Arctic Gentian (Gentiana algida)
Arctic Gentian (Gentiana algida), Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), native and common in moist subalpine and alpine meadows and usually one of the last plants to bloom in the alpine, on the Eastern and Western Slopes. Blooms July through September. Photo by Loraine...
Daisyflower (Commelina erecta)
Daisyflower (Commelina erecta), Rockrose family (Clusiaceae), Native and found along roadsides and on open prairie, on the plains on the Eastern Slope. Blooms June through August. photo by Loraine...
Penland’s Eutremia (Eutremia penlandii) in fruit
Penland’s Eutremia (Eutremia penlandii), in fruit, Mustard Family (Brassicaceae), G12S12 (Critically imperiled in Colorado and globally). Grows in the alpine on solufluction lobes in the tundra. (solufluction is a gradual processes in which a mass of soil moves...