Make tea from Wild Rose petals, leaves and roots.  The rosehips are very high in vitamin C and you can also make jams, syrups and jellies from Wild Rose.

Trumpet Honeysuckle is a perennial vine with green foliage and beautiful horn shaped red flowers that attract hummingbirds for a lovely display.

Sweet Violet is a herb is that can be used as a remedy to cure sore throat and tonsillitis. The sweet fragrance is popular in perfumes and cosmetics.
 

Purple Virgin's Bower

A herb that can be taken to relieve headaches. This difficult to find flower has 3 toothed leaflets and 4 purple sepals hanging from the leaf axils comprising the flower. In the fall the flower’s fruit turns to a fuzzy floss that carry the seeds on the wind.

A bright yellow flower native to the Americas grown for consumption and for oil. The huge flower heads face the eastern sun rise and to follow it slowly turning throughout the day.

Lewis and Clark collected Bitterrot during their expedition while in Montana where there are now named the Bitterroot Mountains, Bitterroot River and Bitterroot Valley and it is the State Flower. The Shoshone Indians ate Bitterroot and believed it could stop a bear from attacking.

Swamp Rose Mallow

This large perennial wildflower attracts hummingbirds and bees. It grows in damp woods, marshes, ponds, ditches, and shorelines.
 
 

Saguaro Cactus

Largest Cactus in the US, as big as trees, found exclusively in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Mexico. Home to Gila Woodpeckers and Cactus Wrens. They can live up to 200 years.

People plant Hedgehog Cacti in yards as oddities for their curious appearance. In the wild they grow in the Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub and Pinyon-Juniper Woodland) and higher life zones.