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Arches National Park photo: Sego lily (Nuttall's mariposa)
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The following information is alphabetized by Family and then Genus. These are some of the most commonly seen flowers in Arches National Park and is not an all inclusive listing. Please see the plant list for Arches National Park for a complete listing.

Click on a photograph or a common name below to find more photographs and a description of the plant. The nomenclature for the plant list of Arches National Park is based on A Utah Flora by Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, and Larry C. Higgins (Editors). Where this differs, there is a notation in the plant description.

AGAVACEAE
(Yucca Family)
Yucca harrimaniae

Photo: Yucca harrimaniae

Photo © Alicia Lafever


HARRIMAN'S YUCCA

ANACARDIACEAE (Cashew Family)
Toxicodendron rydbergii

Photo: Toxicodendron rydbergii
NPS Photo by Lee Ferguson


Photo: Toxicodendron rydbergii
NPS Photo


POISON IVY

APOCYNACEAE
(Dogbane Family)
Apocynum cannabinum

Photo: Apocynum cannabinum

Photo © Alicia Lafever

Photo: Apocynum cannabinum

Photo © Alicia Lafever

DOGBANE

ASCLEPIADACEAE
(Milkweed Family)

Asclepias latifolia

Photo: Asclepias latifolia
Photo © Alicia Lafever

Photo: Asclepias latifolia
Photo © Alicia Lafever

BROADLEAF MILKWEED

ASCLEPIADACEAE
(Milkweed Family)
Asclepias macrosperma

Photo: Asclepias macrosperma
Photo © Lee Ferguson

 

 

 

DWARF MILKWEED

ASCLEPIADACEAE (Milkweed Family)
Asclepias speciosa

Photo: Asclepias speciosa

Photo © Al Schneider, www.swcoloradowildflowers.com

 

 


SHOWY MILKWEED