EditorialRancher's fireweed wildflowers grow at Carrizo Plain National Monument in Santa Margarita, Calif., March 25, 2023. (Stella Kalinina/The New York Times)
EditorialRancher's fireweed wildflowers grow at Carrizo Plain National Monument in Santa Margarita, Calif., March 25, 2023. (Stella Kalinina/The New York Times)
EditorialRancher's fireweed wildflowers grow at Carrizo Plain National Monument in Santa Margarita, Calif., March 25, 2023. (Stella Kalinina/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Pivovar helps her sister sweep water out of Wildflower & Whisky Clothing Co. as floodwaters from Hurricane Ian covered the streets of Georgetown, S.C., on Sept. 30, 2022. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialAn attendee sitting on a bench by the wildflower meadow at the Flight 93 National Memorial looks to the sky during a memorial service for the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, near Shanksville, Pa., Sept. 11, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors walk through wildflower fields to reach the memorial plaza at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., August 30, 2021. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)