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Wild Plum (Prunus americana)

Wild Plum (Prunus americana)

by | May 25, 2021

Wild Plum (Prunus americana), Rose Family (Rosaceae). Native and common in canyons, on rocky slopes, and along streams from plains to foothills on the eastern slope. Blooms from April through May. Photo by Mo...
Tufted Cryptantha (Oreocarya caespitosa)

Tufted Cryptantha (Oreocarya caespitosa)

by | May 20, 2021

Tufted Cryptantha (Oreocarya caespitosa), Borage Family (Boraginaceae). A native rare plant, G4 (globally rare but secure) and S2 (imperiled in Colorado), which grows on gypsum shale outcroppings, often in pinion Juniper woodlands or sagebrush communities in Moffat...
Tamarix_ramosissima_Mo_Ewing

Tamarix_ramosissima_Mo_Ewing

by | Apr 22, 2021

Salt-cedar (Tamarix chinensis), Tamarisk Family (Tamaricaceae), an introduced species which is found along rivers and streams, marshes, irrigation ditches and floodplains from plains to foothills on the eastern and western slopes. Blooms from May through August....
Calypso bulbosa

Calypso bulbosa

by | Apr 21, 2021

Fairy Slipper Orchid, pink form, (Calypso bulbosa), Orchid Family (Orchidaceae), grows under pinespruce trees in moist, shaded forests and along streams from fooothills to subalpine on the eastern and westerns lopes. Blooms from May through July. Photo by Scott...