National Wildflower Week aims to protect habitat
The week of May 23 29 is National Wildflower Week highlighting the danger to wildflowers from habitat destruction due to homes parking lots and shopping centers. Wildflowers grow naturally in deserts forests and mountains and in fields roadsides and yards. They come in many shapes sizes and colors and should not be picked or collected. photography drawing smelling and observing are encouraged. National Forest Service Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service sponsor the observance stressing benefits to ecosystems and potential cures and foods from wildflowers.