What:

The U.S. Postal Service will celebrate Mountain Flora with four Forever stamps featuring artwork of a purple pasqueflower, an orange-red wood lily; a bright yellow alpine buttercup; and a dark pink Woods’ rose. The First-Day-of-Issue (FDOI) event will be held in the lobby of the Jackson Main Post Office in Jackson, WY. The FDOI event for the Mountain Flora Forever stamps is free and open to the public.

Who:

The media are invited to attend. Amy Taylor the Wyoming Native Plant Society Teton Chapter Chair, Shawn Moore the Post Office Operations Manager over Wyoming and others will be unveiling the Mountain Flora Forever Stamp.

When:

Monday, March 14, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Where:

Jackson Post Office
1070 Maple Way
Jackson, WY 83002

Background:

Celebrate the beauty of mountain wildflowers with four new stamps. Each stamp in the block of four includes an illustration of one of these flowers: a purple pasqueflower; an orange-red wood lily; a bright yellow alpine buttercup; and a dark pink Woods’ rose.

The artist’s hand-drawn illustrations, refined digitally, create a block-print aesthetic. The color and shape of each flower was selected for its unique beauty and to complement the block of four.

An important part of the natural world, wildflower habitats support species from butterflies and bees to birds and foraging mammals. Wildflowers grow in varied environments, including bogs and swamps, forests and woodlands, alpine meadows, mountain slopes, and coastal bluffs—even deserts.  Some wildflowers are widely distributed across the United States, while others are specific to just a small area.

Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) is distributed in the western and central U.S. It grows on mountain slopes and meadows as well as on prairie grasslands. One of the earliest blooming wildflowers, the common name pasque refers to Easter or Passover, when the flowers first begin to appear.

Woods’ rose (Rosa woodsii) is native to parts of the western and central U.S. and blooms in late spring through July on stony slopes and in mountain forests, among other habitats. This fast-growing, long-lived perennial plant forms dense thickets of thorny shrubs that can reach 10 feet in height.

Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum) is a red or red-orange, summer-blooming flower. The native plant grows in many habitats, including mountain meadows in western states and the grassland prairies of the Great Plains. It is rarer in the eastern part of the country. The bulbs were once gathered for food by Native Americans.

Alpine buttercup (Ranunculus adoneus) is one of more than 330 species of the Ranunculaceae family that bloom in the U.S. The flowers appear in spring in mountain meadows near the edge of melting snows and continue to bloom into summer. The native plant is found in several western states.

Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with original art by Lili Arnold. The Mountain Flora stamps are being issued in booklets of 20 and coils of 3,000 and 10,000 Forever® stamps. These Forever stamps will always be equal to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.

Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Post Office locations nationwide.

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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