News release issued May 21, 2001, effective immediately.
For media inquiries, contact Caroline Booth Lara, Communications Specialist, (580) 224-6379.
  email: cblara@noble.org

Wildflowers: In the field and on the web

ARDMORE, Okla. - The abundant rainfall across the region since last October has brought an abundance of wildflowers this spring - arguably the greenest, most colorful spring show in several years.

Noble Foundation Agricultural Division specialists Chuck Coffey and Russell Stevens have assembled an extensive photo collection of more than 600 plants native to much of Oklahoma and north central Texas. The collection can be viewed on the Foundation's website at www.noble.org/WebApps/PlantImageGallery/index.aspx.

Some of the more common and colorful wildflower species in this region include basketflower, Plains coreopsis, blacksampson, Englemann daisy, Indian blanket, ashy sunflower, gayfeather, skeleton plant, black-eyed Susan, yellow puccoon, meadow pink, bluebells, scrambled eggs, partridge pea, purple prairie clover, Texas bluebonnet, lemonmint, spotted beebalm, blue sage, stiffstem flax, wine-cup, snow-on-the-mountain, halfshrub sundrop, tall gaura, Missouri primrose, four-point evening primrose, false gaura, passionflower, standing cypress, phlox, prairie larkspur, purple gerardia, Indian paintbrush, and purple paintbrush.

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The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, headquartered in Ardmore, Okla., is a non-profit organization conducting agricultural, forage biotechnological, and plant biology research; providing grants to numerous non-profit charitable, educational and health organizations; and assisting farmers and ranchers through educational and consultative agricultural programs.

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