Pinnate Moonwort (Botrychium pinnatum)
Pinnate Moonwort (Botrychium pinnatum), Ophioglossaceae (Adder’s Tongue Family) is a fern ally, native, but imperiled (S2) in Colorado (but secure globally with populations from Alaska and the Canadian Yukon south to Arizona. It grows on grassy slopes, stream...
2021 Photo Contest, 1st Place Landscape Category
2021 Photo Contest, 1st Place,Landscape Category: “Scarlet Paintbrush on Shrine Ridge Trail”. Photo by Carol McGowan. The Shrine Ridge Trail is located at exit 190 off of I-70 between Frisco and Copper Mountain. It is rated as a moderate hike, 4.3 miles...
Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus)
Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus), Rose Family (Rosaceae), native and common and forming large stands on dry hillsides, often with pinyon-juniper, oaks, ponderosa pine or Douglas-fir from plains to montane on the eastern and western slopes. Mountain...