Mar 24, 2025 · This page contains color photographs of Kansas wildflowers, native grasses, sedges, ferns, trees, and shrubs and descriptive information about each plant.

Aug 27, 2021 · Flowers: Ray florets 4-11, to 1.25 inch long, spreading or drooping, yellow, bases sometimes reddish purple; tips notched; disk florets numerous, corollas brownish, each …

Feb 14, 2021 · The state flower of Kansas, by enactment of the 1903 Kansas Legislature. When actively growing, the flowers and leaves follow the sun as it traverses the sky. Sunflowers …

Jan 18, 2014 · Flowers: Pedicels .6 to 1 inch, stipitate-glandular; flowers 1.6 to 2.4 inches wide; hypanthium ovoid, .16 to .25 inch, stipitate-glandular; sepals 5, ovate to lanceolate, .4 to .6 …

Aug 27, 2021 · Prairie larkspur is poisonous to cattle, which find it palatable. Horses and sheep are less inclined to eat it. All parts of the plant are toxic, whether fresh or dried in hay.

Aug 27, 2021 · Flowers: Small; calyces bell-shaped, densely hairy; corollas papilionaceous, purple, rose or pinkish; stamens 5, united. Fruits: Pods, tiny, egg-shaped, smooth; seeds 1, …

Oct 9, 2007 · Solitary flowers, terminal, stalks 1 to several, smooth, usually rising above leaves. Flowers:

Feb 23, 2018 · Flowers: Many; calyx teeth ovate; tips pointed; corollas tiny, 5-parted, yellow to greenish yellow. Fruits: Elliptic to round, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, flattened, corky-winged, glabrous, …

Nov 11, 2007 · Scattered throughout Kansas. Uses: The Navajo steeped the roots to make a lotion and applied a poultice of root bark to sores. Comments: The flowers open late afternoon, …

Sep 7, 2009 · Prairie gaillardia, slender-leaf blanket-flower, lance-leaf blanket-flower. Stems: Erect, usually single-stemmed, branching above, pubescent or somewhat glandular.