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Life-changer: These wild and cheery flowers will make you smile when we see them.

Identifiable Traits: A long taproot, hairy stem and yellow-orange flower-heads.

Habitat: Dry sunny open hillsides and praries to mid upper elevations and a large range from British Columbia to the Mohave Desert in California and as far east as South Dakota.

They are a member of the aster (sunflower) family and have been used for consumption and medicinal purposes by Native Americans. “Arrowleaf Balsamroot” photo by Jenny Burns taken at Riverside State Park in May of 2015.Īlso known as the “Oregon sunflower”, these cheery yellow flowers carpet hillsides in eastern and central Washington in spring.

Life-changer: You can become a citizen-scientist and help conserve monarch butterflies.

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Identifiable Traits: These fragrant plant blossoms bloom from summer to fall and can be found in full sun with at heights 2-6′ with 4-5′ clusters of pinkish/purple blooms.Habitat: Native to western US and Canada.You may contact Ella Rowan, Assistant District Wildlife Biologist, Ephrata Office, with estimates of location or coordinates at (509) 754-4624 x232 or by e-mail, gov WDFW is especially interested in mapping locations where this plant occurs, because of its importance in the life-cycle of the monarch butterfly. You also have an opportunity to assist the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife by identifying areas in the Columbia Basin with patches of our native showy milkweed (5 or more plants). When you find milkweed plants in the wild, you can serve as a citizen scientist by noting and reporting the location of these plants to the Xerxes Society so that they can complete their distribution survey model. The more data collected, the more accurate this model will be to help Xerxes identify areas where milkweed plantings (and monarchs) will flourish.

Monarch butterflies have suffered population loss due to the loss of these plants and habitat. Milkweed plants provide sustenance for monarch caterpillars that eventually emerge as the butterflies that are renowned for their long-distance seasonal migrations to California and Mexico. “Asclepias speciosa” photo by Carol Coker via Columbia Basin Native Plant Society’s Facebook Pageįind and report these fragrant plants to assist in the conservation of monarch butterflies.