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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Plants

A list of plants in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

common stork's-bill 1
Erodium cicutarium
bulrush 2
Typha latifolia
Sonoran scrub oak 3
Quercus turbinella
notch-leaf scorpion-weed 4
Phacelia crenulata
western wallflower 5
Erysimum capitatum
Fremont cottonwood 6
Populus fremontii
prickly lettuce 7
Lactuca serriola
skunkweed 8
Croton texensis
ribwort plantain 9
Plantago lanceolata
smooth sumac 10
Rhus glabra
five-stamen tamarisk 11
Tamarix chinensis
red tamarisk 12
Tamarix ramosissima
rabbitfoot grass
Polypogon monspeliensis
beavertail cactus 13
Opuntia basilaris
tumbleweed 14
Salsola tragus
rough cocklebur 15
Xanthium strumarium
rubber rabbitbrush 16
Ericameria nauseosa
threadleaf groundsel 17
Senecio flaccidus
small wirelettuce 18
Stephanomeria exigua
prince's plume 19
Stanleya pinnata
fourwing saltbush 11
Atriplex canescens
Shadscale 16
Atriplex confertifolia
coyote melon 20
Cucurbita palmata
honey mesquite 21
Prosopis glandulosa
white-stem stickleaf 22
Mentzelia albicaulis
Canaigre 23
Rumex hymenosepalus
Pomegranate 24
Punica granatum
sacred thorn-apple 25
Datura wrightii
western poison ivy 26
Toxicodendron rydbergii
fragrant sumac 27
Rhus aromatica
spotted spurge 28
Euphorbia maculata
Common purslane 29
Portulaca oleracea
narrowleaf willow 16
Salix exigua
foxtail brome 30
Bromus rubens
desert trumpet 31
Eriogonum inflatum
Western Redbud 5
Cercis occidentalis
fringed puccoon 32
Lithospermum incisum
Utah serviceberry 16
Amelanchier utahensis
broadleaf milkweed 33
Asclepias latifolia
pale smartweed 34
Persicaria lapathifolia
puncture vine 35
Tribulus terrestris
Russian olive 26
Elaeagnus angustifolia
Mojave Mound Cactus 36
Echinocereus mojavensis
Palmer's penstemon 37
Penstemon palmeri
firecracker penstemon 16
Penstemon eatonii
desert marigold 11
Baileya multiradiata
Blackbrush 38
Coleogyne ramosissima
gilia beardtongue 8
Penstemon ambiguus
silver wormwood 16
Artemisia ludoviciana
Funastrum 39
trailing windmills 40
Allionia incarnata
woolly bluestar 39
Amsonia tomentosa
willow baccharis 41
Baccharis salicina
desert paintbrush 42
Castilleja chromosa
Wyoming Indian paintbrush 8
Castilleja linariifolia
desert willow 43
Chilopsis linearis
Spiny Chloracantha 44
Chloracantha spinosa
yellow rabbitbrush 45
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
Fluffgrass 16
Dasyochloa pulchella
hoary aster 30
Dieteria canescens
Engelmann's hedgehog cactus 46
Echinocereus engelmannii
naked-stemmed daisy 30
Enceliopsis nudicaulis
Texas stork's bill 47
Erodium texanum
Apache plume 48
Fallugia paradoxa
single-leaf ash 30
Fraxinus anomala
broom snakeweed 40
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Mountain Pepperweed 36
Lepidium montanum
desert tobacco 49
Nicotiana obtusifolia
fragrant evening primrose 36
Oenothera cespitosa
starvation prickly-pear 50
Opuntia polyacantha
mat rock spiraea
Petrophytum caespitosum
woolly plantain 16
Plantago patagonica
arrowweed 31
Pluchea sericea
frosted mint 20
Poliomintha incana
velvet mesquite 51
Prosopis velutina
Stansbury's cliffrose 41
Purshia stansburyana
gooseberry-leaved globemallow 11
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia
longbeak streptanthella 52
Streptanthella longirostris
parralena 53
Thymophylla pentachaeta
spiny goldenweed 45
Xanthisma spinulosum
Mojave prickly-pear 54
Opuntia polyacantha erinacea
Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf 30
Thymophylla pentachaeta belenidium
narrowleaf yucca 20
Yucca angustissima
Indian ricegrass 55
Achnatherum hymenoides
western spiderwort 56
Tradescantia occidentalis
woolly locoweed 57
Astragalus mollissimus
Double Bladderpod 36
Physaria acutifolia
pale evening primrose 16
Oenothera pallida
Roundleaf buffaloberry
Shepherdia rotundifolia
sand sagebrush 58
Artemisia filifolia
matted crinklemat
Tiquilia latior
fragrant white sand verbena 59
Abronia elliptica
Smallflower Fishhook Cactus 60
Sclerocactus parviflorus
cliff fendlerbush 61
Fendlera rupicola
crispleaf buckwheat 62
Eriogonum corymbosum
Rusby's goldenbush 63
Isocoma rusbyi
Ribseed Sandmat 64
Euphorbia glyptosperma
Grand Canyon beavertail 36
Opuntia basilaris longiareolata
Starvation Cactus
Opuntia polyacantha polyacantha
Encelia resinifera 65

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