Soapweed (Yucca glauca)

Soapweed (Yucca glauca)

Soapweed (Yucca glauca) Agave Family (Agavaceae), Native and common in sandy places and dry slopes on the plains and foothills, and in the San Luis Valley, often found in disturbed sites, from plains to montane on the Eastern Slope. Yucca glauca is pollinated by only...
Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not ( Eritrichium nanum)

Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not ( Eritrichium nanum)

Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not ( Eritrichium nanum), a mat-forming native and common in the alpine, from subalpine to above treeline on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms from June through August. Photo by Mo...
Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), native tree, common along streams and in the mountains where it forms large clonal stands, from foothills to alpine on the Eastern and Westerns Slopes. Flowers from March through June. Photo by SW Colorado...
Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum ssp. grandiflorum). Native and common in moist meadows along the edges of melting snowbanks, and in moist spruce forests from foothills to alpine on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms from May through July. Photo by Mo...
Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides)

Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides)

Moss Phlox (Phlox muscoides), Phlox Family (Polemoniaceae), a native species found on sandy, barren soil and dry bluffs from the plains to the foothills on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms from April through...