ''P. virginiana'' var. ''demissa''), is a species of bird cherry (''Prunus'' subgenus ''Padus'') nat ...

'' – bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry, western chokecherry, black chokecherry *''

Purshia glandulosa ''Purshia glandulosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names antelope bitterbrush, desert bitterbrush, Mojave antelope brush. Distribution The plant is endemic to the southwestern United States, where it oc ...

'' – antelope bitterbrush, desert bitterbrush, Mojave antelope brush *''

Purshia stansburyana ''Purshia stansburyana'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name Stansbury's cliffrose. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in woodlands, desert, and plateau habit ...

'' (or ''Purshia stansburiana'') – Stansbury's cliffrose *''

Purshia tridentata ''Purshia tridentata'', with the common name bitterbrush, is a shrub in the genus '' Purshia'' of the family Rosaceae. It is native to mountainous areas of western North America. Common names include antelope bitterbrush, antelope bush, buc ...

'' – bitterbrush, antelope bush, buckbrush, quinine brush, deerbrush, blackbrush, greasewood *''

Rosa woodsii ''Rosa woodsii'' is a species of wild rose known by the common names Woods' rose, interior rose, common wild rose, mountain rose, pear-hip rose, and prairie rose. Distribution and habitat It is native to North America including much of Canada an ...

'' – Woods' rose, interior rose

Rubiaceae

*'' Galium bifolium'' – twinleaf bedstraw, low mountain bedstraw *'' Galium coloradoense'' – Colorado bedstraw *'' Galium desereticum'' *'' Galium emeryense'' – Emery County bedstraw *'' Galium hypotrichium'' – alpine bedstraw *'' Galium magnifolium'' – largeleaf bedstraw *'' Galium mexicanum'' – Mexican bedstraw *'' Galium multiflorum'' – Kellogg's bedstraw, shrubby bedstraw, many-flowered bedstraw *'' Galium munzii'' – Munz's bedstraw *'' Galium proliferum'' – limestone bedstraw *'' Galium stellatum'' – starry bedstraw, desert bedstraw *'' Houstonia rubra'' – red bluet

Salicaceae

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Populus angustifolia ''Populus angustifolia'', commonly known as the narrowleaf cottonwood, is a species of tree in the willow family (Salicaceae). It is native to western North America, where it is a characteristic species of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding ...

'' – narrowleaf cottonwood *''

Populus tremuloides ''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain or golden aspen, tr ...

'' – quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain aspen, golden aspen, trembling poplar, white poplar, popple *''

Salix amygdaloides ''Salix amygdaloides'', the peachleaf willow, is a species of willow native to central North America east of the Cascade Range. It can be found in southern Canada and the United States—from western British Columbia to Quebec, Idaho, Montana a ...

'' – peachleaf willow *'' Salix arizonica'' – Arizona willow *''

Salix bebbiana ''Salix bebbiana'' is a species of willow indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and northeast to Newfoundland and New England. Common names include beaked willow, long-beaked w ...

'' – beaked willow, long-beaked willow, gray willow, Bebb's willow, red willow *'' Salix boothii'' – Booth's willow *''

Salix brachycarpa ''Salix brachycarpa'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names barren-ground willow,Coladonato, Milo. 199''Salix brachycarpa''.In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

'' – barren-ground willow, small-fruit willow, shortfruit willow *'' Salix cascadensis'' *''

Salix cinerea ''Salix cinerea'' (common sallow, grey sallow, grey willow, grey-leaved sallow, large grey willow, pussy willow, rusty sallow) is a species of willow native to Europe and western Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain ...

''† – common sallow, gray sallow, gray willow, grey sallow, grey willow, grey-leaved sallow, large gray willow, pussy willow, rusty sallow *''

Salix drummondiana ''Salix drummondiana'' is a species of willow known by the common name Drummond's willow. It is native to western North America from Yukon and the Northwest Territories in the north to California and New Mexico in the south. It is a resident of m ...

'' – Drummond's willow *''

Salix exigua ''Salix exigua'' (sandbar willow, narrowleaf willow, or coyote willow; syn. ''S. argophylla, S. hindsiana, S. interior, S. linearifolia, S. luteosericea, S. malacophylla, S. nevadensis,'' and '' S. parishiana'') is a species of willow native to m ...

'' – sandbar willow, narrowleaf willow, coyote willow *'' Salix fragilis''† – crack willow, brittle willow *'' Salix geyeriana'' – Geyer's willow, Geyer willow, silver willow *''

Salix glauca ''Salix glauca'' is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow. It is native to North America, where it occurs throughout much of Alaska, northern ...

'' – gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, glaucous willow *''

Salix gooddingii ''Salix gooddingii'' is a species of willow known by the common name Goodding's willow, or Goodding's black willow. It was named for its collector, Leslie Newton Goodding. ''Salix gooddingii'' is native to the southwestern United States and nor ...

'' – Goodding's willow, Goodding's black willow *''

Salix laevigata ''Salix laevigata'', the red willow or polished willow, is a species of willow native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California. Biology The red willow is a small tree up to in height. Like most other willows, it commonly ...

'' – red willow, polished willow *''

Salix lasiolepis ''Salix lasiolepis'' (arroyo willow) is a species of willow native to western North America. Distribution The core range of the arroyo willow includes most of California, including the California Coast Ranges, Arizona, Klamath Mountains, Penin ...

'' – arroyo willow *'' Salix ligulifolia'' – strapleaf willow *'' Salix lucida'' – shining willow, Pacific willow, whiplash willow *'' Salix lutea'' – yellow willow *''

Salix matsudana ''Salix babylonica'' (Babylon willow or weeping willow; ) is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe.Flora of China'' ...

''† – Chinese willow *'' Salix melanopsis'' – dusky willow *'' Salix monticola'' – mountain willow, cherry willow, serviceberry willow, park willow *''

Salix nivalis ''Salix reticulata'', the net-leaved willow, or snow willow,Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd Ed., 2013 p. 197 is a dwarf willow, native to the colder parts of Europe, North America, and Northern Asia. It is found in the western Unite ...

'' – net-leaved willow, snow willow *''

Salix petrophila ''Salix petrophila'', commonly known as alpine willow and Rocky Mountain willow, is a Northwest American mountain shrub in the willow family (Salicaceae). Habitat and range It can be found in the subalpine zone and alpine zone of the Sierra Ne ...

'' – alpine willow, Rocky Mountain willow *''

Salix planifolia ''Salix planifolia'' is a species of willow known by the common names planeleaf willow, diamondleaf willow, and tea-leafed willow. It is native to northern and western North America, including most of Canada and the western United States. It grow ...

'' – planeleaf willow, diamondleaf willow, tea-leafed willow *'' Salix prolixa'' – MacKenzie's willow *''

Salix scouleriana ''Salix scouleriana'' (Scouler's willow; syn. ''S. brachystachys'' Benth., ''S. capreoides'' Anderss., ''S. flavescens'' Nutt., ''S. nuttallii'' Sarg., ''S. stagnalis'' Nutt.) is a species of willow native to northwestern North America. Other nam ...

'' – Scouler's willow *'' Salix wolfii''

Santalaceae

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Phoradendron californicum ''Phoradendron californicum'', the desert mistletoe or mesquite mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant native to southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California. It can be found in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts at elev ...

'' – desert mistletoe, mesquite mistletoe *'' Phoradendron juniperinum'' – juniper mistletoe

Sarcobataceae

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Sarcobatus vermiculatus ''Sarcobatus'' is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for ''S. vermiculatus'' include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, ''Sarcobatus'' has been ...

'' – greasewood, seepwood, saltbush

Saururaceae

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Anemopsis californica The monotypic genus ''Anemopsis'' has only one species, ''Anemopsis californica'', with the common names yerba mansa or lizard tail. It is a perennial (plant), perennial herb in the lizard tail family (Saururaceae) and prefers very wet soil or ...

'' – yerba mansa, lizard tail

Simmondsiaceae

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Simmondsia chinensis Jojoba (; botanical name: ''Simmondsia chinensis'')also commonly called goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, and gray box bushis native to the Southwestern United States. ''Simmondsia chinensis'' is the sole specie ...

'' – Jojoba, goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, gray box bush

Solanaceae

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Hyoscyamus niger ''Hyoscyamus niger'', commonly known as henbane, black henbane, or stinking nightshade, is a poisonous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is native to temperate Europe and Siberia, and naturalised in Great Britain and Ireland. Histor ...

''†‡ – henbane, black henbane, stinking nightshade *''

Lycium andersonii ''Lycium andersonii'' is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Its common names include water-jacket, redberry desert-thorn,Lycium barbarum ''Lycium barbarum'' is a shrub native to China, with present-day range across Asia and southeast Europe. It is one of two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae from which the goji berry or wolfberry is harvested, the other being ''Lycium c ...

