• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

Plants and Wildflowers

Fireweed growing between burnt trees
Fireweed growing between burnt trees
 

Yellowstone is home to more than 1,350 species of vascular plants, of which 218 are non-native.

• Wildflowers (84KB pdf)

• Yellowstone Sand Verbena

• Exotic Vegetation Management in Yellowstone (318 KB pdf)

For more information on plants in Yellowstone visit the Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center.

Did You Know?

Seventh Cavalry Ensignia Pin.

Prior to the establishment of the National Park Service, the U.S. Army protected Yellowstone between 1886 and 1918. Fort Yellowstone was established at Mammoth Hot Springs for that purpose.