Scotts Bluff National Monument: Species List, Common Name

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Vegetation Characterization Program

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Common Name, Species List Information

This is a list that contains all the plant species in alphabetic order with pictures and taxonomy for each species found in Scotts Bluff National Monument. Also available are scientific names of the species. Information for taxonomy and pictures came from the following sites.

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Common Name	Pictures	Common Name	Pictures
Alderleaf mountain mahogany		Narrowleaf willow
Aromatic aster		Needleleaf sedge
Azure blue sage		Needle and thread
Bald spikerush		Nodding plumeless thistle
Bearded flatsedge		Northern bedstraw
Bearded wheatgrass		Nuttall's biscuitroot
Big bluestem		Olney bulrush
Blackeyed Susan		Parry's rabbitbrush
Blacksamson echinacea		Peachleaf willow
Bluebell bellflower		Pennsylvania pellitory
Blue grama		Plains milkweed
Bluegrass		Ponderosa pine
Bluejoint		Povertyweed
Bluebell-of-Scotland		Prairie blazing star
Boxelder		Prairie cordgrass
Broadleaf cattail		Prairie goldenrod
Broadleaved pepperweed		Prairie junegrass
Brome		Prairie rose	:
Broom snakeweed		Prairie sagewort
Bulrush		Prairie sandreed
Bush morningglory		Prairie spiderwort
Buttecandle		Prairie thermopsis
Canada goldenrod		Prairie violet
Canada horseweed		Prickly lettuce	:
Canada thistle		Pricklypear	:
Canada wildrye		Purple meadowrue	:
Catnip		Quackgrass
Cattail		Red falsemallow	:
Chairmaker's bulrush		Reed canarygrass
Cheatgrass		Rocky mountain juniper
Common boneset		Rough cocklebur
Common chokecherry		Rough falsepennyroyal
Common cocklebur		Roundleaf harebell
Common juniper		Rubber rabbitbrush
Common sunflower		Rush
Common threesquare		Russian olive
Common wheat		Russian thistle
Common yarrow		Sand bluestem
Creeping juniper		Sand dropseed
Creeping thistle		Sand lovegrass
Crested wheatgrass		Sand sagebrush
Cuman ragweed		Sandbar willow
Curlytop knotweed		Sandhill muhly
Desert goosefoot		Sawtooth sunflower
Desert wirelettuce	:	Scarlet beeblossom
Dotted blazing star		Scarlet gaura
Double twinpod		Scarlet globemallow
Downy phlox		Scouringrush horsetail
Dwarf juniper		Scurfpea
Eastern cottonwood		Seaside arrowgrass
Eastern marsh fern		Sedge
Eastern redcedar		Sideoats grama
Fendler threeawn		Silverleaf phacelia
Fewflower buckwheat		Silverleaf scorpionweed
Flatsedge		Skunkbush sumac
Fourwing saltbush		Slender hawksbeard
Fragrant sumac		Slender Russian thistle
Fremont's goosefoot		Smartweed
Fringed sagewort		Smooth brome
Golden currant		Soapweed yucca
Goldenpea		Spiny phlox
Golden zizia		Spotted fritillary
Greasewood		Starry false lily of the vally
Great Plains stickseed		Starry false Solomon's seal
Green ash		Streambank wheatgrass
Green needlegrass		Strict blue-eyed grass
Gypsyflower		Sun sedge
Hairy false goldenaster		Switchgrass
Hairy grama		Tall tumblemustard
Hood's phlox		Tenpetal blazingstar
Hooker's sandwort		Tenpetal mentzelia
Horsetail		Threadleaf sedge
Indian ricegrass		Thicket creeper
Iva poverty weed		Torrey's rush
Japanese brome		Tufted lovegrass
Kentucky bluegrass		Wax currant
Lanceleaf blazing star		Western poison ivy
Leadplant		Western ragweed
Lemon scurfpea		Western snowberry
Leopard lily		Western wheatgrass
Little bluestem		Western white clematis
Little-seeded ricegrass		Wheatgrass
Longleaf wormwood		White aster