''† – Chinese wolfberry, Chinese boxthorn, Himalayan goji, Tibetan goji, mede berry, barbary matrimony vine, red medlar, matrimony vine, Duke of Argyll's tea tree, Duke of Argyll's tea plant, Murali *'' Lycium cooperi'' – peach thorn *'' Lycium pallidum'' – pale wolfberry, pale desert-thorn *''

Lycium torreyi ''Lycium torreyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name Torrey wolfberry. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States from California to Texas.Matthews, Robin F. 1994''Lycium tor ...

'' – Torrey wolfberry

Tamaricaceae

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Tamarix ramosissima ''Tamarix ramosissima'', commonly known as saltcedar salt cedar, or tamarisk, is a deciduous arching shrub with reddish stems, feathery, pale green foliage, and characteristic small pink flowers. The cultivar 'Pink Cascade' (dark pink flowered) ...

''†‡ – saltcedar, salt cedar, tamarisk

Violaceae

*'' Viola frank-smithii'' – Frank Smith's violet *'' Viola praemorsa'' – canary violet, Astoria violet, yellow montane violet

Vitaceae

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Vitis arizonica ''Vitis arizonica'' is a North American species of wild grape. It is a deciduous vine. Common names for the grape are Arizona grape, canyon grape, and uva del monte. Etymology ''Vitis'' is Latin for "vine", while ''arizonica'' means "of or fro ...

'' – Arizona grape

Zygophyllaceae

*'' Fagonia laevis'' – California fagonbush *''

Larrea tridentata ''Larrea tridentata'', called creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and ''gobernadora'' (Spanish language, Spanish for "governess") in Mexico, due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of n ...

'' – creosote bush, greasewood, chaparral, gobernadora, hediondilla *''

Tribulus terrestris ''Tribulus terrestris'' is an annual plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae) widely distributed around the world. It is adapted to thrive in dry climate locations in which few other plants can survive. It is native to warm temperate and t ...

''†‡ – goat's-head, bindii, bullhead, burra gokharu, bhakhdi, caltrop, small caltrops, cat's-head, devil's eyelashes, devil's-thorn, devil's-weed, puncture vine, tackweed

Individual trees

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Jardine Juniper The Jardine Juniper is an individual of the species Rocky Mountain juniper found within Logan Canyon in the Cache National Forest. Often credited with an age of over 3,000 years, core samples taken in the 1950s revealed that it was around 1,500 ...

– A Rocky Mountain juniper found within

Logan Canyon Logan Canyon is in the western United States in northeastern Utah, a canyon that cuts its way through the Bear River Mountains, a branch of the Wasatch Range. It is popular for both summer and winter activities, especially rock-climbing, hikin ...

in the

Cache National Forest Cache National Forest is a 533,840-acre area of National Forest System land in Idaho and Utah which was established on July 1, 1908, by the U.S. Forest Service. The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the Bear River N ...

that is about 1,500 years old. * Pando – A

clonal colony A clonal colony or genet is a group of genetically identical individuals, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, that have grown in a given location, all originating vegetatively, not sexually, from a single ancestor. In plants, an individual in s ...

of an individual male

quaking aspen ''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain or golden aspen, tr ...

determined to be a single living organism by identical

genetic marker A genetic marker is a gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species. It can be described as a variation (which may arise due to mutation or alteration in the genomic loci) that can be ...

s and assumed to have one massive underground

root system In mathematics, a root system is a configuration of vectors in a Euclidean space satisfying certain geometrical properties. The concept is fundamental in the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, especially the classification and representati ...

. The plant is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the

Fishlake National Forest Fishlake National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in south central Utah. The namesake for the forest is Fish Lake, the largest freshwater mountain lake in the state. Wildlife Animals that inhabit this forest are elk, shrews, deer, b ...

at the western edge of the

Colorado Plateau The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area of ...

in south-central

, United States, around southwest of Fish Lake. Pando occupies and is estimated to weigh collectively , making it the heaviest known organism. *

Thousand Mile Tree Thousand Mile Tree is a pine tree located in Weber Canyon near the community of Henefer, Utah, Henefer, Utah along the Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), Overland Route of the Union Pacific Railroad. In January 1869, graders of the railroad ...

– A

pine tree A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts ...

located in

Weber Canyon Weber Canyon is a canyon in the Wasatch Range near Ogden, Utah, through which the Weber River flows west toward the Great Salt Lake. It is fed by 13 tributary creeks and is long. History Weber Canyon is, historically, one of the more importa ...

near the community of Henefer, Utah along the Overland Route of the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

. Its location is (by rail) from Omaha, Nebraska.

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References

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