White Checker-bloom (Sidalcea candida)
White Checker-bloom (Sidalcea candida), Mallow Family (Malvaceae). Native and common along streams, in meadows, and in moist places from foothills to subalpine on the eastern and western slopes. Blooms from June through September. Photo by Lenore...
Fishhook Cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus)
Fishhook Cactus (Sclerocactus parviflorus), Cactus Family (Cactaceae), native, S3 vulnerable in Colorado. Found in open, dry places, on clay, shale, or adobe hillsides, and often with pinyon-juniper sin the simi-desert shrublands of the western slope. Blooms from...
Ute’s Ladies Tresses Orchid (Spiranthes diluvialis)
Ute’s Ladies Tresses Orchid (Spiranthes diluvialis), Orchid Family (Orchidaceae). Native and G2S2, imperiled in Colorado and globally. It was federally listed in 1992 when it was only thought to be in Colorado, but since then has been found in several western...