Carbon Plants - Flowers and Weeds

Plants Found in Old Carbon and the Carbon Cemetery Over Time

Page by Bob Leathers

Wyoming Yellow Indian paintbrush (Image by Bob Leathers)

Dwarf Iris in the Carbon Cemetery (Image by Bob Leathers)

Dwarf Iris in the Carbon Cemetery (Image by Bob Leathers)

Dwarf Iris in the Carbon Cemetery, 2015. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Dwarf Iris: (Iris Pumila) Also known as Pigmy Iris. Dwarf Iris is a small flower that ranges in Central Europe. This plant is found in selective parts of the Carbon Cemetery. Garden cultivation has generated a wide variety of dwarf Iris flowers, but even in the wild, it can bloom purple, blue, white, and yellow. This plant attracts birds, like hummingbirds.
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Plains Prickly pear Cactus in the Carbon Cemetery, 2021. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Plains Prickly pear Cactus: (Opuntia polyacantha) Also known as Grizzly bear cactus, Mohave prickly pear, Hairspine prickly pear or Starvation prickly pear. Plains prickly pear is a fruit bearing cactus species native to North America. It grows in and around sagebrush on the prairie. The fruit is high in fiber, antioxidants, and carotenoids. Prairie dogs and pronghorn antelope feed on it. ​(Wikipedia)

Tufted Evening Primrose in the Carbon Cemetery. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Tufted Evening Primrose: (Oenothera Caespitosa) Also known as Desert Evening Primrose and Rock-Rose Evening Primrose. Tufted evening Primrose is a perennial that blooms from late spring to early summer with an abundance of flowers. Large, 2-3 inches wide white blossoms, with contrasting yellow stamens, open in afternoon and close the next morning. Thrives in full sun with dry to medium soil. (Wikipedia)

Didler's Tulip in the Carbon Cemetery (Image by Bob Leathers)

Dider's Tulip: (Tulipa gesneriana) Also known as Tulip and Garden Tulip. The Dider's Tulip is an ornamental bulbous plant, native to southwest Asia. Ottomans brought it to Europe in the 16th century and it instantly became popular, especially amongst Dutchmen. Dider's Tulip's showy flowers are usually red or orange, but there are also varieties with purple, pink or yellow flowers. (Wikipedia)

Carpet Phlox in the Carbon Cemetery. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Carpet Phlox in the Carbon Cemetery. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Carpet Phlox: (Phlox hoodii) Also known as Moss Phlox, Spiny Phlox and Hood's Phlox. It is a mat-forming flowering plant indigenous to western North America. It is frequently found in the company of sagebrush. You will see it popping up in early springtime, just as winter's last vestiges are disappearing from the landscape. ​(Wikipedia)

Sanddune Wallflower in the Carbon Cemetery. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Sanddune Wallflower: (Erhsimum Capitatum) Also known as Western Wallflower, Prairie Rocket, Coast Wallflower and Alpine Wallflower. Sanddune Wallflower is a wallflower species native to North America. This plant is called Sanddune Wallflower because it grows on walls and fences. It also grows in rocky soil and clay soils. This plant attracts pollinators like bees. ​(Wikipedia)

Rose Heath in the Carbon Cemetery. (Image by Bob Leathers)

Rose Heath a species of Chaetopappa. (Chaetopappa ericoides) Also known as Baby White Aster and Heath Leaved Chaetopappa. The petals of the Rose Heath are commonly curled downwards in the evening, and they straighten again in the morning. This daisy like wildflower grows in semi-desert or desert rocky slopes across the midwestern United 
States and norther Mexico. (Wikipedia)

Field locoweed in the Carbon Cemetery (Image by Bob Leathers)

Field Locoweed: (Oxytropis Campestris) Also known as Yellow Oxytropis, Meadow Beaked Milk Vetch, Saint John River Oxytrope, Yellow Milk Vetch, Northern Yellow Point Ditch and Cusick's Locoweed. Field locoweed can cause loco disease in cattle that ingest it. Symptoms include paralysis, reduced appetite, lack of reproductive abilities and impaired vision. Swainsonine, the chemical compound that causes these adverse effects, has shown great promise as an anti-cancer drug. (Wikipedia)

Spreading Phlox in the Carbon Cemetery (Image by Bob Leathers)

Spreading Phlox is a species of Phloxes: (Phlox Diffusa) Spreading Phlox is a plant species that grows well on rugged mountain slopes, sagebrush plains and in rocky regions. "Phlox" comes from an Ancient Greek word for "flame." "Diffusa" is a Latin term meaning "spread out" or "wide." (Wikipedia)