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Thicksepal cryptantha
Kansas Wildflowers — Decumbent to ascending, branching from base, bristly-hairy; branches crowded. Alternate, simple, mostly sessile, linear to lanceolate, .4 to 1.2 inch long, to 1/8 inch wide, stiff-hairy; margins entire, tips pointed to rounded. Cyme, 1 to 5 ...More…
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Tall anemone
Kansas Wildflowers — Two types; usually whorls of 3; blades deeply 3-5-lobed; lobes rhombic-ovate, usually curved toward base, margins toothed or incised to below middle, undersurfaces flattened-hairy; basal leaves 2.4 to 8 inches wide, on stalks 5 to 14 inches long; ...More…
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Slick-seed bean
Kansas Wildflowers — Smooth-seed wild bean, slick-seed fuzzy-bean, small-flowered wild bean, small wild bean. Single or several from branching base, slender, 8 to 40+ inches, low trailing or climbing, often branching above, with stiff spreading hairs to soft long ...More…
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Slender snake-cotton
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect to nearly prostrate, slender, simple or commonly much-branched at base; branches ascending or somewhat trailing on ground, densely or sparsely white-woolly or gray-woolly, 1/25 to 1/8 inch thick. Opposite, sessile or short-stalked, entire, ...More…
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Six-angled spurge
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, delicate, yellowish-green, single from base, branching in opposite pairs alternating at right angles; branches ascending, very slender, minutely and sparsely pubescent. Staminate flowers 20-40 per receptacle; pistillate flower 1; sepals ...More…
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Salt cedar
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, branching, glabrous; branches slender, upright or spreading; bark of young trees red with yellowish leaf scars; bark of mature trees brown, furrowed or ridged. Alternate, simple, sessile; base narrow, brown; lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, ...More…
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Russian thistle
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, much-branched from or near base, ridged, often red- or purple-striped, sparsely coarse-hairy to glabrous; branches many, arching upward, forming rounded bush. Alternate, simple, sessile to clasping, thread-like to narrowly linear, .5 to ...More…
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Pale Indian plantain
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, unbranched below inflorescence, round in cross section, weakly ridged or smooth, waxy. Alternate, basal leaves few, long-stalked, blades triangular-ovate or heart-shaped, to 12 inches long and wide, palmately-veined with 3-10 main veins, ...More…
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Narrowleaf four o'clock
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect to ascending or trailing on the ground, slender, often branched above, usually whitish, waxy, glabrous or nearly so below, glandular-hairy above especially in inflorescence; leaves in lower 1/5 to throughout. Opposite, simple, short-stalked ...More…
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Limestone ruellia
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, slender, simple or sparingly branched, somewhat 4-sided, glabrous or more commonly with 2 narrow, longitudinal lines of pubescence. Calyx lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, .4 to .8 inch long, 1/12 to 1/6 inch wide, glabrous or hairy; corolla ...More…
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Hollyhock flowers, bracts, and calyx
Kansas Wildflowers — Alternate, nearly round, 2 to 12 inches wide, wrinkled; margins shallowly 5-7-lobed or wavy, principal veins palmate; base heart-shaped; stalks long, to 12 inches on leaves of basal rosette, progressively reduced above. Showy, around 4 inches ...More…
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Giant ragweed
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, usually simple or sparingly branched above, longitudinal ridges, rough, short-hairy. Mostly opposite, uppermost often alternate, simple, rough; stalks .4 to 2.8 inches long; blades of lower and middle leaves egg-shaped to nearly circular ...More…