For NYC Wildflower Week, a garden in each of the boroughs is backing a different flower and wants you to vote for the winner. Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week, explains the contest, and Evie Hantzopoulos, executive director of Queens Botanical Garden, and Richard Hayden, director of horticulture at the High Line, make the case for their boroughs' flowers.

The candidates: Giant Sunflower (Queens Botanical Garden) Butterfly Weed (High Line)Spicebush (New York Botanical Garden)Pinxter Azalea (Staten Island Museum)Wild Columbine (Brooklyn Bridge Park)More info and how to vote

NYC Wildflower Week events