Native Plant Profile Articles

Except where noted, articles originally appeared in Prince William Wildflower Society's Wild News.

Sortable DateTitle
2023-05Violets (VNPS Web)
2012-11Goldenrods: Falsely Accused?
2013-03Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
2013-09Ironweeds Not Iron-clad
2013-09New York Ironweed (Vernonia Noveboracensis)
2014-05Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
2014-09Joe-pye-weeds: Eutrochium Species
2015-05American Alumroot (Heuchera americana)
2015-09Viburnum: Common Beauty
2016-05Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
2016-09Monarda - Beebalm, Bergamot, or Oswego Tea
2017-09Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
2018-09Cardinal Flower
2018-01Spring Wildflower Life Cycle Information - Spring Wildflowers: Ecological Factors
2018-03Bloodroot: Sanguinaria canadensis
2018-05Spring Wildflowers - Underground Storage Structures, Pollination, Myrmchochory-Seed Dispersal by Ants
2019-03Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
2019-05Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
2019-07Monotropa uniflora Indian Pipe: a beautiful and unusual "thief"
2019-11Clubmosses: An Ancient and Interesting Group of "Fern Allies"
2020-01Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
2020-03Virginia Bluebells
2020-05Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
2020-09The Dog Banes of Summer? Butterfly-weed and other Milkweeds
2020-11A Parasitic Lifestyle: Beechdrops and Relatives
2021-11Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
2021-03Harbinger-of-Spring
2021-05Trilliums
2021-07White Turtlehead - Chelone glabra
2022-03Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
2022-03Cut-leaf Toothwort
2022-05Dward Crested Iris, Iris cristata
2022-07Virginia's Beautiful Magnolia Species - Native and Naturalized
2022-09The Fabulous Fabaceae or Pea/Legume Family
2019-05Jack-in-the-Pulpit Preaches Preservation (VNPS Blog)
2008-05Mayapple
2005-09New York Ironweed
2005-03Bloodroot
2005-07Indian Pipe
2005-01Grasses
2003-03Rue Anemone
2002-09Sunflowers and Sunflower-like Relatives
2002-03Golden Alexanders
2002-07Indian Pipe
2002-01Partridgeberry
2001-09Pawpaw
2001-11Strawberry Bush
2001-05Dwarf Crested Iris
2001-03Cutleaf Toothwort
2001-07Lizard's-tail
2001-01Spring Beauty
2000-09Turtlehead
2000-11Alumroot
2000-05Wild Geranium
2000-03Harbinger-of-Spring
2000-07Bugbane
2000-01Hepatica
1999-09New York lronweed
1999-11Witchhazel
1999-05Violets
1999-03Troutlily
1999-07Beebalm
1999-01Skunk Cabbage
1997-03Pussytoes
1996-03Bellworts
1995-09Viburnums
1995-03Redbud
1995-01Serviceberry
1994-09Blazing Stars
1994-05Golden Alexanders
1994-03Rue Anemone
1994-01Closed Gentian
1993-05Early Saxifrage
1993-03Violets
1993-07Sundews
1992-09Sunflowers and Sunflower-like Relatives
1992-05Wild Geranium
1992-03Golden Ragwort
1991-03Toothwort
1990-09Parasitic Lifestyles: Beechdrops
1990-11Strawberry Bush
1990-05Dwarf Crested Iris
1990-03Trilliums
1989-09Asters
1989-05Columbine
1989-03Twinleaf
1989-07Monarda
1988-09Ironweed
1988-03Virginia Bluebells
1987-11Fall Composites
1987-05False Solomon's Seal
1987-03Wild Ginger
1987-01Spicebush
1986-05Flowering Dogwood
1986-03Squirrel Corn, Dutchman's Breeches, Bleeding Hearts
1986-07Evening Primroses and Sundrops
1985-11Sumacs
1985-05Spring Beauty
1984-09Goldenrod
1984-05Pinxter-flower
1984-07Chicory
1983-11Witch-Hazel
1983-05Jack-in-the-Pulpit
1983-03Bloodroot
1983-07Black-eyed Susan
1982-09Cardinal Flower
1982-06Butterfly-Weed
2024-07Monarda - Beebalm, Bergamot, or Oswego Tea
2024-09Joe-pye-weeds: Eutrochium Species
2024-11Partridgeberry, Mitchella repens
2025-05Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum